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How to Catch an Insurrectionist

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🗓️ 1 November 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

The FBI was overwhelmed trying to ID people who stormed the Capitol on January 6th. An online group picked up the slack and helped catch hundreds of rioters.  Guest: Ryan Reilly, Justice reporter at NBC News, and author of Sedition Hunters: How January 6th Broke the Justice System. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

If you want to get a sense of how massive the federal investigation into January 6th is,

0:12.7

here's something to keep in mind.

0:15.1

The FBI, they are still arresting rioters more than two years later.

0:22.9

These are people they've known about for months.

0:25.8

People like Daniel and Peyton Valdez, who just got charged in the last few days.

0:31.5

Daniel's Peyton's dad.

0:33.3

They traveled to D.C. from Colorado.

0:36.0

Daniel took pictures of his son inside the Capitol.

0:39.7

In one snapshot, Peyton is holding up a riot shield that's been dropped on the floor.

0:45.1

He's cracked open a beer.

0:47.2

There's even this one video of Peyton online telling the camera,

0:51.0

the next time we come back, it ain't going to be effing unarmed.

0:54.6

That's for goddamn sure.

0:56.8

Afterwards, he texted a few friends.

1:00.1

And it looks like they said like, oh, looks like we're going to be arrested.

1:03.8

Yes, yes.

1:05.0

There's a lot of comments like that.

1:07.0

Yep, and then you eventually will.

1:08.6

But like, that's the weird thing where I think a lot of

1:11.0

people probably, it must be really unsettling if you went into the Capitol and you don't know

1:16.3

when this knock on your door is going to come. If it surprises you that the FBI is still

1:22.4

hauling people like this in front of judges, years later, Ryan Riley, who's a justice reporter over at NBC News,

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