Details emerge on Jan. 6 rioter hired for counterterrorism job at the Pentagon

Photo: Aerial view of the Pentagon right after the 9/11 terrorist attack – September 14, 2001. Photo credit: Tech. Sgt. Cedric H. Rudisil, USAF via Wikimedia Commons. Public Domain. Article by Steve Benen. MS NOW – June 5, 2026.

In 2021, Elias Irizarry participated in the Jan. 6 attack. In 2023, he pleaded guilty to a Jan. 6 charge. In 2026, the Defense Department hired him.

A couple of weeks ago, the public learned about a Jan. 6 rioter who was arrested on a gun charge in Texas more than a year after receiving a presidential pardon from Donald Trump. Just days earlier, law enforcement officials in Florida announced a prostitution, human trafficking and child predator sting, which led to the arrest of two more Jan. 6 participants who had also received pardons from the incumbent president. […]

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