‘Spill’ of classified info derails Proud Boys trial [Feds gave orders to destroy evidence. Feds also violated client-attorney confidentiality.]

Politico ^ | March 9, 2023 | Kyle Cheney

[grundle]

She raised particular concerns about a message sent to Miller by another agent who works on covert activity — and who she said did not work on the Proud Boys case — describing a supervisor’s order to “destroy 338 items of evidence.”

Some of the messages appeared to reveal that FBI agents accessed contacts between defendant Zachary Rehl and his attorney

[rockrr]

Defense attorneys have contended that the group is little more than a glorified drinking club that had no actual plan to either storm the Capitol or prevent Biden from taking office. Miller’s testimony portrayed the group’s march through Washington on Jan. 6 as an organized and concerted advance toward the Capitol that pinpointed weaknesses in Capitol Police defenses and exploited them to help facilitate the breach of the Capitol.

If the official narrative of the left is that Pantifa is just an idea then the right should claim that Proud Boys are just a better idea...

[libertylover]

a supervisor’s order to “destroy 338 items of evidence.”

The case should be dismissed (with prejudice) immediately and the supervisor should be indicted on 338 counts of willfully destroying evidence.

[cuz1961]

[cuz1961]

[bluescape]

“..were left in the final document as “hidden” rows in the Excel spreadsheet.” From the Politico article.

Awww shizzle.

I’ve made that mistake in Excel. A common one. This example was a little more catastrophic than usual. And it couldn’t have happened to a nicer bunch of thugs.

[grundle]

Thank you for the correction and clarification.

[lepton]

The flare-up comes as prosecutors are nearing the end of their case against the Proud Boys. They’ve laid out evidence showing that Tarrio and his allies developed a sense of existential dread about a Biden presidency and quickly embraced Trump’s claims of fraud in the days and weeks after his defeat in the 2020 election. As Jan. 6 neared, the group’s leaders grew increasingly disillusioned with police — who they accused of insufficiently acting to investigate a man who stabbed several Proud Boys at a December 2020 rally in Washington. And they set up a new chapter, dubbed the “Ministry of Self Defense,” that included men they believed would follow orders.

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So was the guy ever caught and prosecuted?