lawlessness of the last administration while maintaining the department's independence. january 6th insurgents stormed the capitol building in a pre-planned organized assault on our government seeking to overturn the votes of their fellow americans and believing in the lie told them by president trump and his followers. i commend the department for doing the important work of bringing those responsible for the violence of january 6th to justice. i ask only that you continue to follow the facts and the law where they lead because although you have rightly brought hundreds of charges against those who physically trespassed in the capitol the evidence suggests you will have hard decisions to make about those who organized and incited the attack in the first place. we must acknowledge the simple truth that none of the individuals who attacked the capitol that day appeared out of thin air. according to the southern poverty law center, membership in white nationalist groups