that in just a moment. but first, let s talk about the sedition trial that s happening today after a break for the holiday weekend, the day, federal prosecutors in washington, d. c., resumed prosecuting a case against five members of the oath keepers on charges of seditious conspiracy, or trying to overthrow the government. last week zeroed in on the group s founder, stewart rhodes. but today s former afghanistan veteran. her name is jessica watkins. introduced evidence that watkins discussed cutting off pool cues to serve as antifa smasher is. she sought to recruit and train people to join the oath keepers. if it convicted of seditious conspiracy, watkins and her fellow defendants face up to 20 years behind bars. there s been a lot of wrangling on the radar. but today s trial is important because it s another example of individual accountability. and this, case accountability for a small group that s not tweens flicked significant damage. individual accountability do
on charge of seditious conspiracy trying to overthrow the government. last week, the group focused on the founder stewart rhodes. but today focused on afghanistan veteran, jessica watkins. and she cut off pool cues to serve as antifa smashers january 6th. if they re convicted of seditious conspiracy, watkins and her fellow defendants each face up to 20 years behind bars. now, there s been a lot of legal wrangling on the radar lately, but this trial is incredibly important because it is yet another example of individual accountability. in this case, accountability for a small group that sought to inflict significant ghdamage. at the same time, accountability does not get to the root of the problem. let s take the case that happened to d.c. police officer michael fanone on january 6th. i should warn you some of what we re about to show is graphic. if you don t want to see it, now is your chance to turn away. this is the image that made officer fanone famous. it s a snapshot tak
the situation left those protecters exposed and it did not take a complex attack to rob 11 marines, one sailor and one soldier from the life they deserved. the suicide bomber equipped with 20 pounds of military grade explosives and on august 26th for the airports near abby gate sending ball bearings in every direction and the pentagon determined at the time given the scene, there was no preventing the attack and cory mills does not buy that saying the biden administration had eight months to prepare a smooth departure from afghanistan and mills introduced writing the fact that it had two entire years without any members of this administration being held unaccountable and unfathomable and the resolution calls for impeachment of defense secretary lloyd austin and along with other high level officials and ignored intel that americans and allies would be left behind and put in harm s way. five days after the bombing and
the campaign to turn his listeners against jews which he blamed for communism. by 1938, his anti-semitic rants turned into a call for culture. called the christian front. here s my colleague, rachel maddow, and what happened next. in the fall of 1939, a dozen cans of cordite, military grade explosives went missing from the 165th infantry division of the new york national guard. a dozen cans of cordite, about 1500 rounds of ammunition as well. those explosives and that ammo went missing because the commander of a new york national guard machine gun company took that stuff and gave it to the christian front. the christian front by then, had started to prioritize the recruitment of new members who had military training and military connections. they decided to escalate their own military training and their own arsenal of weapons. by then father coughlin s
bomb parts include high military grade explosives. the intention was to build a bomb and place it in or on board a flight on july 15. what s new and really concerning here is that isis is essentially shipping do-it-yourself bomb kits to extremists in the west. now, as you know, and we ve covered, building those powerful bombs from scratch is probably one of the most difficult things for extremists, but what this plot shows is that isis is making it easier for them. again, flying those partially assembled components to the west, then talking them through the final steps. police say that this device was in luggage that was supposed to be checked, but at no stage did it actually get past airport security. the australian police didn t elaborate as to why this attack never did proceed as planned, but the other part of this plot, brooke, involved a plan to release this toxic gas in public. the two men involved, they have