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Foreign Intelligence Briefs

Recognize This Patriot? Instagram Account Seeks to Identify US Capitol Insurrectionists

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Is it possible to believe in due process while also delighting in seeing the people who raided the US Capitol get publicly outed? I don’t know for sure, but Instagram account @homegrownterrorists makes it feel OK. Having never taken note of the 2011 Canucks Riot (when hundreds of our own morons filmed and photographed themselves assaulting people and destroying property), these racist insurrectionists made the same mistake, proudly sharing their participation in the Capitol assault on social media for all to see while also providing evidence to be used in their own prosecutions. Some of my faves to date…

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