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After a Wave of Subpoenas, Notes of Caution About the Jan. 6 Investigation
The New York Times via Yahoo ^ | September 14, 2022 | By Katie Benner and Adam Goldman

Posted on 09/14/2022 1:59:03 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

WASHINGTON — From outside the walls of the Justice Department, the sprawling investigation into efforts to reverse the outcome of the 2020 election seems only to be accelerating, with prosecutors last week subpoenaing about 40 associates of former President Donald Trump and seizing phones from at least two of his aides.

But that flurry of activity should not be mistaken for a signal that Trump will imminently be prosecuted.

The notes of caution appear to reflect the complexity of the investigation, the methodical pace at which the Justice Department conducts its work and the politically explosive nature of an inquiry involving a former president and likely presidential candidate.

They also stand in contrast to signals emanating from the narrower investigation into Trump’s handling of government records and sensitive intelligence information, including possible obstruction charges.

That is not to say that prosecutors are not nearing Trump’s inner circle. They have charged several people with seditious conspiracy, including members of a far-right extremist group that provided security for Trump associates on the day of the Jan. 6 rally. They are scrutinizing Jeffrey Clark, a Justice Department official, for his efforts to help Trump promote the lie that the election had been riddled with fraud, and John Eastman, a lawyer who was one of the biggest proponents of the plan to put forth slates of Trump electors from swing states won by Biden.

But as of now, the subpoenas issued in the Jan. 6 investigation appear not to cite crimes that might have arisen from the push to change the election’s outcome or to identify Trump — who has repeatedly cast the inquiry as politically motivated and without merit — as a possible defendant.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: capitolriot; deminsurgency; election2020; election2022; pelosiscoup; witchhunt
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1 posted on 09/14/2022 1:59:03 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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All that this hoopla is doing is proving to anyone with a brain that those conducting the investigation are simply harassing the innocent....


2 posted on 09/14/2022 2:03:07 PM PDT by Wonder Warthog (Not Responding to Seagull Snark)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Impeach Merrick Garland!!!!


3 posted on 09/14/2022 2:04:11 PM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They’re just passing these out now...almost to years later?? I hope they all take the fifth...


4 posted on 09/14/2022 2:06:01 PM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Translation: we got nothing.


5 posted on 09/14/2022 2:08:27 PM PDT by lurk (u)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
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NO RAIDS FOR ANYONE ELSE. PETITION THE JUDGE IN OTHER CASES


Ask Hunter and James Biden



6 posted on 09/14/2022 2:11:29 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano (Statute of Limitations is going to elapse on Hunter Biden )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Is there a master list of those who were subpoenaed?


7 posted on 09/14/2022 2:11:34 PM PDT by Doctor Congo
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Have a burner phone with a critical contact list.

Do NOT install apps!!!

Have photos backed up, NOT in the cloud!

8 posted on 09/14/2022 2:13:42 PM PDT by G Larry (Population Control means Killing Billions, not "limiting growth".)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Absolutely nothing is known of Katie Benner outside of the fact that she works for the New York Times, has or had a mother and father, has a husband. No age. Ethnically, she appears to be Asian American. She spent some time in China and was published in a Communist Party outlet. She appears to have done everything in her power to keep her background a secret. Why?


9 posted on 09/14/2022 2:16:18 PM PDT by Bookshelf
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“They have charged several people with seditious conspiracy”

What do you call the actions of the DOJ/FBI?


10 posted on 09/14/2022 2:17:23 PM PDT by dljordan
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

No one who does this much desperate “digging” has a case.


11 posted on 09/14/2022 2:18:02 PM PDT by fwdude (Racism is not dead, but it is on life support - kept alive by politicians….” — Thomas Sowell)
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12 posted on 09/14/2022 2:18:45 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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Well played sir!


13 posted on 09/14/2022 2:21:04 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money)
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14 posted on 09/14/2022 2:28:19 PM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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Inner Circle? Some “far-right extremist group that provided security for Trump Assoc???? Hardly inner circle!

“That is not to say that prosecutors are not nearing Trump’s inner circle.

They have charged several people with seditious conspiracy, including members of a far-right extremist group that provided security for Trump associates on the day of the Jan. 6 rally”


15 posted on 09/14/2022 2:34:49 PM PDT by Freedom56v2
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...the methodical pace at which the Justice Department conducts its work...

Y'mean like when they raided Mar-a-Lago?

Or took the MyPillow Guy's phone?

That "methodical"?

16 posted on 09/14/2022 2:39:09 PM PDT by sauropod (Unbelief has nothing to say. Chance favors the prepared mind.)
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To: Bookshelf

She was BORN in China, not just spent time there.

She’s a typical hard line, dogmatic Maoist Chinese woman which if you live in the Bay Area you find there’s hardly any other kind.


17 posted on 09/14/2022 2:43:03 PM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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Has Ray Epps been subpeoned? He was the organizer on Jan 6 with the megaphone instruction people to storm the Capitol Building. Several vid of him in action.


18 posted on 09/14/2022 2:45:46 PM PDT by chopperk
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Brace yourselves for the October Surprise from the DOJ....multiple GOP candidates indicted/arrested for sedition including Trump himself.

The media narrative will be: The majority of the GOP is guilty of sedition and ineligible to run for office.

By the time this reaches the SCOTUS, it will be 2025.


19 posted on 09/14/2022 2:51:49 PM PDT by Erik Latranyi (We are being manipulated by forces that most do not see)
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They are scrutinizing Jeffrey Clark, a Justice Department official, for his efforts to help Trump promote the lie that the election had been riddled with fraud...

I’d like to see the statute where a belief in something, right or wrong, is a criminal offense.


20 posted on 09/14/2022 2:55:52 PM PDT by Flick Lives (FJB and the corrupt FBI)
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