The crowdsourced effort to arrest assorted MAGA chuds who attacked the Captol in an effort to prevent the peaceful transfer of power in the United States has yielded results. I salute your work.
You have watched thousands of hours of video, looking for small details, identifying insiders and AFO suspects. Your work has been affirmed in federal court at the DCD, and has formed the entire evidentiary basis for many cases. I salute you.
My own skillset is a bit different. From the spring of 2021, I have focused on documents, rather than video evidence. From various soical media posts, from my second podcast episode on Shane Jenkins, through the Matthews Memo, through to the material in the Oath Keepers...
...seditious conspiracy case, Exhibit 10 in the Vallejo discovery material, I have maintained a focus on reading long, tedious documents, the same way many have watched violent, traumatizing attacks on law enforcement.
I'm asking for your help.
It's been estimated by the media that the total content of the January 6th transcripts includes some 18,000 pages of materiaI. I have now at least looked at every transcript. With 263 witnesses an average of 68 pages per transcript, I am putting out the bat signal.
Tired of seeing arrests of low-level chuds, but no consequences for the actual organizers of the effort to end electoral democracy in America?
I actually don't know how many other #SeditionHunters are looking at these. One of the most horrid changes since the emerald miner took over is that the people with whom I interact most have largely disappeared from my timeline.
But if one of my followers follows MTG, I see it.
I know there's some clout-chasing in this space, people demanding free work.
Not what I am about, I have no paywalled content, the podcast is free, I have no Patreon, no way to ask for donations.
What I ask here, for those of you who have stood fast at the barricades defending democracy from the very beginning, is for your help.
You've watched the video. Now read the transcripts.
The DOJ isn't going to act without informed public input. I have taken some flak from some quarters because I have been supportive of the attorney general, but I have also demonstrated skepticism regarding whether our institutions are up to the task, from episode one.
I have worked with a fair number of other #seditionhunters from the beginning, and have always worked to preserve the anonymity of people who want to keep it that way. Even though I have always operated in the open, with my wife and kids, here in NC, which has many violent MAGAs
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Developing a spreadsheet of all testimony before the January sixth Committee, sorting by date because I am interested in when the Committee began to ask specific questions about if or if they were contacted by Alex Cannon or any other Trump attorney.
Noticed that Doug Mastriano was only interviewed by the Committee on August 9, 2022.
That is extremely late. I started investigating this soon after the attack, and Mastriano was already established as an important figure by the very first sedition hunters.
Mastriano gave an excuse that, to use a technical term, is complete and utter bullshit.
Apparently Mike Pence thinks being president of the Senate means that he's part of the legislative branch, and therefore untouchable, thanks to the speech and debate clause.
This is one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard.
In point of fact, in our modern system, the president plays a bigger legislative role than the vice president.
Pence is up against every org chart of the executive branch ever produced. The vice president is part of the executive branch.
It's true that Article I assigns the role of the president of the Senate, but the vice presidency is created in Article II. It's an executive branch position, period, and the claim his legislative role confers immunity to subpoenas is an innovation without basis. So conservative!
As you read the transcripts, you'll find investigators regularly asking Trump White House and campaign insiders what their current employment situation is.
This probably covers at least half of them. And the DOJ already knows where to look.
Outfits like Elections LLC. Do they have other clients?
Sure. But these are often things like the Herschel Walker campaign, so it's a distinction without a difference. The money is coming from the same place.
Status conference in the case of Riley June Williams in the courtroom of Judge Amy Jackson. #GreenShirtStairmaster
Convicted on November 21, 2022 of obstruction of law enforcement during civil disorder and AFO. seditiontracker.com/suspects/riley…
There's an interesting exchange in the transcript of Garrett Ziegler, the aide to Peter Navarro who opened the doors to the White House to allow "team crazy" into the White House residence.
Page 14:
Do you know someone named Riley?
I invoke my right to silence under the Fifth Amendment.
Oh, hey, look, law enforcement didn't just use the Proud Boys as a source for information on the activities of the left, they were also feeding information to the Proud Boys for January 6th.
A lot of agencies have a lot to hide, it's not just one rogue lieutenant.
h/t to Roger Parloff, @rparloff from Lawfare, who my followers probably already follow.
The government has been adamant that informants in the Proud Boys didn't tip them off about January sixth, the defense has been adamant they were provocateurs.
The theory that best fits with the data, however, is that law enforcement was using these relationships to get "intel" on leftist activists. If that's the case, it's not something unique to DC on January sixth.
Going through the transcripts, after a certain point, investigators start asking very specific questions on whether witnesses has been contacted by Alex Cannon.