January 6th Confidential Information Revealed for the First Time
I forewarned Obama’s Justice Czar about January 6th two months in advance and asked him to notify U.S. authorities.*
* This article has been published out-of-sequence, and ideally should have been published after several other articles, particularly one called “Why Hunter Biden Matters,” which presently is not an option after I recently escaped the Russian military invasion of Ukraine to Romania and the unique set of circumstances that ordeal entailed. Suffice it to say that January 6th and Joe Biden’s Ukraine escapades have common ties for reasons I will not go into too much detail about here because, frankly, I presently do not have the luxury of time; I recently left a war zone, and it is not necessary for the basic facts this article seeks to convey: Namely Obama’s Justice Czar, Laurence Tribe, was forewarned about January 6th. (I provably informed him by email, as I will show, along with some of the details, that have never been seen before). I further instructed Tribe to get U.S. authorities involved to interdict the mayhem at the Capitol; warned about the grave risk to U.S. elections; and accurately identified a pool of suspects, some of whom the Department of Justice later charged.
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Laurence Tribe is a retired professor of U.S. constitutional law from Harvard University and was President Obama’s Justice Czar at the U.S. Department of Justice. We have know each other for decades.
I forewarned Larry Tribe, in writing, about what is now called the January 6th attack — that is, the day the U.S. Capitol was trespassed-upon and vandalized after the 2020 U.S. presidential election. I did that long before that event was called “January 6th.” The reason it was not called “January 6th” is that I told Tribe approximately 7½ weeks prior to the attack (an eternity in the law enforcement world that should have given multiple U.S. agencies ample time to intervene or adequately prepare to stop the attack).
1) Just the Facts:
I was in Ukraine in the lead-up to the 2020 U.S. presidential election. I obtained actionable intelligence that a national security threat (later to be called “January 6th”) was being prepped.
While it may not be common knowledge, U.S. embassies often are staffed with FBI special agents (called attachés) and other U.S. Department of Justice officials, but I had no luck getting through to those people. It should be common knowledge by now that the U.S. embassy in Ukraine has been problematic for some time for a variety of reasons.
Here is the timeline of my notice to Tribe: I warned Tribe on November 16, 2020. About 7½ weeks afterwards the attack on the Capitol took place on January 06, 2021, after the U.S. presidential election.
Look at that calendar, and imagine warning the fire department that an arson is being planned, and no government follow-up occurring to prevent it, to mitigate the situation, or even to investigate after-the-fact. As you will see here, I also warned who had hatched the plot to commit the crime and the unwitting accomplices in the U.S. that were being recruited.
My pre-January 6th warning contained both general and specific information and it was assembled in a hurry forcing me to leave out other specific information just to get the warning out of the door, with the understanding that the government could follow up.
2) Just the Facts: Quotes from my pre J6 memo.
I have included screenshots of the pertinent portions of my November email introduction to Tribe. I have excluded some sources-and-methods, and other information that is irrelevant.
Before we begin, it is also important to point out I have used quotation marks (“ ”). These are not decorative features of this article, but signal specific information I relayed to Tribe, in writing, with an instruction that it immediately be passed along to U.S. law enforcement.
◉ I identified the point of origin of the January 6th plot.
I introduced the memorandum I sent to Tribe as my notes on “the Kremlin’s penetration of U.S. civil society and government affairs.”
- Immediately you should understand that before January 6th occurred, I caught Russia’s intelligence services red-handed laying the groundwork for the incident.
◉ I asked Tribe to forward my notes to law enforcement.
I instructed Tribe to “forward it to whomever in the government that might follow through to verify or debunk it.”
- The reason is that this was not work that should be done by one person. If you will permit a metaphor: I could only hold a refrigerator above my head for so long and I was waiting for government to take the fridge, and place it wherever it needed to go, or I had to let it drop.
◉ I identified that it was an imminent threat with serious national security consequences.
- I warned Tribe that the “risks are huge.”
- Screenshot of pertinent introductory remarks in my November email to Tribe and my memo:
In the body of my .PDF memo to Tribe, also pictured in the screenshot above, I noted the following (again, please pay special attention to quotation marks):
◉ I identified the manner the scheme was being orchestrated.
I noted that the Kremlin appeared to have engaged in wide-scale penetration of Americans’ private data by acquiring their “IDs [personal identifying details], phone numbers, [and] email addresses.”
◉ I identified the purpose of the plot and a reasonably specific time frame.
I specifically alerted Tribe that there was an imminent risk the data “can be exploited to manipulate U.S. elections.”
◉ I identified the form the incident would likely take.
I went on to warn Tribe that the Kremlin’s preparatory acts were likely laying the groundwork to “foment confusion, chaos, acts of terror, or violent / armed civil unrest.” (This sentence is now what the public generally calls the ‘insurrection’ portion of January 6th.) Again, bear in mind that my warning to Tribe is 7½ weeks before the events of January 6th.
◉ I identified specific suspects in the U.S., some of whom I believe the Department of Justice indicted after January 6th — though they could have surveilled, arrested, or paid courtesy visits to these people in advance to prevent or mitigate the events of that day.
I also listed specific suspects who were being radicalized by the Kremlin (most of whom, I have reasons to believe, unknowingly had been drawn into the scheme). Here is what that means: The Kremlin does not have conventional forces in the U.S., so they have to utilize duplicitous means to convince people to act in ways that serve the Kremlin’s interests. The common, and not -politically-correct, term for such people is ‘useful idiots.’ In most instances, they would not even realize that a foreign intelligence agency brought the kettle to a boil, and would presume all group-action was organic. The foreign intelligence agency behind the scheme would then do its best to conceal its involvement.
It has come to my attention that after January 6th the U.S. Department of Justice indicted individuals linked to the specific pool of suspects I identified 7½ weeks before January 6th. Stated differently: I accurately identified who, in the United States, would assist in “foment[ing] confusion, chaos, acts of terror, [and] violent/armed civil unrest” long before January 6th. (Remember: The words shown in quotes are from my pre January 6th warning.)
- I deliberately have omitted that information here, but clearly it is available to the U.S. government. The “who” question was answered with reasonable specificity: In other words, it was actionable intelligence government could have acted on.
◉ What about Donald Trump?
I am sure some will be disappointed that my letter to Tribe did not start off by stating, ‘Larry, I think Donald Trump hatched a plot ... I found a copy of the pee pee tape.’
The real world is not Twitter. I saw no indication, at that time, that Donald Trump was involved: None. The set-up for January 6th occurred long before the 2020 U.S. presidential election: Donald Trump had no election results to dispute or find fault with at that time. That is not conjecture: That is fact. It is an important fact.
When I tried to make contact with the U.S. government, it was before the election. The reasonable starting assumption here is that the Kremlin laid a minefield that Donald Trump walked into, that U.S. national security agencies had a duty to protect against, and must answer for.
I am not suggesting other theories of culpability cannot be explored, or that this article exonerates Donald Trump of whatever, if anything, that he may be investigated for or charged with. I am stating that the starting point of January 6th demonstrably is long before Trump had a basis to complain about election results and that the Kremlin was involved in the set-up. Those points are hard facts because I provably predicted January 6th before it happened and I did that based on my (provably correct) observations of who was involved and the Kremlin’s involvement in stirring that pot.
What I observed and alerted Tribe about was this: The unmistakable imprimatur of the intelligence agencies of Russian Federation (collectively known as Спецслужбы) laying the required groundwork for January 6th. They were at it, doing their thing, and I was paying attention. Remember: I was in Ukraine — a hotbed for that type of activity. I also had reasons that you don’t need to concern yourselves with.
The Kremlin did not announce a time for the January 6th attack; it did not publish a date; it did not give the event a name (we did, afterwards), but I nevertheless was able to determine they were helping to orchestrate some large-scale violent event to throw the U.S. election into chaos and I forwarded my conclusions that the scheme linked-back to the Kremlin.
I warned Tribe in the hopes that U.S. officials would timely make contact to source details, to prepare, and prevent spoilation of evidence. They did nothing of the sort. That type of data (actionable intelligence) tends to disappear if not acted on, and it is incredibly difficult, time consuming and expensive, as one person, to retrace steps each time to get back to the same point to collect the same information. The U.S. government knows that, which is why it borders on the insanely stupid that they did nothing (or maybe Tribe didn’t tell them?).
- Here is another metaphor: It is like being at the bottom of the sea, and sending a message to the surface that interesting marine life has been spotted and for professional dive teams to swim down or send an oxygen tank. If they do nothing, you have to surface for air, and even if you swim to the bottom again later to try and retrace your steps, the same fish might not be there.
◉ An important question that cannot go unanswered.
Naturally, the question needs to be asked by all who genuinely are interested in election integrity and national security, regardless of party affiliation: If I could see January 6th coming (from Ukraine!) why couldn’t the CIA, FBI, and Capitol Police?
- There’s a partial answer to that: I have skills. But it is not a complete answer because, skills or not, the robust machinery of the U.S. government should be able to out-perform a single person every time.
Recently Trump noted that he offered 10,000–20,000 security personnel to be at the Capitol on January 6th to provide security, which only the Speaker of the House (Nancy Pelosi) and the Mayor of Washington D.C. can approve. If that is true, it also raises extremely serious questions. That is not a minor issue.
◉ Why did I go to Tribe rather than directly to the FBI?
I tried. Remember I was in Ukraine, which by itself complicates matters. Nevertheless, U.S. embassies frequently embed FBI special agents, and other Department of Justice personnel, in their work spaces. From my personal experience in trying to reach out to them on prior occasions, however, they were too busy covering-up the appearance of a wild-and-unhinged pattern of grand corruption among Obama/Biden officials in Ukraine.
They did not want to be contacted, and even when I contacted the U.S. they would tell me to contact their officials in Ukraine or refer me to their informational materials which generally suggested the same — it was like a merry-go-round of obfuscation and ineptitude; at some point you have to get off of that ride and try another way, so I went through Tribe. It’s like what Einstein said: ‘Insanity is repeatedly doing the same thing, and expecting different results each time.’
In reaching out to the U.S. embassy in Ukraine on prior occasions, it became clear that I was the last person person they wanted to speak to because I asked questions, understood the political landscape, and had command of objective facts highlighting brazen criminal misbehavior by U.S. officials that they did not want discussed: Staff at the embassy outwardly showed far greater interest in hobnobbing with members of the mafia, extremist groups, terrorists, and corruptionists than ordinary U.S. citizens. This behavior derives from formalized policies, customs and practices among members of the U.S. State Department and U.S. Department of Justice. This would not be the first time someone has noted that.
I expressly mentioned this problem to Tribe: “I’ve come across many U.S. officials that leave a lot to be desired when implementing policy in combating Kremlin operations aimed at the U.S.” That was was in November of 2020.
The quotations identified above conclude references to my pre January 6th email and memorandum to Laurence Tribe.
Subsequently, Tribe and I had a falling-out, when I told him: “The two U.S. presidents you have personal relationships with [Obama and Biden] unleashed an orgy of corruption in Ukraine and elsewhere….” Some other confidential information was shown to Tribe that does not need to be disclosed here. We don’t seem to see eye-to-eye on the dangers facing the country.
After the first impeachment, I also alerted the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court of extremely serious issues that I believed posed further risk. It was a lengthy memorandum and the subjects are confidential. Supreme Court justices also tend to be very private, and dare I say, ‘secretive’ (I’d know: I was trained by one). That’s the nature of the job. I will only vaguely point out some of that information here.
I mentioned to the Chief Justice:
“During the last go-around [the first impeachment], the dancing bears took over the circus while they expected you to sit in the audience and watch. This time they want you to get in the ring and dance with them.”
Whatever grounds the Chief Justice relied on to recuse himself will be left to history, but it did not surprise me that he did. It was the right call. Thankfully, the Chief Justice is not reckless when it comes to U.S. national security (and he is to be commended for that).
I further noted:
“I tried to prevent the storming of the Capitol about two months before it happened.”
I have seen fragments of what are being called the “January 6th Commission Hearings,” and I see some of the same departures from American constitutional norms resurfacing that I warned the Chief Justice about.
- Professionally-staged Soviet-style show trials do not lead to reliable outcomes, promote democracy, or enhance bipartisan confidence in the results. They generally are conducted for propagandistic purposes to portray a person as an ‘enemy of the state.’ They also tend to be used as tools for election manipulation and to influence a future jury pool to prejudice how future fact-finders rule in future proceedings. I have already seen, what I believe, to be the influence of these professionally staged propaganda shows on the impartiality of the courts, and I believe that will come back to haunt the reputations of institutions that did not take care in maintaining impartiality, develop facts through trusted and proven methodology, or wait for the dust to settle before reaching conclusions. Everyone, including judges, has seen media content about January 6th and the distribution of that information lacks anything approaching what might be called even-handedness. Show trials tend to be heavily manipulated carnivals of fraud, election manipulation, and jury tampering utilizing powerful media tools to help rubber-stamp a predetermined conclusion. This is not to suggest that the U.S. Congress cannot, or should not, investigate January 6th — only that the manner in which it is being done now is completely out-of-step with American constitutional norms and, frankly, may jeopardize U.S. national security. The people staging the January 6th Commission are pretending they are railroading some nameless and faceless unrepresented litigant — which reasonably also calls into question the ethics of those members who are lawyers — but that is not the case: Love him or hate him, Donald Trump was a U.S. President and the manner (and repetition!) of brazenly weird and unreliable proceedings may have national security consequences down-the-line.
I should note that the proper way to bring all of these facts out is not in an article, but for an independent special prosecutor to be appointed, to put all relevant (and normally untouchable) individuals under oath, and ask the questions that need to asked.
At some point, based on what I know, I believe this will be required.
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