It could be a lot worse than we already think

One current Metro D.C. police officer said in a public Facebook post that off-duty police officers and members of the military, who were among the rioters, flashed their badges and I.D. cards as they attempted to overrun the building.

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It remains unclear why the police force was not prepared for the protests to escalate, given the repeated and explicit threats by many of Trump’s supporters — as recently as Tuesday night — that they were prepared to use force if necessary to enter the Capitol.

  Politico

Acting U.S. Attorney Michael Sherwin has said that materials stolen during yesterday's coup attempt on the U.S. Capitol by rioters supporting President Donald Trump's attempts to overturn the election may constitute a breach of national security.While the rioters ostensibly sought to stop Congress from certifying the Electoral College's final votes to seat President-elect Joe Biden, the theft of national security information could make rioters potentially subject to charges of seditious conspiracy in addition to rioting and insurrection, Sherwin said.

"Materials were stolen, and we have to identify what was done, mitigate that, and it could have potential national security equities," Sherwin said. "We just don't know the extent of that damage at this point—if there was damage, we don't know the extent of that."

Specifically, Sherwin said that rioters stole electronics from U.S. senators' offices that could've contained sensitive information relating to domestic and foreign intelligence and other sensitive matters, Reuters reports.

During the break-in to the federal building, rioters rifled through desks in the Senate chambers and stole artwork. Others entered congressional members' offices. Pro-Trump rioters vandalized Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office and ransacked the office of Republican Oklahoma Senator Jim Inhofe.

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"Certainly it is likely that hardware has gone missing from the Capitol complex when you have an uncontrolled entry," Daniel Schuman, a former Congressional testifier on technology issues, told Forbes. "Unauthorized access to any technology is dangerous, and we don't know who came along with the mob inside the building."

While the rioters ostensibly sought to stop Congress from certifying the Electoral College's final votes to seat President-elect Joe Biden, the theft of national security information could make rioters potentially subject to charges of seditious conspiracy in addition to rioting and insurrection, Sherwin said.

  MSN

Is their god Donald Trump going to pay their legal bills?

Oh, wait. He just threw them all under the bus.