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DoJ Warns Pro-Trump Mob May Have Stolen National Secrets When They Ransacked House Offices

Laptops, documents missing from lawmakers' offices

Joseph Curl
DoJ Warns Pro-Trump Mob May Have Stolen National Secrets When They Ransacked House Offices
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The Department of Justice warns that pro-Trump rioters who swept past police and ran amok inside the Capitol on Wednesday may have stolen national security secrets from House offices.

When thousands of supporters of President Trump amassed at barricades outside the building in Washington, D.C., Capitol Police were badly outnumbered. As protesters stormed by, many officers remained at the barricades to hold the line, leaving the interior of the Capitol largely unguarded.

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