former republican rep hired friday to join Jan.6th insurrection investigation team

[butters]

WASHINGTON (AP) — A House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol has hired former Republican Rep. Denver Riggleman as a senior staff member, bringing on the one-term Virginia lawmaker as GOP leaders have criticized the panel as too partisan.

The committee’s chairman, Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson, announced Riggleman’s hiring Friday evening, saying Riggleman has a “deep background in national security and intelligence matters.” Riggleman served in military intelligence and worked at the National Security Agency before he was elected to the House in 2018. He was defeated by Republican Rep. Bob Good in 2020.

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https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-capitol-siege-a8ab6ef494926ce12cb13732156eaf2b

 

[KeithD]

Oh my god. Riggleman was my congressman. He is a dingaling (a specialist on Big Foot) and was an ardent Trumper until his backers found out that, having a license to perform marriages at his distillery, he officiated a wedding of one of his gay staffers. He voted Trump down the line for nearly two years until he got pissed that the Republican Party, selecting its candidate in the House race by convention, just didn't put his name up for a second term.

 

[butters]

Oh my god. Riggleman was my congressman. He is a dingaling (a specialist on Big Foot) and was an ardent Trumper until his backers found out that, having a license to perform marriages at his distillery, he officiated a wedding of one of his gay staffers. He voted Trump down the line for nearly two years until he got pissed that the Republican Party, selecting its candidate in the House race by convention, just didn't put his name up for a second term.

yeah, there are a lot of former trump-voters who'd not go that route now and i'm gonna cut him some slack about bigfoot since biden believes in god
apart from his personal idiosyncrasies, what are your thoughts on his relevant credentials as quoted above?

 

[YDB95]

All I know about Riggleman is he was a dependably right-wing congressman, but he did support gay marriage (for his friends at least) and that got him excommunicated. It'll be interesting to see how that plays out here.

 

[KeithD]

yeah, there are a lot of former trump-voters who'd not go that route now and i'm gonna cut him some slack about bigfoot since biden believes in god
apart from his personal idiosyncrasies, what are your thoughts on his relevant credentials as quoted above?

He has an intelligence background and opened a distillery near Charlottesville, Virginia when he retired. He turned the distillery to making hand sanitizer during the early months of the pandemic. Other than that he ran as a Trumper and voted as a Trumper (and moved out of the district to Maryland during his term), I don't know much about him. Voting Trumper in heavily gerrymandered district to negate the academic community I live in is all I need to know about him. Bob Good is even worse, of course--he's a religious nut who worked at Liberty University.

 

[butters]

He has an intelligence background and opened a distillery near Charlottesville, Virginia when he retired. He turned the distillery to making hand sanitizer during the early months of the pandemic. Other than that he ran as a Trumper and voted as a Trumper (and moved out of the district to Maryland during his term), I don't know much about him. Voting Trumper in heavily gerrymandered district to negate the academic community I live in is all I need to know about him. Bob Good is even worse, of course--he's a religious nut who worked at Liberty University.

perhaps it comes down to 'do you trust bennie thompson and liz cheney's assessment of his capabilities for this position?'
I'm not being facetious...don't know nearly enough about this stuff yet to have a really good grasp of the people involved.

if nothing else, it puts further shade on the trumpers' claims of 'non-bipartisan'

 

[pecksniff]

Oh my god. Riggleman was my congressman. He is a dingaling (a specialist on Big Foot) . . .

Do tell.

 

[butters]

All I know about Riggleman is he was a dependably right-wing congressman, but he did support gay marriage (for his friends at least) and that got him excommunicated. It'll be interesting to see how that plays out here.

so... he's likely to still be trusted by non-crazy republicans (which counts in this investigation) and he's not an entirely despicable human being given his support for gay marriage which speaks to his more openminded stance when it comes to religious practices. . that might be quite the recommendation given as he's republican. *zips lips*

 

[pecksniff]

As for bipartisanship . . . we all experimented in college, it ain't a life choice or nuttin'.

 

[CornusKousa]

so... he's likely to still be trusted by non-crazy republicans (which counts in this investigation) and he's not an entirely despicable human being given his support for gay marriage which speaks to his more openminded stance when it comes to religious practices. . that might be quite the recommendation given as he's republican. *zips lips*

Trump was the ONLY POTUS to support gay marriage before running for office.

 

[Bud_Spencer]

And "insurrection" with police doing selfies and fist-bumps with the "insurectionists."

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Screen-Shot-2021-08-09-at-8.26.42-PM-600x425.png

 

[Dribble]

Just shows how far the Republicans have fallen when a once known "crackpot" is now considered a moderate

 

[YDB95]

And "insurrection" with police doing selfies and fist-bumps with the "insurectionists."

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Screen-Shot-2021-08-09-at-8.26.42-PM-600x425.png

Which means those cops ought to be prosecuted too.

 

[Fuzzy1975]

Which means those cops ought to be prosecuted too.

*chuckles*

Which explains why the prosecution is not releasing evidence in one case, where it may be used in another.....

Bud claimed this shit in another thread, he said the video evidence was online. I asked him to link it several times. Seems the neither the defence attorney , nor Bud can find this readily available video....

 

[YDB95]

*chuckles*

Which explains why the prosecution is not releasing evidence in one case, where it may be used in another.....

Bud claimed this shit in another thread, he said the video evidence was online. I asked him to link it several times. Seems the neither the defence attorney , nor Bud can find this readily available video....

The funny thing is, I remember hearing in the first reports on 1/6 (on the morning of 1/7 in Australia) that some of the Capitol Police did show support for the insurrectionists. But even when we have reason to believe their claims are true, they still can't prove it!

 

[butters]

what's going on with this, then?

Attorney Mark Zaid demanded to know why Joseph Maher, deputy general counsel for the Department of Homeland Security, had been appointed as a senior staffer to the House select committee investigating the U.S. Capitol riot aimed at keeping Donald Trump in office.

"Maher is FACT witness for 1/6 event," Zaid said. "He helped shut down DHS monitoring of domestic extremists who led coup attempt. Why?"

https://www.rawstory.com/joseph-maher/?cx_testId=6&cx_testVariant=cx_undefined&cx_artPos=5#cxrecs_s

 

[BoyNextDoor]

And "insurrection" with police doing selfies and fist-bumps with the "insurectionists."

"fist bump"
https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-1000w,f_auto,q_auto:best/newscms/2021_15/3464587/210414-capitol-riot-mb-1540.JPG

 

[jaF0]

Three points.

One, there were in fact a few pictures of officers taking pictures with the gang. I distinctly remember seeing them. Why and what the rest of the story is/was, we don't know.

Two, there were reports of at least one officer leading or directing crowds through doorways. Claim was he/they were leading them away from Chamber and to an exterior area as a ruse to keep them from getting inside.

Three, there were claims of officers mingling with the crowd and chatting peacefully. This was after they gained entry illegally and the officers, now outnumbered, were said to be de-escalating the situation while awaiting backup. This was done in part to avoid further injuries and damage.