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Government Corruption

Jan. 6 Attorney Alleges FBI Criminally Altered Evidence, Requests Special Master Review Of Leaked Messages

2023-03-14

[ET] Rogers Roots, an attorney representing Dominic Pezzola, a Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol breach defendant, alleged on Sunday that the FBI had committed crimes by altering evidence and requested that the court appoint a special master to review the evidence.

Roots’s move came days after the testimony of FBI Special Agent Nicole Miller, who was involved in the agency’s investigations of the Jan. 6 defendants. When cross-examining Miller, Nick Smith, an attorney representing Proud Boys member Ethan Nordean (listed as co-defendant on Pezzola’s case), revealed classified FBI emails that were hidden in a tab in an Excel spreadsheet, which included a directive to Miller to "destroy" 338 pieces of evidence and "edit out" an FBI agent from an informant report.

"Destroying evidence is a federal crime. It actually falls under a federal crime under more than one statute. The same goes with altering documents, altering records, that is a federal crime," the John Pierce Law attorney told The Epoch Times in an interview on Sunday.

In a filing on Sunday, Roots requested that Timothy J. Kelly, a Trump appointee presiding over the case, either dismiss the case in its entirety or appoint a special master to independently review the FBI messages that were revealed in court.

"The unceremonious and uninhibited nature of Miller’s discussion of committing these serious crimes suggests an FBI culture of corruption and lawlessness that must be immediately stopped, and fully investigated," Roots said in the filing.

"Accordingly, this case must be dismissed en toto and with prejudice," Roots’s filing continues. "Even if the Court were to overlook this massive trail of FBI corruption and the trial were to proceed, defendants have a right to cross-examine Agent Miller regarding all of these crimes, her missing emails, her discussions of violating defendants’ 6th amendment rights, her discussions of evidence tampering, and her discussions of altering documents involving [confidential human sources] in this case."

Posted by:Besoeker

#9 Nothing will happen.

Posted by: Glenmore 2023-03-14 14:47

#8 The question is how can this be done?

Defund the FBI.

Posted by: Abu Uluque 2023-03-14 13:21

#7 Somewhere, someone in the Bureau is smiling after they found a way to put that exculpatory evidence in a Tab of a Spreadsheet, then ensure the defense noticed it. Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity are not dead just yet, just sadly career risks!

Posted by: NoMoreBS 2023-03-14 13:00

#6 It's way past time for the FBI to be required to record interviews and meet accepted standards for chain of evidence.

Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-03-14 12:13

#5 If the FBI is not questioned about this by Congress, there is a problem. Shouldn’t Michael Horowitz be looking at this immediately?

Posted by: Super Hose 2023-03-14 12:10

#4 “I, _________, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich, and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all the duties incumbent upon me as _________ under the Constitution and laws of the United States.

If the judges followed their oath as above, it would be enough. Currently, we have some judges who are Party hacks who's loyalty is to party above country. Our Justice Department/FBI have been corrupted and needs to be cleaned out top to bottom. The same could be said for the intelligence community.

The question is how can this be done?

Posted by: JohnQC 2023-03-14 11:19

#3 Pls excuse the typos
..using cell in the boony boonies right now.

Posted by: NN2N1 2023-03-14 10:52

#2 When a Justice system us control any political party there is NO Justice.

Any failure to deliver unbiased justice and follow the US Constitution and laws that adhere to it, should slapped with 2x's the penalties inflected on the wronged.

Posted by: NN2N1 2023-03-14 10:51

#1 Could the Special Master (after he's finished with the Jan. 6 issue) have a look at the Epstein guards and non-functioning security cameras as well ?

Posted by: Besoeker 2023-03-14 00:09

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