To me throughout this whole Jan 6th thing there are many things which just do not add up. Each take individually .. well okay. But when one questionable thing is on top of another … my suspicion antenna goes up.
First, there is the Jan 6 house panel on which Nancy Pelosi would not put a reasonable Republican representative, but rather chose two very suspect pseudo-Republicans, neither of which will be back in the House.
Then as has recently become apparent, that committee released only partial selected tapes of what happened. Apparently what was withheld did not fit the forgone conclusion that the Democrats had predetermined ahead of time.
Many many FBI agents (some think up to 200) were infiltrated into the crowd, and although there were many suspicions that something untoward was going to occur on that day, nobody felt that additional security was necessary. I still cannot understand that, and thus far there has been no credible explanation for the absence of additional security.
The doors to the Capitol were held open by those on the inside … very mysterious!
Next, the only one who died on that day was a rather small female Air Force veteran. She was unarmed and yet was shot point blank. The individual who shot her was neither charged nor prosecuted. Apparently this shooting was quietly “taken cate of” by someone who knew best.
In December, the Supreme Court decided it would take up the appeal by Jan. 6 defendant Joseph W. Fisher of the Biden administration’s novel use of an Enron-era evidence-tampering law to prosecute hundreds of defendants for obstruction of Congress during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol incident.
Many of these defendants were charged with obstruction of Congress based on 18 U.S. Code Section 1512(c)(2), or “Tampering with a witness, victim, or an informant.”
Several legal experts have said, in earlier interviews that the high court is likely to find that 1512(c)(2) is being improperly used against Jan. 6 defendants.
The implications extend beyond individual cases to the core strategy employed by the Justice Department (DOJ) in securing convictions.
Defense lawyer Kira Anne West, who has been involved in more than 50 Jan. 6 cases, has accused the Justice Department of overreach in prosecuting some of the approximately 1,300 Jan. 6 cases.
Ms. West, who volunteered to defend dozens of Jan. 6 defendants, said during a recent C-SPAN “Booknotes” podcast that most of her Jan. 6 clients had neither a criminal history nor did they engage in any violence that day.
“Some simply went into the building, turned around, and went out,” she said. “Many were in for a very short period of time, less than 20 minutes. Yet the government is charging them with felony charges that you can get up to 20 years in prison for. That makes absolutely no sense to me.”
Going into the Capitol on January 6th is not excusable. A misdemeanor … yes, but a felony warranting 20 years in federal prison? … not hardly!
Hopefully the Supreme Court will make amends for turning its back on all of the fraud and illegality surrounding the 2020 election. If they had done what they should have done in the first place, January 6th would have never happened.
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