Lawfare Archive: A Jan. 6 Committee Staffer on Far-Right Extremism
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🗓️ 10 January 2026
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
From February 15, 2023: The Jan. 6 committee’s final report on the insurrection is over 800 pages, including the footnotes. But there’s still new information coming out about the committee’s findings and its work.
Last week, we brought you an interview with Dean Jackson, one of the staffers who worked on the Jan. 6 committee’s investigation into the role of social media in the insurrection. Today, we’re featuring a conversation with Jacob Glick, who served as investigative counsel on the committee and is currently a policy counsel at Georgetown’s Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection. His work in the Jan. 6 investigation focused on social media and far-right extremism. Lawfare senior editor Quinta Jurecic spoke with Jacob about what the investigation showed him about the forces that led to Jan. 6, how he understands the threat still posed by extremism, and what it was like interviewing Twitter whistleblowers and members of far-right groups who stormed the Capitol.
You can read Jacob’s essay with Mary McCord on countering extremism here in Just Security and listen to an interview with Jacob and his Jan. 6 committee colleagues here at Tech Policy Press.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Isabella Royal, Internet Lawfare, with an episode from the Lawfare for January 10th, 2006. |
| 0:16.0 | This week marked the fifth anniversary of the January 6th attack, in which Trump supporters stormed |
| 0:21.6 | the U.S. Capitol to block certification of the 2020 election. On the anniversary this year, |
| 0:26.8 | the Trump White House released a document casting those who broke into the Capitol as peaceful |
| 0:30.3 | protesters, prosecuted by a weaponized Department of Justice, and claiming that, quote, |
| 0:35.1 | it was the Democrats who staged the real insurrection by certifying a fraud-ridden election, end quote. |
| 0:40.7 | You can access five years of written and audio analysis on January 6th and its consequences at the January 6th project on the Lawfare website. |
| 0:48.5 | For today's archive, I chose an episode from February 15, 2003, in which Quinta Jurecic spoke with Jacob Glick, who served as |
| 0:55.8 | an investigative counsel on the January 6th committee and who focused specifically on the role |
| 0:59.9 | of social media and far-right extremism in the attack. The two discussed how the investigation changed |
| 1:05.1 | Glick's understanding of the forces that led to January 6th, how he understands the threats posed |
| 1:09.9 | by extremism today, |
| 1:11.5 | what it was like interviewing Twitter whistleblowers and members of far-right groups |
| 1:15.0 | who stormed the Capitol and more. |
| 1:25.9 | I'm Quinta Jurecic, a senior editor at Lawfare, and this is the Lawfare podcast, February 15th, |
| 1:34.3 | 2003. |
| 1:36.4 | The January 6th committee's final report on the insurrection is over 800 pages, including the footnotes. |
| 1:43.6 | But there's still new information coming out about |
| 1:46.1 | the committee's findings and its work. Last week, we brought you an interview with Dean Jackson, |
| 1:52.7 | one of the staffers who worked on the January 6th committee's investigation into the role of |
| 1:57.5 | social media in the insurrection. Today, we're featuring a conversation with Jacob Glick, |
| 2:03.6 | who served as investigative counsel on the committee |
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