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Government Corruption
DOJ Tries To Stonewall Records Request On FBI Informant Embedded In Jan. 6 Defense Team
2023-03-24
[Daily Caller] The Justice Department (DOJ) Thursday decried Jan. 6 defendant Zachary Rehl’s request to release any DOJ reporting records about the defense team, the day after the defense learned that a subpoenaed witness had been an FBI informant, court filings show.

Rehl, a former local Proud Boys leader, is standing trial with the group’s former national chairman Enrique Tarrio and members Ethan, Joseph Biggs and Dominic Pezzola for alleged seditious conspiracy and other charges in an indictment accusing them of conspiring "to oppose the lawful transfer of presidential power by force." After the government said Wednesday that an individual scheduled to appear in the trial as a defense witness had served as an FBI confidential human source from April 2021 to January 2023, Rhel’s attorney Carmen Hernandez filed a motion demanding that the government disclose all FBI or DOJ reports, recordings, and memoranda about "any reporting on and recordings of the defense team."

The DOJ’s Thursday response filing denied the existence of any such reports, recordings or memoranda, despite admitting the source told the FBI around Jan. 9 that she had been subpoenaed to testify in the case and already participated in a deposition. The DOJ contended that the source’s FBI reporting only became relevant in the case after Tarrio’s defense announced on Wednesday that they intended to draw evidence related to the reporting and call her to testify.

GOVERNMENT’S RESPONSE TO ZACHARY REHL’S MOTION by Daily Caller News Foundation on Scribd
Related:
Zachary Rehl: 2023-03-23 DOJ Embedded an FBI Informant Inside the DEFENSE TEAM of Non-Violent Jan 6 Prisoner and Former US Marine Zachary Rehl
Zachary Rehl: 2023-01-13 Proud Boys sedition trial opens 2 years after Jan. 6 riot
Zachary Rehl: 2022-07-14 Leaked DOJ Docs: FBI Informant Says Proud Boys Did Not Plan to Enter Capitol, Were There to Protect Trump Supporters
Posted by:Besoeker

#6  Maybe local prosecutors can start making names for themselves by arresting agents in cases like these and putting them in jail. At some point the Felonious Bureau of Instigation is going instigate itself into mortal peril either by the law saying enough or vigilantes who practice the 3 S's. (Shoot, shovel and shut up) I'm not advocating that but the longer this goes on, the more the FBI will be seen as the enemy.
Posted by: Silentbrick   2023-03-24 17:47  

#5  Felonious Bureau of Investigation will likely get a pass on this. This may be the most historic railroading since they drove the golden spike home.
Posted by: Super Hose   2023-03-24 12:41  

#4  ^ good one there kiddo!.
Posted by: Dale   2023-03-24 10:45  

#3  Evidence tampering, entrapment, violations of legal and court processes etc. Should we rename the DOJ, the Dept Of Political Enforcement (DOPE)?
Posted by: NN2N1   2023-03-24 08:54  

#2  Sharper than a hand full of pea gravel.

Senator Kennedy asks administration judicial nominee Judge Kato Crews a question on the Brady act.

Posted by: Besoeker   2023-03-24 07:22  

#1  The Brady decision ruled that the defense has the right to examine all evidence that may be of an exculpatory nature.
Posted by: Skidmark   2023-03-24 05:52  

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