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It isn't just the capitol police who were compromised. It was a pre-planned coup that required multiple compromises in high places. That means the FBI and all other agencies who had jurisdiction over the capitol, intelligence, and terrorist activity.
People all over the world knew a coup attempt was likely, weeks in advance, solely from the extremist rhetoric on social media. I was one of them. Acting like it was a case of a few "dropping the ball" is insanity. Are we all to believe I'm more informed than a multi-trillion dollar surveillance state? If so, I offer my services as national security adviser. My salary is 5 million. Have your people call my people.
The Secret Service was in on January 6, or at least a faction within the Secret Service. Pence was aware of it. That's why he refused to get in a car with other agents and only trusted his own personal detail.
Pointedly, Pence refused to let the Secret Service evacuate him from the Capitol, and he hasn’t given a straight, full, and honest answer explaining why he refused. And there’s a LOT of unconfirmed speculation that he refused because he was suspicious that Trump has co-opted his detail, and he had no idea where they’d take him or what they’d do, which is pretty fucking insane if there’s even a shred of truth to it.
Reminds me of the scene in Goodfellas where De Niro's character tried to lure Karen into the warehouse to look at some dresses and she runs away scared because she knows she's going to be killed. I really hope Pence felt like that.