Thread by @arapaho415

1/ Recap <thread>
Michael Sherwin, who "👉stepped down from leading the investigation on Friday [Mar 19, 2021]👈 and returned to Miami, where he had been a line prosecutor."
On 60 Minutes today, Mar 21, 2021. @brookeandtodd @CatsChocolates @clearing_fog @satirehat @TeresaCCarter2

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1373780623731662848

2/ "Evidence the govt obtained in the investigation into the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol most likely meets the bar necessary to charge some of the suspects w/sedition, Michael R Sherwin, the federal prosecutor who had been leading the Justice Dept’s inquiry, said" on 60 Minutes.

3/ "'I personally believe the evidence is trending toward that, and probably meets those elements,' Mr. Sherwin said. 'I believe the facts do support those charges. And I think that, as we go forward, more facts will support that.'” (more)

4/ "The dept has rarely brought charges of sedition, the crime of conspiring to overthrow the gov't. The last time federal prosecutors brought a sedition case was 2010, when they accused members of a Michigan militia of plotting to provoke an armed conflict w/the gov't. (con't)

5/ ...They were ultimately acquitted, and the judge in the case said the Justice Department had not adequately proved that the defendants had entered a 'concrete agreement to forcibly oppose the United States government.'” (more...)
Mar 27, 2012:
nytimes.com/2012/03/28/us/…

6/ "Mr. Sherwin said that only about 10% of the cases so far dealt w/more complicated conspiracies planned and executed by far-right extremists—including members of the Oath Keepers, the Three Percenters and the Proud Boys—to organize, come to Washington and breach the Capitol."

7/ Video clip of Michael Sherwin talking about sedition. Tweet links to 60 Minutes segment and transcript: (more...)

https://twitter.com/60Minutes/status/1373782931186024452

8/ Here's what Michael Sherwin had to say about the former guy's involvement with Capitol insurrection: (more...)

https://twitter.com/60Minutes/status/1373782563609845763

9/ Sherwin: "Our office wanted to ensure...that we could charge as many people as possible before the 20th, and it worked because we saw through media posts that people were afraid to come back to DC, 'because if we go there we're gonna get charged.'" /end

https://twitter.com/60Minutes/status/1373780835732688896