InTheStorm2A

It was exactly one year ago today that I received a message from a high-ranking @CapitolPolice source telling me that former USCP officer - now @CIA employee - Shauni Kerkhoff's home was, at that very moment, being raided by the @FBI. I received that message at 2:43 p.m. on Nov. 7, 2025. @theblaze, then acting editor-in-chief, drove to Kerkhoff's address just after dark and witnessed both plainclothes and uniformed personnel at the residence. He captured the scene on video, then a local cop confronted him and told him to leave. We included this new development in our bombshell story the next morning. The most interesting aspect of this event is that the timelines published by the government in the Brian Cole Jr. criminal case, and the law firm representing Kerkhoff in the civil case against me, contend the "consensual search" took place the day before, on Nov. 6. Though the government portrays the search as consensual, the lawsuit describes the search as a full-on raid. "FBI agents with bomb dogs ransacked her Alexandria, Virginia home ... a caravan of FBI vehicles descended on their street and parked outside their house. The FBI brought a bomb-disposal truck and a helicopter, which hovered loudly overhead. Agents exited their vehicles with their guns drawn in full tactical gear. An agent called Mr. Dickert and commanded him to 'come out of the house unarmed with your dogs.' Mr. Dickert and Ms. Kerkhoff complied and stepped outside. Agents swept through the house, then reentered with bomb-sniffing dogs. They opened cabinets, rifled through drawers, and scattered Ms. Kerkhoff’s and Mr. Dickert’s belongings—all without obtaining Ms. Kerkhoff or Mr. Dickert’s consent. It suddenly occurred to Ms. Kerkhoff that they were not simply looking for a pair of shoes." "Consensual" or "without consent" depends on which version of the story they are telling from filing to filing, but they are sticking to the November 6 date, even though we witnessed it on November 7. Not a single former federal agent I've consulted - from multiple agencies - can remember any single family home residential search lasting more than one day. (Some having participated in hundreds of raids over their careers.) Something doesn't add up. If, according to both government and law firm accounts, Kerkhoff and Dickert were given notice of that "consensual search cum raid" on Nov. 6, and it didn't take place until the next day ... the 7th ... we are looking at cover-ups within cover-ups. Were there two searches? One just "looking for a pair of shoes" on the 6th, and then the full "raid" on the 7th, after she failed the polygraph on the evening of the 6th? Or did they tell her the day before - on the 6th - that they'd be dropping by the next day to "look for a pair of shoes?" Nothing in any of the legal filings has cleared this up to my satisfaction yet. The criminal case and civil case filings say the raid took place on the 6th. We have eyewitnesses and video (with preserved original metadata) of the raid happening in progress on the 7th. One year ago today. Tomorrow is the one-year anniversary of the "Big One." The story that started it all.