 Emails are an important way we update supporters on our efforts to fight for a government that is ethical, accountable, and open. If you want to receive only our most important emails, please click here. John, we just obtained some bombshell internal emails showing that Secret Service agents were in close communication with Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes.  The emails obtained by CREW as part of an ongoing public records request offer only a snapshot of the communication between the Oath Keepers and the Secret Service. If you've saved your payment information with ActBlue Express, your donation will go through immediately:
Another Secret Service agent spoke to Rhodes and informed the other agents that the Oath Keepers were, “NOT there to demonstrate or push a political agenda.”  Rhodes is now best known for his role in organizing the turnout of insurrectionists at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, just a few months after he was in contact with the Secret Service. Information dating back years before 2020 should have made clear to the Secret Service the threat posed by Oath Keepers. But as Washington Post reporter Carol Leonnig said of our report on MSNBC on Wednesday, the Secret Service was “naive” about the risk posed by these groups, which they assumed were friendly to law enforcement. We all saw the consequences of that type of naivety play out during the insurrection. Make a donation to CREW today to help us continue to unveil connections between right wing extremists and the Secret Service, and help power our work to hold insurrectionists accountable→ Thank you,
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