{"id":1191129,"date":"2023-03-11T14:11:15","date_gmt":"2023-03-11T19:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/proud-boys-j6-sedition-trial-halted-after-leaked-chat-logs-show-fbi-agent-said-her-boss-ordered-her-to-destroy-evidence\/1191129\/"},"modified":"2023-03-11T14:11:15","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T19:11:15","slug":"proud-boys-j6-sedition-trial-halted-after-leaked-chat-logs-show-fbi-agent-said-her-boss-ordered-her-to-destroy-evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/proud-boys-j6-sedition-trial-halted-after-leaked-chat-logs-show-fbi-agent-said-her-boss-ordered-her-to-destroy-evidence\/1191129\/","title":{"rendered":"Proud Boys J6 Sedition Trial Halted After Leaked Chat Logs Show FBI Agent Said Her Boss Ordered Her To “Destroy Evidence”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Proud Boys J6 Sedition Trial Halted After Leaked Chat Logs Show FBI Agent Said Her Boss Ordered Her To “Destroy Evidence”<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Chris Menahan via Information Liberation,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The feds\u2019 political persecution of the Proud Boys took a wild turn after unintentionally leaked chat logs from FBI Special Agent Nicole Miller revealed she said she was ordered by her boss to \u201cdestroy\u201d \u201c338 items of evidence.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The leaked chats also suggest Miller failed to reveal relevant communications to the defense, potentially spied on privileged attorney-client communications and was asked by another agent to \u201cedit out that I was present\u201d during a meeting with a Confidential Human Source Informant.<\/p>\n

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Concealing evidence. Doctoring evidence. Destroying evidence. Violating attorney-client privilege.<\/p>\n

What’s sad is this will be ignored even by conservative media and Congress simply bc they are members of the Proud Boys.<\/p>\n

That’s not a crime no matter how many times Wray says it. pic.twitter.com\/IeXGj4gV7t<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Julie Kelly \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@julie_kelly2) March 9, 2023<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The shocking revelations were\u00a0shared in a filing<\/a>\u00a0by Proud Boy Ethan Nordean\u2019s (aka Rufio Panman) defense team on Thursday:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The feds are now claiming some of the leaked messages are \u201clikely classified\u201d in what appears to be a bid to hide this bombshell evidence from the jury.\u00a0<\/p>\n

From\u00a0Politico, \u201c\u2018Spill\u2019 of classified info derails Proud Boys trial\u201d<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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As part of her testimony, prosecutors shared with defense lawyers a set of internal FBI messages that [FBI Special Agent Nicole Miller] had sent and received from colleagues related to the case \u2014 a standard production of evidence in criminal cases. To compile those exchanges, FBI headquarters sent Miller a spreadsheet of her messages \u2014 culled from a computer network classified at the \u201csecret\u201d level. Miller then reviewed the messages and filtered them to ensure only relevant, unclassified exchanges were included.<\/p>\n

Miller sent her final list to prosecutors, who then packaged the messages into an Excel spreadsheet that they provided to defense lawyers. But unbeknownst to them, the messages Miller initially filtered out \u2014 including some that DOJ officials say are likely classified \u2014 were left in the final document as \u201chidden\u201d rows in the Excel spreadsheet. Defense counsel stumbled upon them and began grilling Miller about them in front of jurors in the case.<\/p>\n

But unbeknownst to them, the messages Miller initially filtered out \u2014 including some that DOJ officials say are likely classified \u2014 were left in the final document as \u201chidden\u201d rows in the Excel spreadsheet. Defense counsel stumbled upon them and began grilling Miller about them in front of jurors in the case.<\/p>\n

Overnight, Justice Department attorneys told the defense team they were concerned there had been a \u201cspill\u201d of classified information in the hidden messages they accessed. And on Thursday, U.S. District Court Judge Tim Kelly paused the trial \u2014 already in its third month \u2014 to determine how to handle the error.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the latest hiccup in a seditious conspiracy trial that has been marked by excruciating delays and extended legal disputes. Prosecutors say Proud Boys chair Enrique Tarrio and four leaders of the group schemed to prevent the transfer of power from Donald Trump to Joe Biden. The group, according to the Justice Department, split into teams that helped engineer the breach of police lines and, ultimately, the building itself, when one of the defendants, Dominic Pezzola, smashed a Senate-wing window with a stolen riot shield.<\/p>\n

Assistant U.S. Attorney Jocelyn Ballantine, who is supervising the case for the Justice Department, acknowledged the likely \u201cspill\u201d of classified information Thursday morning. She raised particular concerns about a message sent to Miller by another agent who works on covert activity \u2014 and who she said did not work on the Proud Boys case \u2014 describing a supervisor\u2019s order to \u201cdestroy 338 items of evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat could impact a classified equity,\u201d Ballantine said.<\/p>\n

Defense lawyers cried foul, though, noting that the government\u2019s claims of \u201cclassified\u201d material arrived just as the defense sounded the alarm about the content of some of the inadvertently disclosed messages. While Miller testified Wednesday she had produced about \u201c25 rows\u201d of messages, defense lawyers said there were thousands of rows of hidden messages that included contents they contended were directly relevant to their case.<\/p>\n

Some of the messages appeared to reveal that FBI agents accessed contacts between defendant Zachary Rehl and his attorney, which led Miller to tell a colleague she thought Rehl would take his case to trial. In another message, an FBI agent tells Miller, \u201cYou need to go into that CHS report you just put and edit out that I was present.\u201d After defense attorneys began to press Miller about the attorney-client messages on Wednesday afternoon, prosecutors objected, and Kelly halted the trial to permit the parties to debate the matter.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This case was a fraud from the very beginning and it\u2019s an absolute disgrace that it wasn\u2019t thrown out.<\/p>\n

You can see in the leaked texts above the FBI agents questioned whether they could make out a valid \u201cconspiracy and not make a fool of ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Though they have made fools out of themselves, whether that even matters in this DC kangaroo court still remains to be seen.<\/p>\n

In a just country, corrupt Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Chris Wray would be the ones on trial for\u00a0their seditious conspiracy against the January 6th defendants <\/a>and\u00a0the American people as a whole<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nSat, 03\/11\/2023 – 17:30<\/span><\/p>\n

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