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Speaker 1: Just over four months later, on January six, many of

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Speaker 1: the stories of officers who fought tooth and nail against

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Speaker 1: like Harry Dunn and Sergeant Gonell fought heroically, but a

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Speaker 1: How comes so many cops were part of the mob.

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Speaker 1: From the team's at Cool Zone Media, I Heart Radio

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Speaker 1: and novel This is the Assault on America Episode seven,

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Speaker 1: The Lost Cause m the first Black Lives rally in

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Speaker 1: Penny Edwards Blue grew up in Franklin County in the

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Speaker 1: also elation. There was dancing. Do you remember that rash

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Speaker 1: at heart. In a photo from the rally, Bridget stands

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Speaker 1: Police and the People United. Everyone is smiling. Seven months later,

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Speaker 1: where he covers politics in Franklin County. Franklin County has

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Speaker 1: To his surprise, Sergeant Robertson and Officer Fracker were willing

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Speaker 1: Robertson became increasingly outspoken on Facebook. His words here, as

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Speaker 1: actor being disenfranchised by fraud is my hardline. I sent

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Speaker 1: Like his colleague, Officer Fracker, Sergeant T J. Robertson is

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Speaker 1: Civility has left me. I'm tired of always taken the

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Speaker 1: I'll follow the path our founders gave us. Redressed grievances,

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Speaker 1: I spent the last ten years fighting an insurgency in

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Speaker 1: day after we shall see. So how did the peaceful

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Speaker 1: it would be pretty astounding if he saw no violence

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Speaker 1: They simply walked in and walked out. They really really

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Speaker 1: Anybody who's familiar with the case who hears me say that,

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Speaker 1: But they swore that they had done nothing wrong, that

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Speaker 1: they were just participating in a protest. On January eight,

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Speaker 1: Robertson took to Facebook to celebrate his participation in the

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Speaker 1: in d C. One six one. The only voice these

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Speaker 1: people will now listen to is violence, So respectfully, buckle

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Speaker 1: that post, by the way, is it all caps? And

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Speaker 1: there's more. The picture of senators cowering on the floor

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Speaker 1: thing I've seen in my life. Wants for real, you

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Speaker 1: people actually realize who you work for. For his part,

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Speaker 1: Officer Fracker shared a video with friends on Facebook saying

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Speaker 1: current economic and political climate fueling resurgence and radicalization and recruitment.

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Speaker 1: Here it is. The right wing media machine painted the

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Speaker 1: report as a partisan attack on the political right. Speak out,

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Speaker 1: got denounced as a political tool that was being used

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Speaker 1: to demonize ordinary conservatives and good old fashioned patriots. Their

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Speaker 1: somebody who might simply just disagree with the Obama administration.

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Speaker 1: Darryll's analysis of how the fire right targets former soldiers

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Speaker 1: on veterans right wing right wing extremist Act. For example,

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Speaker 1: they would define it as people that maybe think we're

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Speaker 1: not controlling our borders, people that are pro life pumper

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Speaker 1: stickers concerned. This is nothing more than concerned Americans exercising

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Speaker 1: their First Amendment rights, and the left and the ovamb

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Speaker 1: administration is clearly trying to take it away. Extremist for

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Speaker 1: saying in God we trust. Daryl watched the backlash play

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Speaker 1: out on his TV. Really, it was actually kind of

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Speaker 1: shocking and surreal to sit there and see people spinning

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Speaker 1: it politically. We have a Department of Homeland Security equating

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Speaker 1: you know, our domestic terrorism with you know, the vets

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Speaker 1: they're more concerned with the threat here at home than

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Speaker 1: they are the threat abroad. I was conservative Mormon, third

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Speaker 1: generation Republican when I wrote that report, and they were

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Speaker 1: trying to say it was some sort of of a

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Speaker 1: media fallout, Daryl trusted his bosses to back him. My

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Speaker 1: leadership at DHS, they knew the type of analysts I was.

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Speaker 1: They knew that I did good work. But days later,

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Speaker 1: Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano made a public apology to

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Speaker 1: veterans for the report, and behind the scenes things changed drastically.

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Speaker 1: What happened with this political firestorm is they immediately shut

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Speaker 1: down all the valuable work that we were doing, training

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Speaker 1: that we were giving, all of the intelligence reporting, finished

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Speaker 1: intelligence that we were working on came to a stop.

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Speaker 1: Darrel was told that it's just a temporary measure until

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Speaker 1: the controversy dies down, but that was just a cover

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Speaker 1: to reorganize, to dismantle the team, reassigned us to do

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Speaker 1: other work. By two thousand and ten, there was nobody

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Speaker 1: of work on the level that we were doing earlier.

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Speaker 1: Not long after Daryll quit and found a job in

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Speaker 1: the private sector, he felt unmoored politically and personally. You know,

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Speaker 1: that really caused me to do a lot of self reflection.

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Speaker 1: So today I'm a different person than I was, you know,

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Speaker 1: ten eleven twelve years ago. Because of that experience, a

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Speaker 1: lot more moderate, tolerant, and more independent than I ever been.

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Speaker 1: Darryl sounded the alarm for what we saw on January six,

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Speaker 1: twelve years early, but he was shouted down. Today, the

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Speaker 1: number of right wing plots and attacks have surpassed the

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Speaker 1: peak they reached in the mid nineteen nineties. Right Wing

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Speaker 1: terrorism accounted for over of all terrorist plots and attacks

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Speaker 1: in the United States between January and May, according to

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Speaker 1: the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Darrell believes that

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Speaker 1: to truly break the side ale of far right radicalization

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Speaker 1: in the United States, something significant needs to change. Conservative

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Speaker 1: voices need to get on board. If I can call

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Speaker 1: out this threat being a conservative, Mormon Republican, why can't

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Speaker 1: my fellow Republicans and Congress do the same. And I

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Speaker 1: still challenge them to this day to do the right

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Speaker 1: thing and to call out this threat and to condemn it,

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Speaker 1: because failing to do that has allowed these groups to proliferate,

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Speaker 1: and it actually emboldens these people. For Penny seeing the

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Speaker 1: violence of the far right play out on the ground,

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Speaker 1: and Daryl trying to stop far right attacks as a

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Speaker 1: senior member of Law Enforcement in Washington, the Capital Riot

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Speaker 1: did not come out of the blue. For Penny, the

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Speaker 1: riot and it's subsequent retelling is an eerie echo of

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Speaker 1: the Lost Cause narrative that the Civil War was about

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Speaker 1: states rights, not upholding slavery. In both cases, violence has

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Speaker 1: whitewashed his noble patriot is m For Darryl, the conservative backlash,

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Speaker 1: which hampered efforts to tackle right wing domestic terrorism and

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Speaker 1: painted his vital report as a left wing attack, laid

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Speaker 1: the groundwork for a far right surge on January six.

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Speaker 1: In both cases, the truth about oppressive, racist, or otherwise

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Speaker 1: radical right forces is obscured by a story that makes

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Speaker 1: any attempt to call them out and attack an ordinary,

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Speaker 1: well meaning conservatives. In my home of Portland, Oregon, I've

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Speaker 1: seen the effects of this first hand. Violent rallies like

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Speaker 1: the one we heard at the start of this episode

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Speaker 1: where my hand was broken by a proud boy, are

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Speaker 1: now a regular occurrence. If you've only caught occasional hazy

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Speaker 1: stories from our city on the news, you've likely missed

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Speaker 1: a key part of the story, which is that time

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Speaker 1: and again Portland police have sat by and allowed proud

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Speaker 1: boys to drive through town beating unarmed protesters and shooting

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Speaker 1: pedestrians with paintball guns. This permissive attitude made Portland a

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Speaker 1: safe place for these groups to get experience and test

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Speaker 1: tactics before rioting in places like Washington, d C. On

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Speaker 1: December twenty one, armed far right protesters breached the windows

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Speaker 1: of the Oregon state capital Salem, roughly an hour from Portland,

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Speaker 1: in what would prove an eerie prelude to January six.

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Speaker 1: They assaulted journalists, broke windows, and maced police officers and

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Speaker 1: their attempt to assault elected leaders. What happened in d

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Speaker 1: C on January six was not a surprise to anyone

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Speaker 1: who paid attention to the far right in Oregon. These

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Speaker 1: people have made their plans and goals clear for quite

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Speaker 1: some time. The bravery of individual capital police officers does

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Speaker 1: not change the fact that none of this would be

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Speaker 1: happening without the acquiescence and active support of law enforcement

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Speaker 1: officers around the country. In the next and final episode,

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Speaker 1: we meet the army of digital sluits who have risen

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Speaker 1: up to identify rioters. This is one of the leaders.

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Speaker 1: This is a person who has come here with all

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Speaker 1: of this information, who has a plan. In this final installment,

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Speaker 1: we go inside the digital dragnet m HM