{"id":71853,"date":"2021-07-02T08:42:36","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T12:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=71853"},"modified":"2021-07-03T06:50:04","modified_gmt":"2021-07-03T10:50:04","slug":"oathkeepersgate-was-founder-stewart-rhodes-set-up-to-conduct-a-classic-fbi-cointelpro-operation-on-january-6th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=71853","title":{"rendered":"

OATHKEEPERSgate: Was Founder Stewart Rhodes set up to conduct a classic FBI COINTELPRO operation on January 6th?!<\/i><\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Federal Protection of \u201cOath Keepers\u201d Kingpin Stewart Rhodes Breaks The Entire Capitol \u201cInsurrection\u201d Lie Wide Open <\/strong><\/h1>\n

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Hey Republicans, you can crack open the entire story of January 6, 2021 (\u201c1\/6\u201d) with one simple question: what relationship do the FBI and Army Counterintelligence have with Stewart Rhodes?<\/p>\n

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Yale Law School \u201804 graduate Elmer \u201cStewart\u201d Rhodes, III.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Stewart Rhodes is the founder, boss and kingpin of the Oath Keepers.<\/p>\n

The Oath Keepers, we are told, are America\u2019s largest militia<\/a>, the most prominent antigovernment group in the United States<\/a>, and the preeminent right-wing domestic extremist insider threat<\/a> to the entire U.S. military.<\/p>\n

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Whatever the truth of these hyperbolic claims, the fact remains: the Oath Keepers are the most extensively prosecuted<\/a> paramilitary group alleged to be involved in 1\/6. Indeed, it was the alleged \u201cpre-planned assault\u201d on the Capitol by Stewart Rhodes\u2019s alleged Oath Keepers lieutenants that was used as the key talking point to try to convert the day\u2019s events from a protest into an \u201cinsurrection.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

But Stewart Rhodes is not simply a key figure in the Oath Keepers. Stewart Rhodes is<\/em> the Oath Keepers<\/a>, according to Oath Keepers board member Richard Mack.<\/p>\n

Elmer Stewart Rhodes III \u2014 a one-time Army paratrooper, disbarred Yale lawyer, constitutionalist, gun enthusiast, and far-right media star \u2014 founded the group called the Oath Keepers in 2009. Since then, he has ridden crosscurrents of American anger and strife that ran from scrubby Western deserts to angry urban protests right into the Capitol rotunda.<\/p>\n

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Mack said he and others also raised concerns about the Oath Keepers\u2019 participation in violent protests\u2026<\/p>\n

He said it had become clear that the board had no real power. \u201c[Stewart Rhodes] is the Oath Keepers. It\u2019s hard to separate the two,\u201d Mack said. \u201cIt\u2019s his organization, and he can do what he wants to do.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

Other dissenting voices found that they were no longer welcome. Jim Arroyo, the vice president of the Arizona chapter, said relations began to fray over Rhodes\u2019 insistence on total control<\/b>… [<\/strong><\/a>Buzzfeed]<\/strong><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A mere indictment of Stewart Rhodes, today, for the same conspiracy charges alleged against his underlings, would collapse the entire \u201cthreat\u201d of the Oath Keepers that the country has heard so much about. From NPR:<\/a><\/p>\n

Rhodes is the central figure of the organization. He is the founder, leader and center of gravity for the group. In theory, then, an indictment against Rhodes could lead to the group\u2019s collapse.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Justice Department argues<\/a> that Stewart Rhodes both substantially organized and activated an imputed plan to use violence, on 1\/6, in real-time, through a series of encrypted Signal messages beginning at 1:38 p.m., as Trump concluded his rally speech on the National Mall, and 62 minutes before Oath Keepers lieutenants allegedly formed a \u201cmilitary stack\u201d to rush the Capitol doors.<\/p>\n

These facts alone, as alleged, are more than legally sufficient to secure an indictment of Stewart Rhodes. We will walk you through the mountains of direct and circumstantial evidence built on top of these allegations, but readers must understand this: the only reason Stewart Rhodes is not in jail *right now* is because of a deliberate decision by the Justice Department to protect him.<\/p>\n

Indeed, it is unclear whether the FBI has even sought to search Stewart Rhodes\u2019s residence, personal belongings, or electronic devices, other than a single iPhone allegedly seized on the streets from agents in unmarked FBI vehicles in late April<\/a> (since returned). For reasons discussed below, there is good reason to suspect the FBI will pursue a tightly controlled and very limited scope of investigation into Stewart Rhodes,. Beyond that narrow scope, they may not want the information they are likely to find.<\/p>\n

Why doesn\u2019t anyone at the FBI or DOJ want him?<\/strong><\/p>\n

If 1\/6 was an \u201cinsurrection,\u201d why protect the one man who, more than any other individual referenced in the charging documents of the 530+<\/a> open criminal cases, comes closest to the media\u2019s ravenous description of a \u201clead insurrectionist?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Is it possible that the Oath Keepers, the most prominent antigovernment group in the United States, has been run, in effect, by the United States government itself \u2014 and nobody has mentioned it until now?<\/p>\n

Revolver News<\/em> generated tremendous discussion and controversy with our previous piece<\/a> exploring the possibility that some of the unindicted individuals referred to in the 1\/6 charging documents may be undercover agents or informants.<\/p>\n

With this piece, we intend to focus this discussion on a single individual, Person One; i.e., Stewart Rhodes \u2014 the leader of the Oath Keepers.<\/p>\n

If it turns out that Stewart Rhodes has had a relationship with the federal government, the implications would be nothing short of staggering.<\/p>\n

For Stewart Rhodes is not just a senior member of the Oath Keepers, he is<\/em> the Oath Keepers. \u00a0Given the fact that the Oath Keepers are the major paramilitary organization imputed (by government and media alike) to be responsible for the most serious and egregious elements of the so-called 1\/6 insurrection, it follows that it would not only be fair, but necessary to conclude that in an essential respect the 1\/6 event was planned and orchestrated by elements of the government itself.<\/p>\n

In other words, 1\/6 was not the result of an intelligence failure as FBI Director Christopher Wray, the US Senate, and the media tells us. Rather, 1\/6 was the result of an intelligence set-up.<\/p>\n

The following questions should be shouted from every megaphone, every street corner, and every Congressional lectern until the American people get full and complete answers:<\/p>\n