Thread by @emptywheel

Gonna reup this bc there is a flood of ignorant bullshit about what the investigation took to get to this weeks' indictment. Here are the accounts that Rudy claimed (if you can believe him) he conducted his coup plotting on.

https://t.co/nev7uCkjCJstorage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

This alleged conspiracy was conducted BY LAWYERS using ENCRYPTED APPs.

If you read something about how long this investigation took that doesn't address those two facts, you can use it as kitty litter.

When a conspiracy is conducted BY LAWYERS on ENCRYPTED APPS, it means you have to go phone by phone (bc that's how you get the encrypted apps), and for each one conduct a privilege review.

We know the phones used in this conspiracy were seized on the following dates:

Rudy: April 28, 2021
John Eastman: June 2022
Jeffrey Clark: June 2022
Boris Epshteyn: September 2022
Mike Roman: September 2022

Each phone of a lawyer will take AT LEAST 6 months to review.

Rudy's privilege review, which was set into motion on LITERALLY Lisa Monaco's first day on the job, took 9 months. DOJ successfully got EVERYTHING reviewed, meaning when J6 got PC for it, the content was ready.

We can't prove when Jan6 got Rudy's January 6 content, but there are at least 5,000 items from the phone seized on April 28, 2021 that were from Jan6 conspiring.

Bc DOJ did a Special Master, it appears Rudy failed to invoke privilege over anything that was not his own lawyer.

And as this post lays out, not only was DOJ taking overt steps in the fake electors plot b4 J6C's first hearing, but their FOCUS was different--and in a way that might suggest DOJ's leads came from Rudy's phones.

emptywheel.net/2023/06/26/non…

So JUST on the fact that this conspiracy was committed BY LAWYERS using ENCRYPTED APPS explains a great deal of what has taken 2 years.

Now add in EP claims. It took from 7/22 to 4/27/23 to work through all the high level EP witnesses.

Also: The investigation into Sidney Powell, CC3, was overt by September 2021.

No idea when or if they got her phone. But the investigation into her was literally overt before J6C issued their first subpoena.

Here's a list (as of January) of all the OTHER lawyers who were witnesses and subjects in this investigation. The list is now over 30.

Again, with each one, you have to do privilege reviews.

emptywheel.net/2023/01/09/at-…