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A letter said members of the armed services are bound to defend the constitution. Washington: The Pentagons top generals condemned the January 6 attack on the Capitol by Trump supporters on Tuesday, telling US troops that it was an illegal assault on the constitutional process. "The violent riot... was as direct assault on the US Congress, the Capitol building, and our Constitutional process," said a memorandum signed by all eight members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, led by the chairman, Gene...

The military needs to learn the right lessons and adapt Peter Feaver January 13 Members of the National Guard stand at attention after arriving on Capitol Hill on Jan. 12, 2021, in Washington. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images) After every shocking security event, it is always possible to reconstruct the warnings and indicators available beforehand to make what happened look obvious and inevitable. Once reconstructed this way with the benefit of 20-20 hindsight, the quest...

Read more about Thousands of armed Trump patriots plotting to surround Capitol: Lawmaker on Business Standard. A week after the violence in US Capitol, a member of the Congress has said that thousands of armed pro-Trump supporters are plotting to surround the Capitol ahead of Bidens swearing-in ceremony

https://sputniknews.com/us/202101131081755633-thought-i-was-going-to-die-rep-ocasio-cortez-opens-up-on-traumatising-capitol-riot/ Democratic firebrand Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was among the first members of Congress to call for incumbent President Trump to be impeached for “inciting the insurrection” in the wake of the deadly rampage on Capitol Hill last week. Democratic NY Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has shared with her Instagram subscribers that she had the impression she wouldn’t liv...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Federal authorities have formed a strike force of attorneys and investigators from across the country to build "Sedition and Conspiracy" cases against some of those involved in the U.S. Capitol attack, who they believe were organized to incite a rebellion. More than 70 people have already been charged with lesser crimes. But Illinois Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL 8th District) told the ABC7 I-Team that what happened was the result of an FBI intelligence failure. "There...

A top Democratic leader in the United States has demanded that all those who stormed Capitol Hill last week be put on the countrys no-fly list. "We cannot allow these same insurrectionists to get on a plane and cause more violence and more damage. These individuals are threat to the homeland as defined by the law allows this. And they should be placed on the no-fly list," Senate Minority Leader Senator Chuck Schumer told reporters in New York. Saying his party colleagues were calling on the ...

Trump, barred from Twitter, for the first time lacks the ability to aim angry tweets. (File) The push for an unprecedented second impeachment of President Donald Trump took a bipartisan turn Tuesday, when several senior House Republicans joined the Democratic effort to remove him for his role in inciting a mob to storm the Capitol last week. The White House braced for more defections. Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, the third-ranking House Republican, and Rep. John Katko of New York, the top Republ...

A former Nashville bartender that was seen carrying zip ties among the mob of people who invaded the U.S. Capitol last week will remain in custody until his next hearing on Jan. 19.

Read more about 20,000 national guard with lethal weapons being deployed in Washington on Business Standard. As many as 15,000 have already been deployed in and around the Capitol Hill and another 5,000 would be added around the January 20 inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden

By Elizabeth Culliford (Reuters) - Alphabet Incs Google will pause political ads on all of its platforms starting Jan. 14, following last weeks violence at the U.S. Capitol, according to an email to advertisers seen by Reuters. The email said the action was taken "following the unprecedented events of the past week and ahead of the upcoming presidential inauguration." It said Google was planning to keep this policy in place until at least Jan. 21, the day after the inauguration. Google had ...