FBI probing if foreign governments, groups funded extremists who helped execute Capitol attack

[BlueWavePsych]

Source: NBC

As part of the investigation, the bureau is examining payments of $500,000 in bitcoin, apparently by a French national, to key figures and groups in the alt-right before the riot, the sources said. Those payments were documented and posted on the web this week by a company that analyzes cryptocurrency transfers. Payments of bitcoin, a cryptocurrency, can be traced because they are documented on a public ledger.

Separately, a joint threat assessment issued this week by the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and various other federal and D.C.-area police agencies noted that since the Jan. 6 riot, "Russian, Iranian, and Chinese influence actors have seized the opportunity to amplify narratives in furtherance of their policy interest amid the presidential transition."

Russian state and proxy media outlets "have amplified themes related to the violent and chaotic nature of the Capitol Hill incident, impeachment of President Trump, and social media censorship," the unclassified intelligence report said. "In at least one instance, a Russian proxy claimed that ANTIFA members disguised themselves as supporters of President Trump, and were responsible for storming the Capitol building."

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The examination of possible foreign influence related to the Capitol riot, which involves the FBI's Counterintelligence Division, comes after years of what current and former FBI officials say is mounting evidence that Russia and other foreign adversaries have sought to secretly support political extremists on the far right and far left

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/fbi-probing-if-foreign-governments-groups-funded-extremists-who-helped-n1254525

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Marine Le Pen? I'm betting its Russian

[thucythucy]

1. Two videographers filmed someone from Australia who was in a rage about "tyranny/"

But why would someone come all the way from Australia to participate in an American coup?

During the interview he mentioned there were also (white) demonstrators from South Africa.

How and why did they participate? Afrikaners longing for the days of apartheid, sympathetic with American white supremacists?

[Lulu KC]

8. There is also a connection between SA and Russia

I think you probably summed it up. But sometime in the last couple of years Trump tried to appeal to white SA farmers--it kind of blew up in his face--which led me to spending a little while in a Google rabbit hole trying to figure out the BRICS group. Russia is trying to bring nuclear power to SA (which they don't need or want) and is also cultivating relationships with white South African farmers actively and publicly. There is a community of Russian expats in S.A. and vice versa.

So my imagination takes me to Russia somehow being connected to this. "All roads lead" as HRC said.

Maybe after things calm down I can go back and remember more of what I learned that day!

[twodogsbarking]

2. Jared knows

ask him. For the record I am against water boarding.

[Cirque du So-What]

3. I am opposed to waterboarding as an interrogation technique

although if it’s Jared Kushner, I approve a little frat-boy hijinks.

[orangecrush]

4. ....

[mountain grammy]

5. I'm betting most of it's home grown..

like Ginni Thomas. Dear FBI, please investigate this woman!

[marble falls]

6. It wasn't a riot. It was an insurection.

[Ford_Prefect]

7. I said elsewhere this has Putin's fingerprints all over it, as does the event,

the Asshole in chief who called for it and let the mob loose, and the entire pizza-gate world of Jihadists that is now the base of the GOP...Not to mention 140-odd members of Congress & Senate.