A new report says that the FBI had people on the ground in places like Portland that have witnessed a typical sequence of riots in recent years. The foundation has some questions about the legitimacy of "Feds" being among Antifa groups, just like the inquiry being asked about the Capitol riot in DC.
During "J20" (Inauguration Day 2021), Portland and Seattle Antifa seized the moment with street-side protesting. Their statement was that activists' discontent would continue to plague despite Trump losing the White House.
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"We are ungovernable" read one sign amidst the group of Portland Antifa, numbering around a couple hundred in total.
In a story first posted by The New York Times, the outlet confirms that FBI and federal law enforcement were carrying surveillance in real-time.
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The outlet says at least four federal agents have been involved in testimony against the rioters they followed during the demonstration. They secured their arrests at the time for property damage or other violent crimes.
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It also involved cases directly around November 2020 election time. According to the Times report, an undercover FBI agent was at this Starbucks "in a plainclothes surveillance capacity." The Starbucks had broken windows and was doused with flammable liquid.
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Special agent Renn Cannon was involved with the FBI’s monitoring of Portland protests throughout 2020 and until he left earlier on in 2021, and he recognized the ethical concerns about protecting protected First Amendment rights.
"I thought a lot about what is allowed under the Constitution. How do you do surveillance effectively, safely and legally? That was something we spent a lot of time on," Cannon told the outlet.
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Federal authorities collected their bearings after former President Trump demanded that kind of workforce during the Summer 2020 siege of Portland’s federal courthouse.
The current public address covering Jan. 6 has people debating how much involvement federal law enforcement had in the events that day. While the FBI found "scant evidence" of central coordination of a significant effort to overturn the 2020 election results – informants mingled among Right-wing activists feeding information back to the agency.
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"At all times, our focus was on those planning or committing significant criminal activity or acts of violence," said Kiernan L. Ramsey, currently in charge of the FBI's Portland branch.
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The swiftly changing criminal justice system means that while cops might detain over 1000 people, that narrows down to "more than 200 people" facing charges, but with another half of those cases being dismissed because of a lack of evidence, per the report.
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