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In a heartfelt plea, Debra Tice, mother of U.S. journalist Austin Tice, declared her belief that her son, missing in Syria since 2012, remains alive. She shared new information from a trusted source, making her statement public at the National Press Club. Meanwhile, the White House reveals that President Joe Biden made a dramatic reversal on his promise to let the justice system take its course, offering a pardon to his son Hunter after previously declining to intervene. The change in circumstances prompted this decision, drawing both criticism and support. In other significant developments, a U.S. federal court has affirmed a staggering $1.3 billion defamation ruling against conspiracy theorist Alex Jones for his role in spreading falsehoods about the Sandy Hook shooting, reinforcing the expected consequences of his disinformation campaign. (With inputs from agencies.)NEW YORK , Dec. 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, announces the filing of a class action lawsuit on behalf of purchasers of common stock of Kyverna Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: KYTX) pursuant and/or traceable to the Company's initial public offering conducted on February 8, 2024 (the "IPO"). A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than February 7, 2025 . So what: If you purchased Kyverna common stock you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement. What to do next: To join the Kyverna class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=32239 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email case@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than February 7, 2025 . A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation. Why Rosen Law: We encourage investors to select qualified counsel with a track record of success in leadership roles. Often, firms issuing notices do not have comparable experience, resources, or any meaningful peer recognition. Be wise in selecting counsel. The Rosen Law Firm represents investors throughout the globe, concentrating its practice in securities class actions and shareholder derivative litigation. Rosen Law Firm achieved the largest ever securities class action settlement against a Chinese Company at the time. Rosen Law Firm was Ranked No. 1 by ISS Securities Class Action Services for number of securities class action settlements in 2017. The firm has been ranked in the top 4 each year since 2013 and has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for investors. In 2019 alone the firm secured over $438 million for investors. In 2020, founding partner Laurence Rosen was named by law360 as a Titan of Plaintiffs' Bar. Many of the firm's attorneys have been recognized by Lawdragon and Super Lawyers. Details of the case: According to the lawsuit, the registration statement and prospectus used to effectuate Kyverna's IPO misstated and/or omitted facts concerning the results of Kyverna's ongoing evaluation of KYV-101, Kyverna's lead product candidate, in clinical trials. Specifically, Kyverna touted patient "improvement" in certain indicators while failing to disclose adverse data regarding one of Kyverna's trials, which adverse data was known to Kyverna at the time of the IPO. When the true details entered the market, the lawsuit claims that investors suffered damages. To join the Kyverna class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=32239 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email case@rosenlegal.com for information on the class action. No Class Has Been Certified. Until a class is certified, you are not represented by counsel unless you retain one. You may select counsel of your choice. You may also remain an absent class member and do nothing at this point. An investor's ability to share in any potential future recovery is not dependent upon serving as lead plaintiff. Follow us for updates on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-rosen-law-firm , on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rosen_firm or on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rosenlawfirm/ . Attorney Advertising. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Contact Information: Laurence Rosen, Esq. Phillip Kim, Esq. The Rosen Law Firm, P.A. 275 Madison Avenue, 40th Floor New York, NY 10016 Tel: (212) 686-1060 Toll Free: (866) 767-3653 Fax: (212) 202-3827 case@rosenlegal.com www.rosenlegal.com View original content to download multimedia: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/kytx-investors-have-opportunity-to-lead-kyverna-therapeutics-inc-nasdaq-kytx-securities-fraud-lawsuit-302330619.html SOURCE THE ROSEN LAW FIRM, P. A.
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(The Center Square) – A bill moving through the Illinois General Assembly making it easier to change a person’s name is being criticized for including a loophole for illegal immigrants. The measure would alter Illinois law and not require a person to notify a newspaper following a name change. During a recent Senate Executive Committee hearing, state Sen. Sue Rezin, R-Morris, said a flaw in the legislation could help the criminal element fall through the cracks. “There’s a loophole built into a bill that maybe started off good but potentially is helping people who are here as non-citizens, especially the non-citizens who were caught in my county with almost 6 to 7 pounds of fentanyl which is enough to kill half of Chicago, which is not insignificant,” said Morris. State Sen. Ram Villivallam, D-Chicago, the bill’s sponsor, said 24 other states have similar legislation in place. “The name change law already requires folks with criminal records to disclose that information when filing their name change petition with the judge,” said Villivalam. “Second, fraud and criminal records are detected through social security or driver’s license numbers.” The measure passed out of the committee by a 9-4 vote and could be taken up by the Illinois Senate in January. The Illinois General Assembly took up the state’s name change laws in 1993 and voted to require that people convicted of felonies wait two years after serving their sentences before becoming eligible to legally change their names. In 2007, lifetime bans went into effect designed to prevent people from changing their names to escape the sex offender registry or to commit fraud.
Watchdog finds FBI missteps before Jan. 6 riot, but no undercover agents were presentHawaii, Louisiana top list of 10 worst states to work in 2024President-elect Donald Trump is expected to offer Kelly Loeffler the job of secretary of the Department of Agriculture, two people familiar with the matter told CNN. He is set to meet with her at Mar-a-Lago on Friday afternoon, but as is always the case, nothing is final until Trump announces it. Related video above: Trump nominates Pam Bondi for Attorney General Loeffler, who briefly represented Georgia in the Senate, had fundraised for Trump during the 2024 race and raised several million dollars for his campaign over the summer when she hosted a debate watch party with Republican National Committee Chair Michael Whatley. Several of Trump’s other Cabinet picks — including Sen. Marco Rubio and Rep. Elise Stefanik — were at that party. Loeffler is also co-chairing Trump’s inauguration, as CNN previously reported. The agriculture job will likely be significant — especially as Trump’s pick to run the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has promised to assert his influence over the agriculture industry. Loeffler, appointed to the Senate by Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp over the wishes of Trump, lost her seat in a 2021 runoff to Democratic now-Sen. Raphael Warnock. Loeffler was a staunch Trump ally in Congress, saying prior to the violence on Jan. 6, 2021, that she planned to vote against certifying her state’s electoral results in support of Trump’s broader effort to upend Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory. After the U.S. Capitol attack, Loeffler backed off her objection, saying on the Senate floor: “When I arrived in Washington this morning, I fully intended to object to the certification of the electoral votes. However, the events that have transpired today have forced me to reconsider, and I cannot now in good conscience object to the certification of these electors.” In the same speech, Loeffler condemned the violence at the Capitol, calling it “abhorrent.” Loeffler was among the witnesses who appeared before the grand jury as part of Trump’s 2020 election subversion criminal case in Georgia. Before joining the Senate, Loeffler served as an executive at a financial services firm in Atlanta. She was also a co-owner of the WNBA’s Atlanta Dream. She was among the wealthiest lawmakers during her short time in Congress. Her husband, Jeffrey Sprecher, is the CEO of the Intercontinental Exchange. When running for election in 2020, she announced she and her husband were divesting from individual stocks amid sharp criticism over trades she and other lawmakers made ahead of the market downturn caused by the coronavirus. Kemp had appointed Loeffler to fill the seat of Johnny Isakson, who had left the Senate before the end of his term because of health concerns. Trump, however, had pressed the governor to appoint then-Rep. Doug Collins, who then challenged Loeffler for the remainder of Isakson’s term. The two Republicans sought to one-up the other and showcase their loyalty to Trump, moving further and further to the right in a state where Atlanta’s more moderate suburban voters were key. Collins fell short in the November 2020 election, while Loeffler and Warnock advanced to the January 2021 runoff. This year, Trump has selected Collins to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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Moving from the US to Morocco taught me a different way of living. I sundry my clothes and consume less.Pelicans vs. Thunder Injury Report Today – December 7Ahsoka ‘s first season concluded with the New Republic on the precipice of the greatest challenge to its nascent power yet seen in this period of contemporary Star Wars continuity: the return of Grand Admiral Thrawn to the galaxy far, far away, backed by dark Dathomiran magics and an undead army at his command. We’ve known for a long time that all this—and Ahsoka season two and The Mandalorian & Grogu— are building to one of the most important films in Lucasfilm’s ever-evolving Star Wars slate in the form of Dave Filoni’s “Mandoverse” team-up movie, pitting the New Republic against the Imperial Remnant. We know it’s heavily inspired by Timothy Zahn’s legendary novel trilogy Heir to the Empire , Dark Force Rising , and The Last Command ... but how exactly did Thrawn go about assaulting the galaxy in those books? Commonly referred to in the Expanded Universe as the Thrawn Campaign, Grand Admiral Thrawn’s remnant movement rises and falls over the course of a few months, just five years after Return of the Jedi in 9ABY. But despite its briefness, the Thrawn Campaign set the stage for an incredibly volatile moment in the galaxy, putting the still-fledgling New Republic on the back foot while also setting the stage for a future solidification of the Imperial Remnant as a system of power. Time will tell just how much current Star Wars continuity will pull directly from Zahn’s work—even if not directly, there are already some interesting parallels—but here’s how it went down the first time the galaxy learned of the true threat of Thrawn. Early Engagements The state of the galaxy heading into the Thrawn Campaign was a period of uneasy, but hard-achieved peace for both the New Republic and the remnants of the Empire. The former’s war against Warlord Zsinj had ended one of the most potent threats to the nascent New Republic, after a series of offensives lead by various commanders in the New Republic military pushed back Imperial space and denied the Empire access to vital material and, more crucially, resources for recruitment, heavily diminishing the effective capability of the Imperial naval and armed forces. The New Republic itself, while victorious against Zsinj, similarly found itself stretched thin and depleted by its ongoing military campaigns. The loss of the capabilities of the Kuat shipyards during a tactical self-inflicted sabotage campaign by Kuat Drive Yards significantly restricted the production capabilities of one of the premiere sources of capital ships, and by 9ABY the galaxy had settled into something of an entente cordiale, drawing back from direct conflict to consolidate resources. It’s in this moment that Thrawn made his gambit: taking respected veteran Imperial officer Gilad Pellaeon as his second-in-command, Thrawn began a series of campaigns against pirates in Imperial space to gain support and resources from the remaining Moffs, slowly but steadily raising his status through his tactical acumen. By the time Thrawn was ready to begin engaging the New Republic, he commanded two fleets of six Star Destroyers, including his personal flagship, the Chimaera . But the now nominal Supreme Commander of the Imperial Navy also realized that he needed tactical advantages beyond what his minimal fleets could provide. Thrawn returned to the planet Honoghr to re-affirm the Noghri’s loyalty to the Empire after the death of Darth Vader, who they had revered as the savior of their world (although Vader and the Empire actually secretly kept Honoghr slowly dying), gaining access to their warriors as elite operatives and commandos, as well as a personal Noghri bodyguard in Rukh. While using his fleets to begin poking at the edges of New Republic space and get insight into its tactical strategies, Thrawn further looked to bolster his resources. After a skirmish with the New Republic at the library world of Obroa-skai, Thrawn learned of the planet Wayland, and Emperor Palpatine’s secret storage of technology and artifacts within a facility built in Mount Tantiss. It’s at Tantiss that Thrawn secured three of his most vital aids for the early days of his campaign: a series of Spaarti clone cylinders, which let Thrawn mass produce clones of Imperial officers to replenish his forces; designs for cloaking technology to hide his ships; and Mount Tantiss’ Dark Jedi guardian, the clone Joruus C’Baoth. Utilizing access to Force-dampening creatures he had secured in a deal with the smuggler Talon Karrde, the Ysalamiri, Thrawn made an uneasy alliance with C’Baoth, offering the capture of Jedi siblings Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa-Solo (as well as Organa-Solo’s unborn twins) to C’Baoth for training. In exchange, Thrawn would receive the aid of C’Baoth’s Force mastery in the art of battle meditation, allowing the Dark Jedi to aid relaying commands to Thrawn’s ships where conventional communication was impossible, giving him a significant advantage even with lesser numbers. Thrawn immediately began putting these advantages to work. With access to thousands of rapidly created clones—manufactured in a matter of weeks rather than the conventional year-minimum, their stability maintained by seeding Mount Tantiss with Ysalamiri—Thrawn suddenly had the capability to commit to a series of lighting attacks across the Inner and Mid-Rim, using the mobility he gained from not having a major base of operations to be able to guide forces where the New Republic’s defenses were weaker. In an early attempt to bolster his fleets, Thrawn raided Lando Calrissian’s mining business at Nkllon, gaining access to a raft of mole miners that he then used in a cloaked assault on the Sluis Van shipyards, where the New Republic was currently in the process of retrofitting military ships into transport vessels to aid its struggling supply lines. Although Thrawn was foiled at Sluis Van by the actions of Calrissian himself, it was a Pyrrhic victory for the New Republic. Calrissian was forced to use his stolen miners to completely disable the capital ships before Thrawn’s forces could steal them, denying access to both the Empire and the Republic. But while the secret of Thrawn’s use of clone armies was outed at Sluis Van, the New Republic didn’t have time to capitalize on the shock emergence of this dangerous new force. Unbeknownst to its highest chains of command, Thrawn was exploiting the use of Delta Source, a Clone War-era surveillance system in the heart of the Imperial Palace (now the heart of the New Republic’s power structure) to gain insight on his foes, creating a political crisis that climaxed with Bothan senator Borsk Fey’lya getting Admiral Ackbar, the New Republic’s most senior commander, arrested for treason—significantly frustrating the New Republic’s response to the threat of Thrawn. Dark Forces Rising While the political quagmire instigated by Fey’lya was resolved relatively quickly, Thrawn leveraged the New Republic’s inability to effectively respond to his mobility by continuing to assault key New Republic worlds, doing enough damage not to outright destroy New Republic defenses, but damage them enough to force the New Republic to spread its limited assets even more thinly. Meanwhile, Thrawn focused on his next major gambit: finding the legendary missing Katana Fleet , a huge arsenal of Old Republic capital ships driven by slave-rigged machine networks allowing it to be controlled by a fraction of the necessary sentient crew. Although most of the Katana Fleet was destroyed shortly after its maiden voyage through sabotage, rumors that a fraction of its surviving ships had persisted throughout the fall of the Republic and the reign of the Empire. Operating on intelligence acquired from Karrde and other smugglers, Thrawn ascertained the location of roughly 200 remaining capital ships from the Katana Fleet. Although the New Republic attempted to get to the ships before Thrawn could, in the ensuing battle Thrawn successfully managed to capture 178 of the Katana ships, significantly bolstering his naval capability. Now with access to a fleet capable of wiping the New Republic out, Thrawn’s campaign could begin in earnest—even as cracks in his coalition began to form. C’Baoth’s increasing degradation into insanity saw him slowly but surely attempt to consolidate his own power within the Empire away from Thrawn’s ambitions, while on Honoghr Leia Organa-Solo managed to successfully reveal the Empire’s poisoning of the world to the Noghri, fomenting their rebellion against Imperial control. But even with these looming setbacks, Thrawn now had the upper hand on practically every front of the conflict. The Katana ships allowed Thrawn to launch simultaneous attacks on a large number of worlds, drawing responses from the New Republic’s forces that led to them increasingly losing fights. His suddenly amplified threat began to threaten the destabilization of the New Republic’s already unsteady support, as worlds informally committed to the New Republic began declaring re-allegiance to the Empire the closer Thrawn drew to the core worlds. Thrawn also leveraged his expanded fleet to capitalize on resource acquisition that was already stymying the New Republic’s response rate: Thrawn returned to Nkllon and razed Lando’s holdings to the ground, acquiring vital material that now could no longer aid the Republic; then, using the tactics of his cloaked vessels to trick his rivals into believing he had access to a planetary superweapon capable of subverting shield systems, he successfully managed to occupy the agriworld Ukio in a single offensive, gaining access to a significant source of food. As Thrawn marched closer and close to the galactic core, arguably the height of his campaign’s success saw him come close to the brink of total victory. He drew New Republic forces away from Imperial Center on Coruscant with a feint attack on Mrisst, a world in the colonies sector between the Inner Rim and the Core. The distraction not only ended with Thrawn’s occupation of the world, but an opening for him to besiege Coruscant directly. Although a last-minute reinforcement from Corellian general Garm Bel Iblis saved Coruscant from being drawn into a devastating battle for occupation, Thrawn still managed to put Coruscant out of the conflict entirely for either side, using a series of cloaked asteroids to effectively blockade the planet entirely. The Collapse at Bilbringi The loss of Coruscant, even if not directly placing it under Imperial control once more, was a debilitating blow to the New Republic war effort. Hundreds upon hundreds of systems, already only loosely committed to the New Republic’s grasp on power, began declaring neutrality or allegiance to Thrawn, his victory seemingly assured. The Republic had little choice but to allow Thrawn’s forces to effectively take control of the war as its own remaining military capacity was gathered for one final counteroffensive at the Bilbringi shipyards. Commanded by Ackbar in an attempt to secure sensor array technology that could detect Thrawn’s asteroids and break Coruscant’s blockade, the New Republic relied on a similar tactic to the one the Rebellion had deployed on the eve of its similarly desperate assault on the second Death Star. Just as the Alliance had hoped to feint the Empire away from Endor with an assault on Sullust, Ackbar committed a small fleet to the Imperial fortress world of Tangrene in the Outer Rim. But just as was the case at Endor, Thrawn saw through Ackbar’s strategy and ascertained that Bilbringi was the Republic’s true target, setting a trap to destroy the remnants of the New Republic once and for all. Using interdictor cruisers to bring the New Republic fleet out of hyperspace outside of the shipyards, Thrawn’s offensive line encircled the surprised Republic forces and began hammering them in the confusion. But Thrawn’s tactical genius couldn’t stop the destiny of those aforementioned cracks in his coalition coming home to roost. Firstly, little did Thrawn know that Karrde—a former partner turned opponent by Thrawn’s repeated haranguings and betrayals of his smuggling business—had successfully coalesced a union of similarly disgruntled smuggler factions into the Smuggler’s Alliance, who were already inside Bilbringi attempting to steal the sensor technology. Declaring for the Republic and attacking Thrawn’s forces from within, the Republic and the Smuggler’s alliance successfully breached the Imperial defensive line... at which point Rukh promptly assassinated Thrawn. Incapacitating Pellaeon as he reported on a Nohgri-allied assault on C’Baoth at Mount Tantiss, Rukh speared Thrawn through the chest with his knife, pinning the Grand Admiral to his command chair as he bled out, before being killed himself during his attempted escape. With Thrawn’s death and the tide slowly turning against the Imperial Fleet, a recovered Pellaeon, now in acting in command of Thrawn’s forces, realized without Thrawn’s acumen the campaign against the New Republic was unsustainable, ordering a full retreat into the Unknown Regions. With the team at Tantiss (lead by Han, Luke, Leia, former Hand of the Emperor Mara Jade) successfully killing C’Boath, the Thrawn crisis was over. The Legacy of the Thrawn Campaign If the post-Zsinj campaigns had pressed both the Imperial Remnant and the New Republic into a state of peace through degradation, the Thrawn Campaign was an even more rapid and devastating reduction in both faction’s capacities. The New Republic, already struggling to maintain legitimacy in its claims over territory, lost nearly a third of its member regions over the course of the campaign. Its military was also significantly damaged, losing up to 40% of its capacity between outright loss or damage. Meanwhile, cracks had already begun to form in the trust between various members of the upper echelon of the Republic’s ruling council that would only be compounded further by the immediate assaults by the cloned Palpatine as well as the temporary loss of Coruscant, setting the stage for flashpoints like the Caamas document crisis to emerge down the line. While the Thrawn Campaign could be seen as ultimately being a strategic victory for the Empire due to the sheer damage inflicted on the New Republic, in the immediate future the Empire still found itself in a similarly degraded position. The immediate rise and fall of a new Imperial coalition in the wake of the death of the cloned Palpatine and the forces he had amassed at Byss during Thrawn’s campaign only served to keep the Empire in a fractured, compromised state , one that would take it the best part of a decade to coalesce into a formal Imperial Remnant thanks to the aid of Pellaeon. With the formal end of the Galactic Civil War in 19ABY, both the Remnant and the New Republic settled into a more stable peace... at least, for a little while . This is Star Wars , after all.WASHINGTON — The FBI should have done more to gather intelligence before the Capitol riot, according to a watchdog report Thursday that also said no undercover FBI employees were on the scene on Jan. 6, 2021, and that none of the bureau's informants was authorized to participate. The report from the Justice Department inspector general's office knocks down a fringe conspiracy theory advanced by some Republicans in Congress that the FBI played a role in instigating the events that day, when rioters determined to overturn Republican Donald Trump's 2020 election loss to Democrat Joe Biden stormed the building in a violent clash with police. The review, released nearly four years after a dark chapter in history that shook the bedrock of American democracy, was narrow in scope, but aimed to shed light on gnawing questions that have dominated public discourse, including whether major intelligence failures preceded the riot and whether the FBI in some way provoked the violence. Rioters loyal to Donald Trump gather Jan. 6, 2021, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. The report offers a mixed assessment of the FBI's performance in the run-up to the riot, crediting the bureau for preparing for the possibility of violence and for trying to identify known "domestic terrorism subjects" who planned to come to Washington that day. But it said the FBI, in an action the now-deputy director described as a "basic step that was missed," failed to canvass informants across all 56 of its field offices for any relevant intelligence. That was a step, the report concluded, "that could have helped the FBI and its law enforcement partners with their preparations in advance of January 6." The report found 26 FBI informants were in Washington for election-related protests on Jan. 6, including three who were tasked with traveling to the city to report on others who were potentially planning to attend the day's events. While four informants entered the Capitol, none were authorized to do so by the bureau or to break the law, the report said. Rioters storm the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. Many of the 26 informants provided the FBI with information before the riot, but it "was no more specific than, and was consistent with, other sources of information" that the FBI acquired. The FBI said in a letter responding to the report that it accepts the inspection general's recommendation "regarding potential process improvements for future events." The lengthy review was launched days after the riot as the FBI faced questions over whether it had missed warning signs or adequately disseminated intelligence it received, including a Jan. 5, 2021, bulletin prepared by the FBI's Norfolk, Virginia, field office that warned of the potential for "war" at the Capitol. The inspector general found the information in that bulletin was broadly shared. FBI Director Chris Wray, who announced this week his plans to resign at the end of Biden's term in January, defended his agency's handing of the intelligence report. He told lawmakers in 2021 that the report was disseminated though the joint terrorism task force, discussed at a command post in Washington and posted on an internet portal available to other law enforcement agencies. "We did communicate that information in a timely fashion to the Capitol Police and (Metropolitan Police Department) in not one, not two, but three different ways," Wray said at the time. FBI Director Christopher Wray speaks March 11 during a hearing of the Senate Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. Separately, the report said the FBI's New Orleans field office was told by a source between November 2020 and early January 2021 that protesters were planning to station a "quick reaction force" in northern Virginia "to be armed and prepared to respond to violence that day in DC, if necessary." That information was shared with the FBI's Washington Field Office, members of intelligence agencies and some federal law enforcement agencies the day before the riot, the inspector general found. But there was no indication the FBI told northern Virginia police about the information, the report said. An FBI official told the inspector general there was "nothing actionable or immediately concerning about it." A cache of weapons at a Virginia hotel as part of a "quick reaction force" was a central piece of the Justice Department's seditious conspiracy case against Oath Keeper leader Stewart Rhodes and other members of the far-right extremist group. Trump supporters, including Douglas Jensen, center, confront U.S. Capitol Police on Jan. 6, 2021, in the hallway outside of the Senate chamber at the Capitol in Washington. The conspiracy theory that federal law enforcement officers entrapped members of the mob has been spread in conservative circles, including by some Republican lawmakers. Rep. Clay Higgins, R-La., recently suggested on a podcast that agents pretending to be Trump supporters were responsible for instigating the violence. Former Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., who withdrew as Trump's pick as attorney general amid scrutiny over sex trafficking allegations, sent a letter to Wray in 2021 asking how many undercover agents or informants were at the Capitol on Jan. 6 and if they were "merely passive informants or active instigators." Wray said the "notion that somehow the violence at the Capitol on January 6 was part of some operation orchestrated by FBI sources and agents is ludicrous." Rioters scale a wall at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) Supporters loyal to then-President Donald Trump attend a rally on the Ellipse near the White House on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) Trump supporters participate in a rally in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) Trump supporters participate in a rally Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) Then-President Donald Trump gestures as he arrives to speak at a rally in Washington, on Jan. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) People listen as then-President Donald Trump speaks during a rally Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) Supporters of then-President Donald Trump try to break through a police barrier at the Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) A supporter of then-President Donald Trump is injured during clashes with police at the U.S. Capitol, Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) A rioter pours water on herself at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) A Trump supporter holds a Bible as he gathers with others outside the Capitol, Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) Trump supporters try to break through a police barrier, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, at the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) A demonstrator supporting then-President Donald Trump, is sprayed by police, Jan. 6, 2021, during a day of rioting at the Capitol.(AP Photo/John Minchillo) Rioters try to enter the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) U.S. Capitol Police try to hold back rioters outside the east doors to the House side of the U.S. Capitol, Jan 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) Rioters gather outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, on Jan 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) Protesters gather outside the U.S. Capitol, Jan 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) Jacob Anthony Chansley, center, with other insurrectionists who supported then-President Donald Trump, are confronted by U.S. Capitol Police in the hallway outside of the Senate chamber in the Capitol, Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. Chansley, was among the first group of insurrectionists who entered the hallway outside the Senate chamber. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) U.S. Capitol Police hold rioters at gun-point near the House Chamber inside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) Lawmakers evacuate the floor as rioters try to break into the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) Police with guns drawn watch as rioters try to break into the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) Congressmen shelter in the House gallery as rioters try to break into the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) Members of Congress wear emergency gas masks as they are evacuated from the House gallery as rioters try to break into the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) The House gallery is empty after it was evacuated as rioters try to break into the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) Rep. Andy Kim, D-N.J., cleans up debris and personal belongings strewn across the floor of the Rotunda in the early morning hours of Jan. 7, 2021, after rioters stormed the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) Members of the DC National Guard surround the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) Vice President Mike Pence and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., read the final certification of Electoral College votes cast in November's presidential election during a joint session of Congress after working through the night, at the Capitol in Washington, Jan. 7, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, Pool) A flag hangs between broken windows after then-President Donald Trump supporters tried to break through police barriers outside the U.S. Capitol, Jan 6, 2021. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) A flag that reads "Treason" is visible on the ground in the early morning hours of Jan. 7, 2021, after rioters stormed the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) An ATF police officer cleans up debris and personal belongings strewn across the floor of the Rotunda in the early morning hours of Jan. 7, 2021, after rioters stormed the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) Fencing is placed around the exterior of the Capitol grounds, Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021 in Washington. The House and Senate certified the Democrat's electoral college win early Thursday after a violent throng of pro-Trump rioters spent hours Wednesday running rampant through the Capitol. A woman was fatally shot, windows were bashed and the mob forced shaken lawmakers and aides to flee the building, shielded by Capitol Police. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) Stay up-to-date on the latest in local and national government and political topics with our newsletter.
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