Was there a conspiracy — even if it only involved a handful of people — at the highest levels of our government to end the American Experiment that was only defeated by sheer luck?

Congressman Ron Paul's former staffer, Elmer Stuart Rhodes, leader of the Oathkeepers, was just convicted of seditious conspiracy. But how did he and his merry band get close enough to Mike Pence and Nancy Pelosi to present the kind of deadly threat they tried to carry out?

"Is there any other point to which you would wish to draw my attention?" the Scotland Yard police inspector asked Sherlock Holmes in Arthur Conan Doyle's short story The Adventure of Silver Blaze.
"To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time," Holmes replied.
"The dog," the inspector said, "did nothing in the night-time."
"That," replied Holmes, "was the curious incident."

Why didn't the "dogs" of our federal police, investigative, and military agencies "bark" when they knew full well in advance that an armed mob was coming to the Capitol to try to overthrow our government, and that many within the mob were armed and willing to kill (and did) to try to accomplish their goal?

Why, afterward, did the Secret Service and the Department of Defense wipe their phones so the data could never be retrieved? Why has there never been a public examination of most of this?

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Wednesday's Daily Stack

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Article: "Phones of top Pentagon officials were wiped of Jan. 6 messages" by Karoun Demirjian, Jacqueline Alemany.

Article: "Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and one other found guilty of seditious conspiracy" by Sarah K. Burris.

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Audio: "Deconstructed: AOC and Mo Mitchell on the Midterms".

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