How is the FBI going after patriots going to make things better?
How is the FBI going after patriots going to make things better?
Within hours of the storming of the Capitol, the FBI seized thousands of phone records — including from members of Congress.
The collection effort has been met with little resistance from telecom providers asked to turn over voluminous data on the activity that day.
“No one wants to be on the wrong side of the insurrection,” a source involved in the collection effort said.
The FBI is “searching cell towers and phones pinging off cell sites in the area to determine visitors to the Capitol,” a recently retired senior FBI official told The Intercept.
The data is also being used to map links between suspects, which include members of Congress.
Within hours of the storming of the Capitol, the FBI seized thousands of phone records — including from members of Congress.
The collection effort has been met with little resistance from telecom providers asked to turn over voluminous data on the activity that day.
“No one wants to be on the wrong side of the insurrection,” a source involved in the collection effort said.
The FBI is “searching cell towers and phones pinging off cell sites in the area to determine visitors to the Capitol,” a recently retired senior FBI official told The Intercept.
The data is also being used to map links between suspects, which include members of Congress.
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