Posted on 03/27/2023 7:05:20 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
The new House oversight committee investigating the political weaponization of the Justice Department may want to bring on some additional staff and start putting in some overtime. Every new story that comes out about the FBI’s actions in recent years makes the Bureau look worse and worse. The latest story posted by our colleagues at PJ Media involves the ongoing “seditious conspiracy” charges being brought against leaders and members of the Proud Boys. The trial of chapter leader Zach Rehl was preparing to call a witness this week, but ran into a problem. Their “witness” turned out to be a confidential informant for the FBI who had been spying on the defense team. That brought the trial to a screeching halt “until these issues have been considered and resolved.” That’s putting it mildly, to say the least.
Critics of the harsh prosecutions in the January 6th debacle continue to be vindicated. Those who have said the whole thing was a setup keep getting proved right by our own Department of Justice. According to lawyers for Zachary Rehl, a Proud Boys chapter leader charged with seditious conspiracy, the government failed to disclose that one of the witnesses scheduled to testify was actually a confidential informant for the FBI. Surprisingly, the Associated Press reported it.
“Carmen Hernandez, a lawyer for former Proud Boys chapter leader Zachary Rehl, asked a judge to schedule an immediate emergency hearing and suspend the trial “until these issues have been considered and resolved.” Lawyers for the other four defendants joined in Hernandez’s request...”
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
If you are in a group that meets for poker on Fridays and sometimes casually discuss what could be done to stop the government from taking more power, and friends of friends join your group, you should be wary that they are FEDS.
Especially, if they start talking about actually doing something other than fishing the last of the beer from the cooler and then calling it a night.
If it is a group of five, and you know that one is not a Fed since you have known him since kindergarten, AND you aren’t the Fed, then at least two of the other three probably are Feds.
I’m sure that if the FIB comes calling they’ll all do their bidding. ALL
Bkmk
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