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12 Aug, 9 tweets, 5 min read
BREAKING AT HUFFPOST: The FBI has arrested #TunnelCommander, an anti-abortion extremist who participated in the Jan. 6 attack. He’s been on #seditionhunters radar for awhile now. Story with @AlannaVagianos: huffpost.com/entry/fbi-arre…
Sick of Jan. 6 stories involving Facebook and Instagram? How about one involving Classmates dot com? huffpost.com/entry/fbi-arre…
“Better to hold on to my soul in prison than to lie in bed with my wife and my children nearby, having betrayed all that I have told them I stand for.” — David Mehaffie on his first federal case huffpost.com/entry/fbi-arre…
Here’s how we alluded to Dave Mehaffie back in March, in our piece on the role of facial recognition in the Capitol investigation. huffpost.com/entry/facial-r…
Here’s the Classmates profile that the image the FBI circulated of “Tunnel Commander” pulls up when plugged into a facial recognition site:
But here’s a real “holy shit” facial recognition moment: When one sleuth plugged in a photo of Dave Mehaffie from back in high school… it pulled up a photo of him at the Capitol decades later.
Dave Mehaffie is part of a fourth superseding indictment that adds him and two others: Steven Cappuccio and Frederico Klein.

Klein, of course, is the Trump State Department appointee previously charged. But Steven Cappuccio is newbie who also likely got a knock this morning.
Here are all the charges that apply to Dave Mehaffie. #TunnelCommander
You might say the feds put him on the naughty list.

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13 Aug
NEW:

Officer Jeff Smith’s widow has been trying to figure out what happened to him on Jan. 6 for months.

In the last 24 hours, #SeditionHunters found the assault on Smith and IDed one of the rioters. A lawsuit has already been filed.

#TeamJeff

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12 Aug
NEW: Alan Byerly has stipulated to pretrial detention. He’s not fighting it.
Judge tells Alan Byerly he can challenge his detention down the line. He’ll likely be transported to D.C. soon. #greybeaniemeanie
Government plans to engage in plea negotiations before the indictment comes down.

(Standard reminder that a plea agreement doesn’t necessarily mean a lax punishment. Most cases are settled with a plea agreement, it’s the details that matter.)
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12 Aug
NEW: I’m told Steven Cappuccio is #stripesguy, and was 123-AFO on the FBI’s Capitol wanted list. He ripped off Officer Daniel Hodges’ mask during the tunnel attack.
Here’s the video the FBI released about #stripesguy #seditionhunters
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12 Aug
“I find myself in one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever seen… I was completely blown away by the Rotunda.” — Jan. 6 defendant Robert Reeder, expressing a common sentiment.
H/T to @emptywheel and @alanfeuer on that one:
Jan. 6 defense lawyers were pretty blown away by the rotunda too:
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12 Aug
Great scoop from @DevlinBarrett here on the feds’ 2018 interview with Rudy Giuliani at Trump’s hotel:
“They seemed like straight kids,” Giuliani said in this story with @svdate: huffpost.com/entry/rudy-giu…
Giuliani thought he was interviewed by FBI agents working with the inspector general’s office, but that wasn’t quite right.
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11 Aug
A judge today denied the government’s request to revoke the pretrial release of Jan. 6 defendant Russell Taylor, finding they did not meet the “heavy” burden required to keep someone locked up before trial.
U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth said the allegations against Taylor were “serious” and the evidence against him “substantial.” But said the precautions taken — including GPS monitoring — mitigate the government’s concerns.
Judge called Taylor’s conduct "cause for concern” and says it "warrants stringent conditions of pretrial release” but denied motion to lock him up due to the "government’s inability to identify a future threat by clear and convincing evidence.” LINK: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
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