After the leader of the Proud Boys was exposed as an FBI asset, we are now finding out that a top leader of the Oath Keepers also had connections to the FBI.
TIME:
A man who authorities say is a leader of the far-right Oath Keepers militia group and helped to organize a ring of other extremists and led them in the attack last month at the U.S. Capitol has held a top-secret security clearance for decades and previously worked for the FBI, his attorney said Monday.
Thomas Caldwell, who authorities believe holds a leadership role in the extremist group, worked as a section chief for the FBI from 2009 to 2010 after retiring from the Navy, his lawyer, Thomas Plofchan, wrote in a motion urging the judge to release him from jail while he awaits trial.
The defense said Caldwell, who has denied being part of the Oath Keepers, has held a top-secret security clearance since 1979, which required multiple special background investigations, according to Plofchan. Caldwell also ran a consulting firm that did classified work for the U.S. government, the lawyer said.
“He has been vetted and found numerous times as a person worthy of the trust and confidence of the United States government, as indicated by granting him Top Secret clearances,” Plofchan wrote.
Most section chiefs within the FBI rise through the ranks of the bureau and it is unclear whether Caldwell would’ve been directly hired for that position or whether he held any other positions with the bureau. The FBI did not immediately comment Monday evening and Caldwell’s lawyer didn’t immediately answer questions about his client’s work.
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Charging documents show messages between Caldwell and the others about arranging hotel rooms in the Washington area in the days before the siege. In one Facebook message from to Caldwell, one the others says: “Will probably call you tomorrow … mainly because … I like to know wtf plan is. You are the man COMMANDER.”
Authorities say the Oath Keepers communicated during the attack about where lawmakers were. At one point during the siege, Caldwell received a message that said “all members are in the tunnels under the capital,” according to court documents. “Seal them in turn on gas,” it said.
Other messages read: “Tom all legislators are down in the Tunnels 3floors down” and “go through back house chamber doors facing N left down hallway down steps,” according to court documents.
Caldwell is among roughly 200 people charged so far in the siege for federal crimes such as disrupting Congress, disorderly conduct and assault. A special group of prosecutors is weighing whether to bring sedition charges, officials have said.
Several members of the Proud Boys, a far-right, male-chauvinist extremist group that seized on the Trump administration’s policies, have also been charged with conspiracy and accused of working together during the siege.
Basically these FBI-controlled groups were in Washington DC to advance the media narrative that normal patriotic supporters of Donald Trump are domestic terrorists. That’s why the Oath Keepers people were using all this weird lingo in their communications and were doing this on Facebook of all places.
But the gist of this is that the two main groups that are being charged with this Capitol storming conspiracy had connections to the FBI.
We had a similar situation with the Alt-Right. Following the events in Charlottesville, many Alt-Right leaders were either exposed as government assets or were later coerced into becoming assets.
There’s always been fake right-wing groups that have either been setup or infiltrated by the federal informants. But the full extent of this type of activity was never really known until now.
We should expect this type of chicanery to continue with fake right-wing groups much like we saw with Al-Qaeda during the 2000s. The Harris-Biden regime needs to justify their existence by claiming they are keeping the people safe from domestic terrorists. But since this threat doesn’t actually exist, they have to manufacture it and keep people in a state of perpetual fear.
