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Our friend Julie Kelly gave us a heads-up there was massive drama in the Proud Boys January 6 trial yesterday after an FBI agent was caught lying on the stand and concealing evidence from defense attorneys. It turns out that Special Agent Nicole Miller (or someone) deleted thousands of messages in FBIs "Lync" messaging system--messages relevant to investigation and required to be produced to defense counsel. This brazen lawlessness at FBI in its biggest January 6 case, observed Ms. Kelly, because it appears Special Agent Miller’s “Boss” instructed the FBI agent to "destroy" hundreds of items of evidence. If this...

What's black and white and "red" all over? The Department of Justice's newly designed website. Gone are the standard red, white, and blue motifs, replaced by an all-black backdrop. And prominently placed on virtually every page of the site is a quote credited to a man who facilitated a greater role for socialists and communists at the U.N., and the global "workers rights movement." The redesigned website was launched without fanfare, but was noticed internally by several career lawyers, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of political reprisals. "We were told that the media team and the senior...

The trail of suspects connected to the murder of a Tennessee Highway Patrol officer in Tipton County has led to a man and woman in Austin, Texas, linked to the rental of a car used by the pair charged in the trooper’s death. The man in Austin, identified as Emilio C. Fernandez, 34, is being held at the Travis County Jail in Austin on unrelated felony theft and probation violation warrants, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation announced. Investigators also searched a trailer in the Austin area where a 17-year-old charged in the trooper’s death lived. In the trailer they found...