There are seven — SEVEN — FBI witnesses in the case against Jerry Ryals and Anthony Griffith.

Ryals was an apprentice electrician for Griffith. Ryals' social media boosts did them in. Case just unsealed this evening.
The iPhone screenshot function — which old acquaintances of insurrectionists readily deployed against their worst Facebook friends — may be one of the most effective tools in the Capitol probe. Previously: huffpost.com/entry/facebook…
“We definitely have enough people to overthrow this bitch. They don’t stand a f---ing chance. We got the f---ing doors open up there I guess. We’re working our way in slowly but surely.” courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
“Maybe I shouldn’t have gone in,” Griffith reportedly told W-6, who traveled to DC with Ryals and Griffith but evidently didn’t breach the Capitol.

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9 Mar
NEW: Republicans are going to try to claim that they’re attacking Vanita Gupta because they “back the blue." The problem? “The blue” backs Vanita Gupta. huffpost.com/entry/republic…
“I do not support defunding the police,” Gupta says. She says society places too many problems at the feet of police, and there’s a need for investment in up front solutions.
"For too long, we have placed... so many of our nation's social problems at the feet of police," Vanita Gupta said in response to a question about whether she supported "defunding the police." (She doesn't.) Says society puts too much of a burden on law enforcement.
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This is outrageous, and deserves more attention.
Plenty of shame to go around here. washingtonpost.com/media/2021/03/… Image
One aspect of my own prosecution that just continuously blew my mind is that the bureaucrat I’d been bugging about public records requests and dealt with my internal affairs complaint just morphed into my prosecutor and didn’t think that was an issue. huffpost.com/entry/ryan-rei… Image
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8 Mar
No release for QAnon Shaman.

“Defendant... has the right to assemble and to peacefully protest. What he cannot do, however, is storm into the Capitol building during a joint session of Congress to stop Congress from certifying the results of a lawful election.”
"If defenant truly believes that the only reason he participated in an assualt on the U.S. Capitol was to comply with President Trump's orders, this shows defendant's inability (or refusal) to exercise his independent judgment and conform his behavior to the law.”
The 60 Minutes+ interview reeeeaaallly didn’t help his case. Even his mom’s interview showed the court why she’d be a bad custodian. courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
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8 Mar
When you insurrection while still on the family plan.
Sort of defeats the purpose of a Telegram account when you make your profile image a photo of you in D.C. ahead of the insurrection wearing the same outfit you wore when you stormed the Capitol building.
"[Witness 1] stated that STACKHOUSE had called out of work on January 5 and 6, 2021 and that STACKHOUSE had previously been reprimanded at work for displaying political signs and attires in support of former President Trump.” beta.documentcloud.org/documents/2050…
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"I’m just trying to live my life," an oblivious Robert Palmer said hours after the FBI blasted out his image to millions of followers on Twitter.

huffpost.com/entry/robert-p…
The FBI also posted images of Robert Palmer on his preferred social media platform hours before he spoke to HuffPost. The photos were added to the FBI website last week, and multiple tips revealing his identity had been in the FBI's possession for a month. huffpost.com/entry/robert-p…
Here’s something we learned after publication: A month after assaulting cops at the Capitol and identifying himself by name, Robert Scott Palmer went to a Super Bowl celebration and identified himself to a reporter by name again, just to seal the deal. wusfnews.wusf.usf.edu/sports/2021-02…
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