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Oh, So There Were Federal Agents Embedded at the US Capitol on January 6?

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An attorney for a Jan. 6 defendant says in a recent court filing that at least 20 FBI and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives "assets" were embedded around the U.S. Capitol on the day of the riot.

The attorney, David Fischer, is seeking a dismissal of charges of seditious conspiracy and obstruction charges against nearly a dozen members of the Oath Keepers and client Thomas Caldwell.

The 41-page motion was filed Tuesday before U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta in Washington, D.C., according to a report in the Epoch Times.

"At least 20 FBI and ATF assets were embedded around the Capitol on J6," a footnote in the motion reads. The motion also states that attorneys "combed through a mountain of discovery" including summaries of interviews conducted by FBI agents and that members of the Oath Keepers, a far-right group, were "being monitored and recorded prior to J6."

Now, this could all be tossed out. We don't know. We can't because the liberal media refuses to do their job and dig into any possible federal involvement. Let's go back to The NYT's piece about the informant:  

As scores of Proud Boys made their way, chanting and shouting, toward the Capitol on Jan. 6, one member of the far-right group was busy texting a real-time account of the march.

The recipient was his F.B.I. handler.:snip:

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10 hours ago, Geee said:

 

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Parlatore also told Just the News that Mississippi Democratic Rep. Benny Thompson, chairman of the Jan. 6 committee, wouldn't accept Kerik's offer to testify publicly as part of his committee's investigation and has refused to make the transcript public. 

"They want an appearance of noncompliance," he said.

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Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon became the "poster boy" for noncompliance that the committee wanted, Parlatore said. "They want them to look like they're hiding something, because the reality is, the stuff that they're investigating, if you comply with them, if you give them all the stuff that they are asking for, it doesn't help them. 

"That's why Kerik and I did everything we could to give them the stuff. With Kerik, we actually got President Trump to offer a conditional waiver of privilege. He gave a conditional waiver of privilege that would allow us to give the committee everything in Kerik's possession — everything — and then counsel refused to accept the conditional privilege waiver because he didn't want everything."

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Apr. 17 2022

The Left-wing Media love to portray January 6th as an insurrection, feeding their narrative that Trump supporters were intent on destroying America. Yet, as the DOJ hunts down legitimate peaceful protesters from that day, they continue to conceal video of the event from public view. Now, join Mark as he examines new footage that exposes the government's political agenda. Will justice ever be truly served?

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Feb. 8 2022

The Democrats and liberal Mainstream Media would like you to believe that the Jan 6th Capitol Riot was a stain on our nation’s history, but the real travesty is the injustice taking place in our courts. Brandon Straka, the founder of the WalkAway Campaign, was at the Capitol but didn’t take part or see any of the violence being pushed by the radical Left. Even so, three weeks later, he was arrested and held without charge. Now, after 13 months of court battles, Brandon can finally tell his exclusive story to Mark Levin and share the truth of what he saw and did on that infamous day.

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Democrats are campaigning on Jan. 6 hypocrisy

As BLM-Antifa thugs ramp up activities ahead of the midterms, the hypocrisy and mammoth overreach of the Justice Department’s investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, riot is coming into focus.

The first acquittal of a Jan. 6 defendant who was “waved” into the Capitol by cops is the latest sign that the so-called “armed insurrection” is not living up to the Democrats’ hype.

After the biggest probe in FBI history, not one charge of insurrection has been brought against any Trump supporter at the Capitol.

We are reminded with sickening regularity of the double standard of justice applied to BLMAntifa’s insurrectionists, who tore up cities and attacked cops and federal property in the run-up to the 2020 election and have suffered few consequences.

In fact, they are more likely to be rewarded. Last week, the DOJ settled a lawsuit brought by civil-rights activists over the violent riots outside the White House from May 29 through June 3, 2020.

These “mostly peaceful protests,” as The Washington Post describes them, were so violent that then-President Donald Trump and his family had to be rushed to an underground bunker after the historic St John’s Church was set ablaze.

Dozens of federal officers were injured when they were pelted with bricks, rocks, caustic liquids, frozen water bottles, Molotov cocktails, rental scooters, fireworks and bottles of urine by rioters operating under the banner of Black Lives Matter — or, as BLM is now called by anyone who knows where the money went, “Buy Large Mansions.”

The national media lapped up the Dems’ fake narrative of protesters brutally ejected from the park so that Trump could pose for a photo.

That lie lingers, despite a detailed report by the Inspector General of the Department of the Interior, which found that Park Police did not use tear gas and only cleared the square to allow a contractor “to safely install anti-scale fencing in response to destruction of property and injury to officers.”:snip:

 

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Mom of J6 Political Prisoner: ‘We Are Half Alive

 

Ethan Nordean is entering his 13th month of captivity as a political prisoner in the United States of America.

Arrested in his home state of Washington last February on nonviolent charges related to the Capitol protest on January 6, 2021, Nordean, 31, has spent the past year in jail, mostly in solitary confinement. He hasn’t held his young daughter or hugged his wife and parents for months.

In the eyes of the Biden regime—on a destructive crusade to exact revenge against supporters of Donald Trump—Nordean is a threat to the country, an alleged “domestic violent extremist,” i.e., terrorist, as a member of the Proud Boys. That, of course, is not the group that burned, looted, and actually terrorized thousands of American communities throughout 2020, responsible for at least two dozen deaths and $2 billion in property damages.

 

Nordean’s real crime in Joe Biden’s America was to support Donald Trump in the 2020 election. During an exchange last year at a congressional hearing between FBI Director Christopher Wray and Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Wray suggested Nordean was among the “most dangerous, most serious” January 6 criminal cases.

So, what exactly did Nordean do that so alarmed Wray? Like hundreds of thousands of Americans, he made plans to travel to Washington, D.C. to participate in a political protest—something that was not considered a crime before January 6, 2021. Nordean and other members of the Proud Boys peacefully assembled near the Washington Monument in the morning and then walked toward Capitol Hill.

When some members of the Proud Boys and at least two FBI informants with the group physically breached a police line around 1 p.m. on January 6, Nordean was not among them.

Surveillance video released in his case by court order—and over the Justice Department’s strenuous objections—shows Nordean walking through an open door on the west side of the building as Capitol police stood by. He neither carried a weapon nor assaulted police officers; the most serious charges against him are conspiracy and obstruction of an official proceeding, two nonviolent felonies.

 

 

Sworn affidavits filed in the case show that Nordean had plans to return to his Airbnb rental in D.C. by 3 p.m. on January 6, where Michael Graves, a former lead singer of the punk rock band the Misfits, intended to perform for Ethan and his friends. Not exactly the kind of schedule that lends itself to violently toppling the seat of government.

Yet Ethan Nordean, a man with no criminal record who is not accused of committing any violence on January 6, has been incarcerated since April 2021.:snip:

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The latest Capitol Police scandal

ANDREW DESIDERIO 

04/19/2022 07:14 AM EDT

 

NEW CAPITOL POLICE ALLEGATIONS — A group of former Capitol Police officials alleges that the department’s intelligence-gathering unit went far beyond its intended purpose to safeguard members of Congress and might have violated First Amendment protections. Five people who worked in the Capitol Police’s intel division during the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection say that in the aftermath of that attack, they were ordered to conduct invasive searches on relatives of lawmakers as well as individuals attending events where lawmakers also appeared, according to their lawyer, Dan Gebhardt of Solomon Law Group.

The Capitol Police unit in question has faced upheaval ever since the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, and lawmakers’ safety has been a paramount concern in the year-plus since that day. Gephardt’s clients say the efforts to protect lawmakers veered into troubling territory. “According to Gebhardt, the analysts were directed to start looking through the social media pages of people attending these events with members of Congress — including, at times, congressional staff,” Betsy Woodruff Swan and Daniel Lippman write. The intelligence analysts filed their complaints internally as well as with certain congressional committees, and Capitol Police called the claims “misleading” in a statement. Much more here, from Betsy and Daniel.

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The latest Capitol Police scandal

ANDREW DESIDERIO 

04/19/2022 07:14 AM EDT

 

NEW CAPITOL POLICE ALLEGATIONS — A group of former Capitol Police officials alleges that the department’s intelligence-gathering unit went far beyond its intended purpose to safeguard members of Congress and might have violated First Amendment protections. Five people who worked in the Capitol Police’s intel division during the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection say that in the aftermath of that attack, they were ordered to conduct invasive searches on relatives of lawmakers as well as individuals attending events where lawmakers also appeared, according to their lawyer, Dan Gebhardt of Solomon Law Group.

The Capitol Police unit in question has faced upheaval ever since the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, and lawmakers’ safety has been a paramount concern in the year-plus since that day. Gephardt’s clients say the efforts to protect lawmakers veered into troubling territory. “According to Gebhardt, the analysts were directed to start looking through the social media pages of people attending these events with members of Congress — including, at times, congressional staff,” Betsy Woodruff Swan and Daniel Lippman write. The intelligence analysts filed their complaints internally as well as with certain congressional committees, and Capitol Police called the claims “misleading” in a statement. Much more here, from Betsy and Daniel.

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It has really bothered me that 3 of these officers committed suicide. What would bother them so much to go that far??? So many scenarios go through my mind.

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John Eastman to submit 10,000 pages of Trump-related emails to Jan. 6 committee

Misty Severi, Breaking News Reporter

April 30, 2022

A past attorney for former President Donald Trump will be releasing 10,000 pages of emails to the Jan. 6 committee related to his work on overturning the 2020 presidential election, his attorneys said Friday.

The new documents from John Eastman were part of the more than 36,000 pages of Trump-related emails over which the lawyer previously claimed executive privilege, but when U.S. District Court Judge David Carter ruled Eastman and Trump likely conspired to overturn the election illegally, Eastman waived his claim of executive privilege on 10,000 pages.

The committee will need time to review the newly released 10,000 pages before considering how to handle the other nearly 27,000 pages, Eastman's lawyers said in a court filing against Chairman Bennie Thompson on Friday while requesting a brief reprieve.

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New Jan. 6 Bodycam Videos Show DC Police Officer Assaulting Unconscious Protester

A District of Columbia police officer used a large wooden stick to strike the body and head of protester Rosanne Boyland three times as she lay motionless on the ground on Jan. 6, 2021, according to bodycam footage from several officers obtained by The Epoch Times.

Use-of-force expert Stanley Kephart, upon reviewing the previously unreleased footage, concluded that the three full-force blows by D.C. police officer Lila Morris constituted a felony assault with intent to cause great bodily harm.

Kephart called Morris’s use of force “indefensible” and the internal-affairs investigation of Boyland’s death a “clear and convincing coverup.”:snip:

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Congressman says watchdog found police entered his office for 'criminal' probe, not open door

 

:snip:"I'd been beat up, beat to hell on social media by the far left, everybody calling me an insurrectionist and everything else because they actually felt that I was the threat because of my position on J6," he said on the podcast. I exposed J6. I exposed the Capitol Police leadership team for failing to do their damn job.

"And if they would have done their job, J6 would have never ever happened. If the National Guard would have been deployed on our nation's capitol on Jan. 4, and all of the intelligence were there, January 6 would have never taken place. But there are people that wanted it to take place."

Just the News made several unsuccessful attempts Friday to speak to officials at the Capitol Police IG office. 

"They were coming after me to silence and destroy me," Nehls said Friday. "That's what [House Speaker] Nancy Pelosi wants to do to guys like me. If I am a vocal critic of J6 and that leadership team, they're going to go out there and try to destroy me just like they did with Donald Trump.":snip:

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Whistleblowers claim FBI is targeting employees that engaged in First Amendment activities on January 6

In a letter to the FBI, Rep. Jim Jordan said that whistleblowers have come forward with allegations that the bureau is attempting to terminate employees that were involved in First Amendment activity on January 6, 2021.

"According to several whistleblowers, the FBI is suspending the security clearances of FBI employees for their participation in protected First Amendment activity on January 6, 2021," the letter from Jordan, ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, states.:snip:

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Justice Department Threatens Oath Keepers with Life in Prison

In a letter obtained by American Greatness, the U.S. Department of Justice is threatening defendants charged with seditious conspiracy in the sprawling Oath Keepers case to accept plea deals or face life in prison.

Matthew Graves, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia handling every prosecution related to the events of January 6, 2021, imposed a May 6 deadline for the remaining defendants to accept plea deals. Three men have pleaded guilty to seditious conspiracy; nine others, including Oath Keepers’ founder Stewart Rhodes, have rejected government attempts to reach a plea.

“We write to advise you of applicable penalties that could apply upon conviction at trial,” Graves’ chief prosecutor in the case, Kathyrn Rakoczy, wrote to defense attorneys in a letter dated May 2. (Every January 6 defendant who has faced a jury trial in Washington, D.C. has been found guilty on all charges by jurors following brief deliberations.):snip:

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Jan. 6 committee drops bid to get 14,000 pages of documents from Trump lawyer

Trump-linked lawyer John Eastman got a reprieve Friday when the House select committee investigating Jan. 6 told a court it would be withdrawing objections to roughly 13,929 pages worth of documents it had sought from him.

The committee also expressed willingness to hold "in abeyance" the roughly 3,236 remaining pages worth of subpoenaed email material from him, leaving about 2,945 pages of emails left in the imminent legal crosshairs as the committee's focus shifts to its public hearings.:snip:

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Judge Amit Mehta’s Kangaroo Court

Judge Amit Mehta sounded perturbed, to say the least.

The D.C. District Court judge handling numerous January 6 legal matters, including the Justice Department’s high-profile prosecution of the Oath Keepers, flatly dismissed concerns by defense attorneys that the first trial in the case will coincide with public hearings held by the January 6 Select Committee later this year.

“Even if Congress is on the steps of the courthouse reading the [final] report, I am not moving the September trial,” Mehta warned during a status hearing last week for nine Oath Keepers accused of seditious conspiracy among other charges.

 

Mehta’s outburst was telling. In any other jurisdiction in the country, a political stunt by a handful of partisan lawmakers would be widely criticized as an unfair hurdle for defendants facing trial on the same issue at the same time—especially for an exceedingly rare crime, akin to treason, for which the government is seeking life in prison. Further, any frustration would be directed at the politicians interfering in such a serious prosecution, not at defense attorneys protecting the best interest of their clients.:snip:

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1 hour ago, Geee said:

Judge Amit Mehta’s Kangaroo Court

“January 6, 2021 was supposed to mark the peaceful transition of power. It had been that way for over two centuries, one presidential administration handing off peacefully to the next. Violence and disruption happened in other countries, but not here. This is the United States of America, and it could never happen to our democracy,” Mehta wrote in a 112-page ruling in February. “But it did that very afternoon.” 

Well as long as you haven't made up your mind.

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