From her five-hours-ahead redoubt across the Pond, Marcy Wheeler has this to offer the FBI, “I can understand how this might be difficult for the FBI to find, seeing as how it says a Proud Boy was ALSO working the FBI — the same FBI that for some reason had no idea that the Proud Boys were planning an insurrection.”
“Here’s a text of Rudy and someone with ties to the Proud Boys talking about how they were going to false flag the whole thing,” Wheeler tweeted early this morning:
Usually when suspects try to coordinate their stories they don’t do it in public.
Not Roger Stone
The original story in the New York Times says the call between Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and Trump adviser Roger Stone days ahead of the Capitol breach is not the conversation being investigated here:
WASHINGTON — A member of the far-right nationalist Proud Boys was in communication with a person associated with the White House in the days just before the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol, according to a law enforcement official briefed on the investigation.
Location, cellular and call record data revealed a call tying a Proud Boys member to the Trump White House, the official said. The F.B.I. has not determined what they discussed, and the official would not reveal the names of either party.
The connection revealed by the communications data comes as the F.B.I. intensifies its investigation of contacts among far-right extremists, Trump White House associates and conservative members of Congress in the days before the attack.
The same data has revealed no evidence of communications between the rioters and members of Congress during the deadly attack, the official said. That undercuts Democratic allegations that some Republican lawmakers were active participants that day.
That is likely not the entire story, but what is known now on top of the arrest of former Trump State Department appointee Federico G. Klein on Thursday.
Wheeler tweeted about the Giuliani communication back in February:
Proud Rudy keep on burnin’
To be continued.