January 6th Was Not a Secret Attack
Notes from America with Kai Wright
WNYC Studios
4.4 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Micah Loewinger, a reporter for On the Media, began monitoring militia conversations in early 2020. The potential for violence was immediately clear. And so when they staged an insurrection at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, Micah was listening and recording. But when his reporting became part of the FBI’s case against the Oath Keepers, it raised difficult questions about his role as a journalist.
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| 0:00.0 | Do you know who the occupers are? |
| 0:04.0 | Uh, yes. |
| 0:05.0 | Aren't they part of the white premises group? |
| 0:07.0 | I got a bachelor's in politics, I have no idea. |
| 0:09.0 | Yeah, tell me who it was. |
| 0:11.0 | I feel like it rings a bell, but... |
| 0:12.0 | Aren't they the one that broke in on January 6th? |
| 0:16.0 | I remember reading news accounts after that |
| 0:19.0 | from various news sources right and left. |
| 0:21.0 | All of them saying that they played a significant role |
| 0:24.0 | in the violent insurrection at the Capitol. |
| 0:26.0 | I believe recently, some of their leadership |
| 0:28.0 | was sentenced to imprisonment, |
| 0:30.0 | and I believe rightly so. |
| 0:32.0 | I know that there's a court case |
| 0:34.0 | and a lot of them are being put into jail, |
| 0:36.0 | and I know a lot of them are getting time. |
| 0:38.0 | Oh, wow. |
| 0:39.0 | It's wild. |
| 0:40.0 | I did not know that. |
| 0:41.0 | I didn't recognize the name when I first heard it, |
| 0:43.0 | but I am aware of the January 6th stuff in general. |
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