#SeditionHunters - the FBI motors forward, mopping up networks: today more of Zach Rehl's Philadelphia Proud Boys. The main 5 who move together are now all arrested. The 3 today all shared a Telegram chat with Rehl, easily picked up via his phone after his March arrest. 1/
All of Rehl's crew helpfully provided names, blood types, and emergency contact info in the group text, along with coordinated travel and discussion of radios. Combined with their group selfies, they practically write their own conspiracy indictments. 2/ storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
Zach Rehl, Philly PB president, was first found inside the Capitol by @DianthaSol after a crowdsourced manhunt. His whole crew gathered in Sen. Merkley's office, familiar enough that they could be spotted even in black-and-white photos from the New Yorker... 3/
Now thanks to their selfies we can see the office scene in full color, complete with white power sign. Hashtags, L-R, are #LanyardPB (Healion), #KamikazePB (Vy, yes it's a terrible tag), #ZachRehlPB, and #NinjaRaphPB (Giddings). Breaking the PA network was a major goal. 4/
For militia groups who worked in coordination on Jan 6, bulk pickups are likely the norm. On the Proud Boys list, 42 of the 232 clear PBs (18%) are now arrested, with most of groups from FL, MO, PA, & PacNW. Would guess there'll be block arrests to come for NY, NJ, NC, & VA. 5/
To remember how long a road it's been and how far we've come, here's the moment when Zach Rehl was first found, on Feb. 25th. Don't be fooled by the slow pace of FBI, though - steamrollers are slow too. 6/
The Philly crew is less tracked than Biggs' Florida PB group. Zach Rehl is at the police line on the Plaza til the fight goes bad ca. 1:15 PM, then is seen just in glimpses - in Merkely's office, outside again masked up at 2:47 PM (h/t @nine_niall). 8/
The timing of that video is suspicious: Rehl's crowd is fully masked up outside and pointing toward the NW Courtyard. Two minutes later, at 2:49 PM, the courtyard door is violently re-breached, pushing police back. That episode could use more eyes on it - is Rehl involved? 9/
@hunterw@JenLawrence21 Clarification: there was ALWAYS a plan to move people to the Capitol. Calls to be at the Capitol at 1 PM had circulated for months. People in the crowd talk about it. You hear people on livestreams telling Trump, hurry up, we have to get to the Capitol. The only question is..1/
@hunterw@JenLawrence21 ...who knew of what part of the plan. Maybe Stockton can say he doesn't know (though he hangs with III%ers - disingenuous that he acts shocked, shocked, that Ali is associated with militia). But there was nothing spontaneous about an effort to get a large crowd to the Capitol. 2/
@hunterw@JenLawrence21 Also here is Stockton posting in Dec. 2020 praising his friend Matt Couch, who is tight with Cindy Chafian, best buds with Nathan Hughes who fought at the tunnel on Jan 6, and involved in trying to spring Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio from jail on Jan 4th. 3/
#SeditionHunters - three weeks ago the DoD Inspector General released a Jan 6 timeline so discrepant with former statements that it couldn't fit in our timeline. Now a bombshell memo call Lt. Generals Charles Flynn and Walter Piatt "unmitigated liars". 1/ politico.com/news/2021/12/0…
Former DC National Guard Col. Earl Matthews focuses on claims that it took hours to prepare National Guard to deploy to the Capitol, says those statements “constituted the willful deception of Congress.” 2/
Maj. Gen. Walker, former commander of the DC National Guard, had immediately called for the IG report to be retracted - it threw him under the bus, claimed he got a call at 4:35 PM to deploy the Guard and sat on it til 5:08 PM. Walker says that's a lie. 3/ washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
#SeditionHunters - the Dec. deposition calendar for the @January6thCmte is so packed you may need this guide from @RubyWorms. Kind of the sedition greatest hits: Michael Flynn on Mon., then Eastman & Jason Miller, next week even busier with Rhodes, Tarrio, RPL, Roger Stone.. 1/
..and the biggest fish of all, Alex Jones, gets a Saturday slot on the 18th. But that's not all: Stockton & Lawrence, McEntee, Stephen Miller, Bill Stepien, Taylor Budowich. Researchers working on any of these, best to get results in as soon as you can. 2/ january6th.house.gov/tip-line
Liz Cheney: "We are making rapid progress. We anticipate that next year, we will be conducting multiple weeks of public hearings, setting out for the American people, in vivid color, exactly what happened, every minute of the day on January 6th." 3/
#SeditionHunters - "arrest Friday" is back! Not just in numbers but in importance: the first arrest in awhile of a perp with an "organizational" role on Jan 6. But first, the colorful & violent #PinstripeBoilersuit, FBI #37 and #94, Josiah Kenyon of NV..1/
#PinstripeBoilersuit was ID'd within days of the Capitol attack: a witness told FBI they'd met him on the Washington Metro, gave his motel, ID'd from motel records. Arrests often lag IDs by many months, presumably to not overload the court system. 2/ justice.gov/usao-dc/press-…
And now, the biggest of the big game, hunted for months, the two who ran the breaches on West and East sides of the Capitol - #MaroonPB and #ZZtopPB. The #1 arrest priority for many, not the leaders of the insurrection but on-the-ground executors. 3/
Likely most people have heard how Twitter's new "safety" rules about posting pictures are being used against investigators - see WaPo article. No #SeditionHunters accounts affected yet, but it's safest to archive Tweet histories - tips to follow 1/ washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
Twitter lets you download a zip file with all past tweets, replies, videos, etc. In your menu bar, go to the "more" setting, click "settings and privacy", then click "Download an archive of your data". They will prepare a zip file; that takes about 24 hours, then notify you. 2/
To save important threads (yours or other people's), first "unroll" them with an app like the threadreader, then save the result as a pdf (see below). Note- if an account is suspended the thread disappears, the actual pdf is the only safe backup. 3/
A big arrest today, not an organizer but one of the first perps on #SeditionHunters's radar - #Fingerman, who flipped off the police after brutally attacking at the tunnel, notable for his U Michigan sweatshirt. He's Justin Jersey from Flint, Michigan. (h/t @michigantea) 1/
Here's the iconic photo of attackers around a downed police officer that started many people on #SeditionHunting. With today's news about #Fingerman, all hashtags in this Jan 22 post (plus many more) are arrested. 2/
The case is not yet unsealed but Detroit News has a few details. They talk about #HockeystickMan, also from Michigan and also part of that attack, but there doesn't seem to be a connection. 3/ detroitnews.com/story/news/loc…