Posted on 03/11/2023 9:11:46 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The feds’ political persecution of the Proud Boys took a wild turn after unintentionally leaked chat logs from FBI Special Agent Nicole Miller revealed she said she was ordered by her boss to “destroy” “338 items of evidence.”
The leaked chats also suggest Miller failed to reveal relevant communications to the defense, potentially spied on privileged attorney-client communications and was asked by another agent to “edit out that I was present” during a meeting with a Confidential Human Source Informant.
Concealing evidence. Doctoring evidence. Destroying evidence. Violating attorney-client privilege.
What's sad is this will be ignored even by conservative media and Congress simply bc they are members of the Proud Boys.
That's not a crime no matter how many times Wray says it. pic.twitter.com/IeXGj4gV7t— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) March 9, 2023
The shocking revelations were shared in a filing by Proud Boy Ethan Nordean’s (aka Rufio Panman) defense team on Thursday:
The feds are now claiming some of the leaked messages are “likely classified” in what appears to be a bid to hide this bombshell evidence from the jury.
From Politico, “‘Spill’ of classified info derails Proud Boys trial”:
As part of her testimony, prosecutors shared with defense lawyers a set of internal FBI messages that [FBI Special Agent Nicole Miller] had sent and received from colleagues related to the case — a standard production of evidence in criminal cases. To compile those exchanges, FBI headquarters sent Miller a spreadsheet of her messages — culled from a computer network classified at the “secret” level. Miller then reviewed the messages and filtered them to ensure only relevant, unclassified exchanges were included.
Miller sent her final list to prosecutors, who then packaged the messages into an Excel spreadsheet that they provided to defense lawyers. But unbeknownst to them, the messages Miller initially filtered out — including some that DOJ officials say are likely classified — were left in the final document as “hidden” rows in the Excel spreadsheet. Defense counsel stumbled upon them and began grilling Miller about them in front of jurors in the case.
But unbeknownst to them, the messages Miller initially filtered out — including some that DOJ officials say are likely classified — were left in the final document as “hidden” rows in the Excel spreadsheet. Defense counsel stumbled upon them and began grilling Miller about them in front of jurors in the case.
Overnight, Justice Department attorneys told the defense team they were concerned there had been a “spill” of classified information in the hidden messages they accessed. And on Thursday, U.S. District Court Judge Tim Kelly paused the trial — already in its third month — to determine how to handle the error.
It’s the latest hiccup in a seditious conspiracy trial that has been marked by excruciating delays and extended legal disputes. Prosecutors say Proud Boys chair Enrique Tarrio and four leaders of the group schemed to prevent the transfer of power from Donald Trump to Joe Biden. The group, according to the Justice Department, split into teams that helped engineer the breach of police lines and, ultimately, the building itself, when one of the defendants, Dominic Pezzola, smashed a Senate-wing window with a stolen riot shield.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Jocelyn Ballantine, who is supervising the case for the Justice Department, acknowledged the likely “spill” of classified information Thursday morning. 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.”
“That could impact a classified equity,” Ballantine said.
Defense lawyers cried foul, though, noting that the government’s claims of “classified” material arrived just as the defense sounded the alarm about the content of some of the inadvertently disclosed messages. While Miller testified Wednesday she had produced about “25 rows” of messages, defense lawyers said there were thousands of rows of hidden messages that included contents they contended were directly relevant to their case.
Some of the messages appeared to reveal that FBI agents accessed contacts between defendant Zachary Rehl and his attorney, which led Miller to tell a colleague she thought Rehl would take his case to trial. In another message, an FBI agent tells Miller, “You need to go into that CHS report you just put and edit out that I was present.” After defense attorneys began to press Miller about the attorney-client messages on Wednesday afternoon, prosecutors objected, and Kelly halted the trial to permit the parties to debate the matter.
This case was a fraud from the very beginning and it’s an absolute disgrace that it wasn’t thrown out.
You can see in the leaked texts above the FBI agents questioned whether they could make out a valid “conspiracy and not make a fool of ourselves.”
Though they have made fools out of themselves, whether that even matters in this DC kangaroo court still remains to be seen.
In a just country, corrupt Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Chris Wray would be the ones on trial for their seditious conspiracy against the January 6th defendants and the American people as a whole.
Justice turns on hidden rows in an excel spreadsheet. How appropriate.
“Concealing evidence. Doctoring evidence. Destroying evidence. Violating attorney-client privilege.” Just another work day as an FBI agent…….. Bob what’s for lunch?
My tag line says it all.....
I didn’t know hundreds of lines of messages were ordered to be deleted from evidence before being sent to the defense. They were marked as ‘hidden’ by accident. When did you learn about this?
Likely a good bit of the evidence to be destroyed was the extent of FBI infiltration and instigation into the Proud Boys.... Much like the “Whitmer Kidnapping” I have to assume that government agents inside the Proud Boys outnumber the actual civilian members at least two to one.
Thanks!
Good job...
Thanks.
Good way to get locked up
Decades of honorable FBI agents, some of whom lost their lives in the line of duty, are sullied by these vermin.
What? DOJ and the FBI leadership and some of their key underlings are corrupt? I’m shocked, I tell you, shocked!
Next you will tell me that unicorns and policies are real. Mon d’heur!
2024 will be a fight to return to the rule of law for all Americans regardless of their politics or skin tone, clean house in the executive branch and hold the media and big tech accountable for their propaganda and biased narrative shaping that undermine trust and civility between Americans.
Persecuting innocence should yield a 10x sentence for the persecutor.
When they say they love America, they really mean the deep state. American citizens are supposed to be pawns of the deep state and, when they refuse to act as such, then we the people become their enemy.
But the Ukraine and Saint Zelensky! Don’t pay attention to the evil communist takeover at home, focus on the Russians!
This country is so in need of a housecleaning.
Defund the FBI
Then start over.
Trial?
What trial?
The evidence is on our side.
Justice is not on our side.
If ever there was a trial designed to fail, the FBI trial would be that trial.
The FBI is a deep state tradition that cannot just go away.
Here are a few of the FBI failings:
Ed Deegan murder, and subsequent trial of four innocent men given life sentences to spare the the FBI from giving up informants.
Waco
Ruby Ridge
Russia Russia Russia
Whitey Bulger
the true list would choke a horse.
I liken them to the law enforcement branch of the Italian/Sicilian Mafia. Not all, but sufficient to question their existence.
The game it appears is how to out criminal the criminals.
Well, just because they lied about this one little thing, that doesn’t mean everything else they tell us is not the God’s honest truth. Trust them! Just as you would trust the words of a Biden.
People better wake up or we will have 60 years of East Germany for our kids to live through.
“In a just country, corrupt Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Chris Wray would be the ones on trial for their seditious conspiracy against the January 6th defendants and the American people as a whole”
Hmmm...
That’s some good facts!
We need indictments of Government CROOKS!
Get on it congress!
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