The Ordinary Americans Who Beat the FBI at Finding January 6 Rioters: A group of online sleuths tried to help the government—despite roadblocks at every stage.

by harsh2k5

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  4. Real patriotism is not putting up with an attempted overthrow of our constitutional republic. Great for them.

  5. 22 years of “see something, say something” and this is what we get.

    > Meanwhile, “a sizable percentage” at the bureau was sympathetic to the group that laid siege to the Capitol, underscoring what Reilly identifies as the right-wing leanings of the FBI agent population. He cites one email from a former FBI employee who identified bureau officials that were “politically aligned with the president and didn’t see what the big deal was” about January 6.

    This seems like the biggest problem.

    Edit:

    On the technology side, the problem is that the way tips are submitted to the FBI is very analogue. It goes into a one-dimensional structure that isn’t index. So staff have to go through it and figure out what to index and what to toss.

    What would help is if there was a way to submit information and also supply keywords that can be automatically indexed. E.g. “January 6th, 2021” and “[name of subject in a specific format]”

    Then when they get to “Brent Bozell” they can see that 4 people submitted stuff and here it all is. Remove it from the stack and index it all together.

  9. A reminder the FBI was founded as a Secret Police and Cultural Brigade by its founder.

  10. This is the same group of folks that found the Boston bombers on Reddit, so let’s appreciate some additional due diligence.

  11. Who knew all those unemployed screenwriters on their keyboards at Starbucks were the real heroes XD

  13. No one worry, the epoch times has a *very* revealing expose coming out on how this whole this has been a conspiracy of false imprisonment.

    Should be hilarious

  15. Thanks for the help in identifying this trash. You’re help is always appreciated

  16. Is it because the FBI wasn’t super interested in finding them?

  18. True freaking Americans finding traitors. I respect them for their work in outing these Russian shoe shiners.

  19. At this point the FBI is a terrorist group. Along with the rest of homeland security

  20. Reads like something out of Rachel Maddow.

    Kudos to them, this is how you guys beat back the Nazis inside the US during WWII, with a lot of sleuthing to expose them as who they really are.

    Keep at it!

  22. Give these folks medals instead of rich assholes.

  24. The FBI protects these assholes and then they turn on them. This is so fucked.

  25. There are two supervisors where I work who not only were there but illegally entered Congress and brag about it.

    Company reps didn’t look at their phones, didn’t ask to see their social media just called them in and asked if they entered the Capital. They simply said “No” and no further action has been taken.

  26. I was impressed with the women who would trawl the Conservative dating sites, find guys who were bragging about being Jan 6 participants and then turn in their info to the FBI.

  27. You can’t “beat” someone if they’re not playing the game at all.

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