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Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S. Capitol, says aide

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Re: Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S. Capitol, says aide

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Post by SpaceManNabs »

dukeofdoom wrote: post #552
californical wrote: post #393

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I’m sorry but if you’re a couple of police officers in a room full of literal terrorists, of course you’re going to try to be as restrained and friendly as possible. You’re horribly outnumbered. They would be murdered if they tried to take on the crowd. They needed to wait for reinforcements to arrive, and meanwhile do their best to keep the crowd from going fully insane. They managed the situation with very few peop…

If they are terrorists, would you support police opening live fire on them. Just curious. Seems like all the SJW are now advocating for a Tiananmen square massacre of unarmed protesters, just because the TV told them who to hate.

"if they are terrorists"

Re: Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S. Capitol, says aide

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jeffbee wrote: post #367
stagger87 wrote: post #253

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Hyperbole, this kind of stuff happened all the time at BLM protests. There is literally hundreds of videos of this stuff. No one was getting 'iced'.

Kindly produce a link to a video where someone at a BLM protest grabs and removes a police officer's gas mask.

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Re: Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S. Capitol, says aide

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Post by tomp »

dragonwriter wrote: post #319
davidw wrote: post #82

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Seems like it ought to be possible to have both, to some degree. I don't want the capitol to be a fortress, but they need to prevent stuff like this. I mean... the US spends massive amounts of money on the police and military. I think it should be kind of like a non-Newtonian fluid. Walk in slowly and peacefully and it's ok. Try and punch it, it solidifies quickly.

> I don't want the capitol to be a fortress, but they need to prevent stuff like this. And they would have, had the Trump Administration not denied the D.C Mayor's request the day before for the D.C. National Guard to be deployed. The Administration also delayed approval of requests by Virginia and Maryland to send Guard units to the Capitol in response to urgent calls for aid from Congressional leaders when it becam…

Do you have a source for this? I read that it was actually the other way around:

> A new report Thursday revealed that Sund turned down an offer from the FBI and the National Guard to help cops in the event of unrest.

https://nypost.com/2021/01/07/capitol-police-chief-steven-su...

Re: Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S. Capitol, says aide

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Post by slg »

xpe wrote: post #556
slg wrote: post #7

>Nancy Pelosi told fellow House Democrats that she had received reassurances about safeguards to prevent Donald Trump from launching a nuclear attack Maybe this is too political or HN, but this is the bigger news on that page. It tells me we don't have a functioning chain of command and our government is currently responding to a hard coup attempt with a soft coup which is also pretty scary. Trump should either be re…

> Nancy Pelosi told fellow House Democrats that she had received reassurances about safeguards to prevent Donald Trump from launching a nuclear attack As of ~5 pm eastern, the Reuters article [1] does not have this text. If I assume it was there at one point, what happened? [1]: https://www.reuters.com/article/BigStory12/idUSKBN29D2HA

The link was changed from a general here are the latest updates article to one more focused on the topic in the headline.

Re: Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S. Capitol, says aide

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Post by dylan604 »

megablast wrote: post #454
m463 wrote: post #274

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Maybe stealing it also removed a bunch of foreign operative bugs and keyloggers :) "How can we remove this compromised system from the building without letting on that we know " "just have a 'theft' remove it!"

That would be the machine to keylog. Space. Space. Space. Backspace. Space.

Are you creating the Election_Fraud_Evidence.doc file?

Re: Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S. Capitol, says aide

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Post by nkrisc »

eloff wrote: post #544
Forbo wrote: post #436

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For those downvoting this comment, here's a source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/capitol-si...

Hilarious, but definitely not a spy. The Russians aren't so amateur as to send an undercover agent to the US who can't speak English. If they missed the opportunity at the Capitol the other day to plant listening devices though, they must be kicking themselves now.

Seems like the kind of expendable person they might send for what is basically a smash-and-grab.

How undercover does he need to be if American citizens are openly planning online to storm the Capitol? He just needs to wear a MAGA hat and walk in with them.

Ok, probably not a spy, but who knows?

Re: Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S. Capitol, says aide

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Post by grogenaut »

ptd wrote: post #337
grogenaut wrote: post #279

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I worked on a barely do-not-distribute. Someone's spouse took a project member's laptop as hostage for alimony. Within 45 minutes of discovery and a phone call to the army equivalent of the FBI, agents were at the spouse's work and home searching for the laptop. Lucky for the spouse they thought it was the personal laptop (it was not marked) so they weren't prosecuted. This laptop could be much worse, or just fine.

What is a “barely do-not-distribute?”

Put the quotes around DND... It was mostly unimportant mostly already public do not distribute data but you can't be sure what was actually on the laptop. NOFORN would be a good exact version.

This was also years ago, and for obvious reasons I don't want to be more exact.

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Post by obmelvin »

folli wrote: post #602
eloff wrote: post #544

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Hilarious, but definitely not a spy. The Russians aren't so amateur as to send an undercover agent to the US who can't speak English. If they missed the opportunity at the Capitol the other day to plant listening devices though, they must be kicking themselves now.

I'd say Russia definitely has at least a subset of very amateurish spies. An example coming to mind is the Skripal poisoning in Salisbury, UK.

How was that amateurish? Acquiring and handling such a substance would not be easy.

Re: Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S. Capitol, says aide

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Post by wwwdonohue »

alacombe wrote: post #286
jorblumesea wrote: post #281

What an absolute mess. Whatever political spectrum you might be on, having people roaming around the halls of a sensitive government institution is not in the interest of any US citizen. Security of our institutions, elections and democracy should be a non-partisan issue.

Why would it be of the interest of any US citizen for elected officials to have any "secret" ? Full transparency should be paramount.

Let's say the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee learns via his work that a high-ranking member of the CCP is sending secrets to the United States in exchange for safe passage out of the country. Is it ultimately beneficial for that information to be made fully transparent?
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