The FBI used my journalism to charge a January 6 insurrectionist. I have complicated feelings about that. insider@insider.com (Abigail Higgins) © Shannon Stapleton/Reuters Pro-Trump protesters storm into the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Shannon Stapleton/Reuters
An Insider contributor s reporting led to federal charges for one of the men who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6
Journalist Abigail Higgins explains why she declined to submit to an FBI interview about the case.
She also reflects on her own ambivalence, knowing her reporting could help send a source to prison.
When I got out of the shower one morning at the end of March, I had a voicemail from the FBI. They wanted to talk.
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Brendan Hunt’s attorneys asked a judge to block the government from arguing that his calls to kill Democratic members of Congress constituted true threats.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., left, speak with reporters on Capitol Hill last November. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
BROOKLYN (CN) A man accused of threatening to kill members of Congress, both before and in the wake of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, faced a judge in Brooklyn federal court on Monday, fighting to keep out evidence that paints him as anti-Semitic and xenophobic.
Brendan Hunt, 37, is charged with threatening to kill House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, writing on Facebook that he wants the Democratic officials to be publicly executed by a firing squad.
Eric London interviewed by Ryan Knight on Amped Up podcast
In an interview with Ryan Knight, WSWS writer Eric London spoke on the role played by the Democratic Party in promoting figures like Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, as well as on the strategic need for socialists to study the historic experiences of the working class on a world scale.
Ryan Knight and Eric London
During the interview, London explained:
The Democratic Party is not an institution which can be separated from capitalism, it cannot be separated from the American state. It is a party of the CIA, it is a party of the FBI, of the prison system, it is a party which has on its hands the blood of millions of people who have been killed by American imperialism in every corner of the world for over 100 years. It is a party that is run by the corporations and it is a party which has a special history, its role is to block the growth of social opposition. Over the course of two centuries of American capitalism,
Biden faces the reality of creating a post-Trump agenda as political confrontations set over policy proposals Published April 12, 2021
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U.S. President Joe Biden has high approval ratings, high hopes, high-spending plans – and his high-risk policies are approaching a set of
High Noon political confrontations.
Congress is back from its Easter break this week and confronts a passel of Biden proposals costing many trillions of dollars. But though the Democrats control both houses on Capitol Hill, the President’s eye-popping initiatives face opposition from Republicans and dangerous skepticism among some Democrats in the Senate, where Mr. Biden cannot afford to lose a single vote in a 50-50 chamber with Vice-President Kamala Harris providing the tipping point.
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