Authorities Claim They Accessed Encrypted Signal Chats to Charge Oath Keepers
of 10 Oath Keeper members and the group’s leader Stewart Rhodes for their alleged role in the Capitol riots, authorities claim that they were able to access multiple invite-only chatrooms where group members coordinated their role in the riots. Authorities describe detailed meetings discussing everything from combat and firearms training to the uniforms Oath Keeper members were going to wear the day of. What’s less clear is how these encrypted chats were divulged in the first place.
The court docs describe how on November 5th, 2020—two days after the last presidential election—Rhodes messaged this secret chat to let fellow members know they should refuse to accept Joe Biden’s victory over then-President Donald Trump, and that the group wouldn’t “[get] through this without a civil war.” Two days later, he sent another message that they “must now do what the people of Serbia did when Milosevic stole their election.
The rest of the documents go on to describe what allegedly happened in the two months that followed: Rhodes and his fellow conspirators held more meetings in more private Signal groups to discuss how they’d stop the lawful transfer of power—nonviolently at first, but then escalating to military -style combat tactics overtime. There were meetings to discuss “unconventional warfare,” “convoy operations,” and the sorts of firearms they were planning to bring to the upcoming “massively bloody revolution” they were planning.
While it’s clear that these docs lay out some pretty horrific chats happening over Signal, it’s less clear how authorities were able to access these chats in the first place. Law enforcement has clashed with this particular app for years while trying to glean information on suspects that use it, and Signal often publicly brushed those attempts off.
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