90 Miles From Tyranny : Oath Keepers leader indicted in Capitol riot says she had VIP security creds, met with Secret Service

Monday, February 22, 2021

Oath Keepers leader indicted in Capitol riot says she had VIP security creds, met with Secret Service






















Jessica Watkins, who is allegedly a leader of Oath Keepers, claims that she met with Secret Service agents before the Capitol riot and that she was providing security for the pro-Trump rally.

Watkins has been charged and indicted for conspiracy in connection to the Capitol riot on Jan. 6. She claims to have been issued a “VIP pass” to the rally where former President Trump spoke.

“On January 5 and 6, Ms. Watkins was present not as an insurrectionist, but to provide security to the speakers at the rally, to provide escort for the legislators and others to march to the Capitol as directed by the then president, and to safely escort protesters away from the Capitol to their vehicles and cars at the conclusion of the protest,” her attorney stated in her filing on Saturday, CNN reported.

“She was given a VIP pass to the rally. She met with Secret Service agents. She was within 50 feet of the stage during the rally to provide security for the speakers. At the time the Capitol was breached, she was still at the site of the initial rally where she had provided security,” the court filing continued.

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Watkins hails from Ohio and was an Army Ranger who served in Afghanistan. She is one of nine individuals whom the Justice Department has indicted. She is being charged with conspiring to storm the Capitol to keep Congress members from...




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3 comments:

  1. The first woman graduate of the Ranger school was in 2015. By 2018 there had been 12 women to graduate Ranger school and Jessica Watkins was not one of those 12. I think a woman in her mid 30's could not pass that course.

    This is suspect at best.

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  2. "Oath" keepers....yeah. Right.
    Oath to whom?

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