by Chris Menahan, Information Liberation:
Leaked chat logs from FBI Special Agent Nicole Miller obtained by the New York Times confirm the FBI spied on communications between a Proud Boy defendant and his lawyer, worked on a “never-filed conspiracy indictment” targeting Nick Fuentes and Baked Alaska, laughed at a defendant’s personal misfortunes and bragged about “dismantling things” at the FBI’s Washington Field Office.
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From New York Times, “Inside the F.B.I.’s Jan. 6 Investigation of the Proud Boys”:
Some of the Lync [online chat service] messages emerged recently when Agent Miller took the stand at the trial of Mr. Pezzola and his co-defendants — Enrique Tarrio, Ethan Nordean, Joseph Biggs and Zachary Rehl — which is now unfolding in Federal District Court in Washington. On cross-examination, the men’s lawyers sought to use the log to suggest that other agents who chatted with Agent Miller had committed offenses like destroying evidence or scrutinizing emails between one of the defendants and his lawyer in a violation of the attorney-client privilege.
A lawyer for Mr. Pezzola described the messages as evidence of a “massive trail of F.B.I. corruption,” but Judge Timothy J. Kelly, who is presiding at the trial, blasted that assertion, saying it was “unfounded speculation that has no place in a courtroom.”
While the log obtained by The Times is missing several entries, it offers the most extensive portrait yet of the F.B.I.’s internal communications as agents investigated the sprawling Proud Boys case.
As I noted previously, the FBI claimed portions of the logs must be “classified” to keep them from being seen by the jury.
The Times’ report makes no mention of the texts which revealed Agent Miller said she was ordered by her boss to “destroy” “338 items of evidence.”
The Times report also failed to mention the text showing Miller was asked by another agent to “edit out that I was present” during a meeting with a Confidential Human Source Informant.
Nonetheless, portions of the Times’ report were still insightful:
In a separate matter, [Miller] was also working on a never-filed conspiracy indictment against the white nationalist Nick Fuentes and one of his allies, the far-right troll Anthime Gionet, better known by his nickname Baked Alaska.
Her fellow agents were impressed. “Wow,” one of her colleagues in the Washington field office wrote, “you’ve been in WFO [the Washington Field Office] for what, a year? and you are already dismantling things.”
What she’s “dismantling” is not “systems of oppression” but what Biden called “English jurisprudential culture, a white man’s culture” — the idea that folks are innocent until proven guilty and the government mustn’t target political enemies and “find a crime” to prosecute them with — or in this case, the obligation of the government to share exculpatory evidence with defense counsel and not spy on privileged attorney-client communications.
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