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.
Kiss your babies before you come after me...
Every bit of the hidden information actually *was* given to the defense by accident. The prosecution gave the defense an Excel spreadsheet of FBI agent texts which had originally contained several thousand texts but had been edited down to a couple dozen. But it turned out that the redacted texts hadn’t actually been deleted from the document. They had just been made invisible. Making them visible again only required changing a document setting. That’s what the defense did and, voila, they had the thousands of texts. So the defense has got them all and there’s no unringing that bell. The timing of this could not be better coming right on the heels of the Tucker video revelations.
I don’t know about that, but we certainly need to warn them for their evil deeds because judgment comes quickly, and we kill them with the love of Christ.
We need to crucify them with the love of Christ. Amen. I have lost family over this. Amen.
I’m a shepherd, dude. I carry. Sheepdog I am. God told me to be. It’s a big weight, but I carry it.
Add me to these lists please.
Sure thing, but don’t be afraid to let me know that the volume is overwhelming. :^)
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I would be very careful who I allowed to have a job after the
things that have happened.
I’m close to thinking every agent should go. Just start
over.
Then get some legislation in that prevents this from EVER
happening again. Very stiff penalties...
The DOJ is in on it, too. Neither acted faithfully.
They can set up the crooks by having then come in and testify under oath.
Then the D0J can prosecute.
So “Get on it congress!”
AOC would call it “and insurrection on democracy”.
She almost died at it, too. Even though it hasn’t happened (yet).
Pretty clear the field level agents and management of the FBI are involved in a criminal conspiracy.
A hiccup. That's what they call it. A hiccup.
Congress (House and Senate) can impeach, convict, and remove any Federal official. If they were our legitimate representatives, the Wrays and Garlands would have been gone a long time ago.
Thank goodness criminals are almost always stupid. Just use the hidden rows feature...they’ll never find them!
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