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.
FBI is so damn corrupt. Good grief!
I hope we gain back the senate, white house and larger majority in the house and begin purging the rot from this agency.
Paint it on the walls, shout it in the streets, Spread it far and wide...
The TRUTH, in America, has pretty much gone out of style. But, I thing this bears repeating anyway.....just for old time sake... :(
Defund. Do not replace.
“We need indictments of Government CROOKS!
“Get on it congress!”
Does Congress have the power to indict? I thought they could do no more than investigate and collect information.
This country is so in need of a housecleaning.
You call it a House Cleaning, I call it an Enema..............
Our DOJ has become so chocked full of marxist democrat lawyers who are young and their heads are so full of College brainwashing about their country that this “department of prosecutors” simply can’t correctly follow it’s own prosecutorial rules because lying and cheating come naturally to Democrats. It’s in their DNA.
The SIMPLE FACT is that all these Democrats will do is prosecute Republicans and CHEAT and LY doing it.
This Agency is too corrupt to be saved. They need to be shut down and re-constructed without corrupt leadership forcing rank and file agents to do their dirty work.
Burn it down.
Not the bfi, DC. It is a snake pit.
What they love is their MAFIA element. It gets them off and makes their handlers happy with them so they can continue their campaign of evil.
My pleasure!
For protesting? Fortunately our founders didn’t cower.
Lawfare has been successful in erasing those who want to debate and reason with our ruling class since the fake “scopes trial”.
BUT BUT BUT The rank and file guys are really good guys....
Every one of the FBI crooks is a punk crook. Every damned one of them. That includes you punks who monitor every post here. To hell with you.
There needs to be tar and feathers if not a hanging
If we don’t start holding them accountable, we are doomed. We need to start killing these goons.
Show up at my door. Double dog dare ya. I’ll die in a pile of brass yet I won’t be alone.
That is a Brady violation.
The defendants should, at minimum, be granted a mistrial. All the “hidden” evidence should then be given to the defense.
But Brady violations often result in dismissals, which should occur here.
The “spill” of classified information argument is bunk.
When a trial involves large amounts of classified information, what happens is the defense attorneys are cleared to the highest level of classified information to be presented.
Why didn’t that happen with the J6 defendants’ lawyers?
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