Thread by @shipwreckedcrew

Your reporting is comical. You want to give the impression that you have some insight on this question when you do not.

All "sound and fury signifying nothing."

Before Jan 6 is was an almost UNIFORM norm to not arrest and detain persons charged with misdemeanors.

https://twitter.com/ryanjreilly/status/1632387392077193217

DOJ shattered that norm. I've defended the FBI on this practice because once a Judge issues and arrest warrant, individual FBI agents do not have the discretion to decide to "not arrest."
This is a DOJ -- PROSECUTOR -- issue, not an FBI issue.

But the hysteria over Tyler Bensch and the four people he's alleged to have been with -- and what they did -- is comical.

I KNOW better than you or any reporter what the evidence shows happened inside that tunnel starting at 2:32.

The inanity of the WaPo story and your Tweets are so irritating that I think I'm going to publish a detailed Substack story on the EXACT timeline and what went on. It was all laid out in U.S. v. McCaughey, et. al., last Aug. and Sept.

A lot went on in the tunnel between 2:42 and 3:30. But I'd cut up on cross the FBI agent who signed the affidavit for Bensch because much of what is in that affidavit is out of context and hyperbolic -- it is not strictly factual.

You know why?

Because he didn't write it.

It was written by a prosecutor and given to the Agent to sign.

This is exactly the circumstance that has contributed to acquittals at trial in a few cases -- the prosecutors overplay the facts in individual instances and can't back them up in court.

If they were concerned about the destruction of evidence on the GoPro, solve that problem with a search warrant. It doesn't mean you take the defendant into custody at gun point, handcuff them and put them in jail until they see a judge.

At least it never did before Biden's DOJ