NYT: Jan. 6 Panel Employing Tactics Used Against Mobsters & Terrorists

DEMOCRATS DID WORSE THINGS THAN TRUMP BUT THEY ARE THE JUDGES NOW Via New York Times: In Scrutinizing Trump and His Allies, Jan. 6 Panel Adopts Prosecution Tactics (Feb. 5, 2022) HIGHLIGHTS: Aggressive tactics typically used against mobsters and terrorists: – The House committee [all Democrats except for 2 RINOS] investigating the assault on the Capitol and what led to it is employing techniques more common in criminal cases than in congressional inquiries. – They are borrowing techniques from federal prosecutions, employing aggressive tactics typically used against mobsters and terrorists. – They seek to develop evidence that could prompt a criminal case. – They see this as the best opportunity to hold Mr. Trump and his team accountable. – The panel has hired more than a dozen other former federal prosecutors. – The committee has: – – interviewed more than 475 witnesses – – issued more than 100 subpoenas, including broad ones to banks, telecommunications & social media companies. – Some of the subpoenas have swept up the personal data of Trump family members and allies, local politicians and at least one member of Congress, Representative Jim Jordan, Republican of Ohio. [January 6 Committee Admits It Doctored Text Message Between Meadows And Jordan] – Armed with reams of telephone records and metadata, the committee has used link analysis, a data mapping technique that former F.B.I. agents say was key to identifying terrorist networks in the years after the Sept. 11 attacks. – Aggressiveness of the committee: – – Making subpoenas public before they have been served – – The expansive list of people questioned, some of whom, these allies maintain, had minimal to no involvement in the events of Jan. 6. – By comparison, the House select committee that spent two and a half years investigating the 2012 Benghazi attack issued just a dozen or so subpoenas — a small fraction of the number issued by the Jan. 6 committee so far — and made no criminal referrals. The Jan. 6 panel has already recommended criminal contempt of Congress charges against three witnesses who refused to cooperate…[up to Feb. 2022] Pressuring DOJ to prosecute Trump, et al. [Although the feds are already active: List of Americans Arrested by Biden & Democrats for Political Reasons] – The committee has no authority to pursue criminal charges but is using what powers it has in expansive ways in hopes of pressuring Attorney General Merrick B. Garland to use the Justice Department to investigate and prosecute them. – The committee has no law enforcement role, and its stated goal is to write a comprehensive report and propose recommendations. – Nevertheless, its members have openly discussed what criminal laws Mr. Trump and his allies may have violated and how they might recommend that the Justice Department investigate him. Pressuring aides (because they have less money to defend themselves) to flip against Trump, et al.: – Faced with at least 16 Trump allies who have signaled they will not fully cooperate with the committee, – Investigators have taken a page out of organized crime prosecutions and quietly turned at least six lower-level Trump staff members into witnesses who have provided information about their bosses’ activities. – The committee is also considering granting immunity to key members of Mr. Trump’s inner circle who have invoked their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination as a way of pressuring them to testify. – The committee turned its attention to lower-level aides – Those witnesses tended to be younger and have far less money to hire high-end white-collar defense lawyers to fend off the committee. So far, the committee has spoken to at least a half-dozen lower-level aides who fall into this category. – – White House chief of staff Mark Meadows’ top aide: Ben Williamson sat for hours of questioning. – – Justice Dept. lawyer Jeffrey Clark’s former senior counsel: Kenneth Klukowski. – – VP Mike Pence’s aides: Marc Short, Greg Jacob, Keith Kellogg. – – Trump’s spokeswomen: Kayleigh McEnany, Stephanie Grisham and Alyssa Farah Griffin. – – Trump’s current spokesman: Taylor Budowich The committee’s investigative work related to Mr. Trump’s current spokesman illustrates the aggressive steps the panel is taking. The spokesman, Taylor Budowich, turned over more than 1,700 pages of documents and sat for roughly four hours of sworn testimony. Shortly after testifying, Mr. Budowich learned that the committee had requested financial records from his bank related to pro-Trump rallies. A federal judge turned down an emergency request by Mr. Budowich to force congressional investigators to relinquish his banking records, which JPMorgan Chase had already given to the committee. Pressuring rally organizers & attendees: – Ali Alexander, a rally organizer: Investigators also sought a broad swath of phone records from him “who was cooperating with the committee, for two months before Jan. 6, 2021 — well before he claims to have thought of planning an event that day — and for one month after.” – Alex Jones: “Even though Mr. Jones refused to share information with the committee, he said the investigators seemed to have found ways around his lack of cooperation. He said the committee had already obtained text messages from him.” But Democrat Rep. Jamie Raskin says they are not trying to “flip” witnesses. Yeah, right.

FLASHBACK: DEMOCRATS DID WHAT THEY ARE ACCUSING TRUMP OF DOING & WORSE Democrats Incited Violence, Claimed Election Was Stolen, Objected to Electoral Votes From our report in Feb. 2021: —- VIDEO: DEMOCRATS CALLING FOR RIOTS & SAYING THEY WANTED TO PUNCH/BEAT TRUMP, PUT A BULLET IN TRUMP, ETC. (Video mark: from 46:04 to 48:00) In the video: Nancy Pelosi, Ayanna Pressley, Jon Tester, Nichole Wallace, Cory Booker, Joe Biden, Maxine Waters, Elizabeth Warren, Johnny Depp, Rick Wilson, Chris Cuomo, Maxine Waters, Madonna, Cory Booker, Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Rashida Tlaib, Cynthia Johnson, Kamala Harris Related: LIST: Democrats Inciting Violent Riots. VIDEO: DEMOCRATS USING THE WORD ‘FIGHT’ IN THEIR SPEECHES Democrats now claim that incites insurrections/violence. (Video mark: from 47:57 to 57:52) In the video: Denis McDonough, Elizabeth Warren (over 30 times saying ‘fight’), Mark Warner, Bob Menendez, Jon Tester, Jacky Rosen, Jeanne Shaheen, Dick Durbin, Ron Wyden, Brian Schatz, Maria Cantwell, Patty Murray, Angus King, Chris Coons, Chris Van Hollen, Michael Bennet, … Martin Heinrich, Tim Kaine, Tammy Baldwin, John Hickenlooper, Mazie Hirono, Chris Murphy, Kirsten Gillibrand, Debbie Stabenow, Bob Casey Jr., Richard Blumenthal, Chuck Schumer, Gary Peters, Sheldon Whitehouse, Rep. Ray Luján, Joe Manchin, Bernie Sanders, Maggie Hassan, Jon Ossoff, Alex Padilla, Raphael Warnock, Tina Smith, Patrick Leahy, Catherine Cortez Masto, Ed Markey, and Chuck Schumer, Tim Kaine, Cory Booker, Amy Klobuchar, Joaquin Castro, Kamala Harris (over 35 times), Rep. Jamie Raskin, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Joe Biden, Peter Buttigieg, Rep. Joaquin Castro, Hillary Clinton, Peter Buttigieg, Robert “Beto” O’Rourke, Ron Wyden, Jacky Rosen, Rep. David Ciciclline, Rep. Ted Lieu, Rep. Diana DeGette, Kirsten Gillibrand, Rep. Joe Neguse, … Eric Swalwell, Raphael Warnock, Sherrod Brown, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Stacey Abrams, Rep. Madeleine Dean, Kamala Harris (about 30 times), Elizabeth Warren Related: LIST: Democrats Using The Word “Fight” & “Fight Like Hell” (Videos). VIDEO: DEMOCRATS DID NOT CONDEMN BUT FOMENTED BLM-ANTIFA RIOTS IN OUR CITIES (Video mark: from 57:48 to 59:57) In the video: Kamala Harris, Chris Cuomo, Nancy Pelosi, Nikole Hanna-Jones, Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Jerry Nadler, Maxine Waters, Kamala Harris Related: Black Lives Matter 101 and their Terrorism VIDEO: DEMOCRATS OBJECTED TO CERTIFICATION OF ELECTORAL VOTES IN 2001, 2005, 2017 (Video mark: from 59:55 to 1:01:57) Democrats now claim that incites insurrections/violence. In the video: In 2017: Jamie Raskin, Pramila Jayapal, Raul Grijalva, Barbara Lee, Sheila Jackson Lee In 2005: Stephanie Tubbs Jones In 2017: Jim McGovern, Sheila Jackson Lee In 2001: Maxine Waters: “I don’t care that it is not signed by a member of the Senate.” In 2017: Maxine Waters, Pramila Jayapal Related: LIST: Democrats Objecting to Electoral College Vote Certification since 2000. VIDEO: DEMOCRATS CLAIMING ELECTION WAS STOLEN Democrats now claim that incites insurrections/violence. (Video mark: from 1:01:56 to 1:06:23) In the video: Joaquin Castro, Sherrod Brown, Hillary Clinton, Stacey Abrams, Nancy Pelosi, Bernie Sanders

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