{"id":7665,"date":"2023-03-27T11:34:59","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T11:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/?p=7665"},"modified":"2023-03-27T11:35:02","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T11:35:02","slug":"j6-trial-reveals-fbi-had-complex-web-of-at-least-20-extremist-group-informants-in-run-up-to-capitol-riot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/?p=7665","title":{"rendered":"J6 Trial Reveals FBI Had ‘Complex Web’ of at Least 20 Extremist Group Informants in Run-Up to Capitol Riot"},"content":{"rendered":"

March 27, 2023 at 07:25AM\u00a0 \u00a0 J6 Trial Reveals FBI Had ‘Complex Web’ of at Least 20 Extremist Group Informants in Run-Up to Capitol Riot<\/a><\/p>\n

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Attorneys at the Department of Justice (DOJ) would not tell a J6 defendant\u2019s attorney if planned witnesses in the case were FBI informants.<\/p>\n

The prosecution\u2019s refusal to disclose the critical information came after the government revealed that a planned witness had been an informant. The revelations come via a court transcript<\/a> obtained by American Greatness\u2019 Julie Kelly.<\/p>\n

The defendants in the case are former Proud Boys National Chairman Enrique Tarrio and members Ethan Nordean, Joseph Biggs, Zachary Rehl and Dominic Pezzola. The defendants are accused of allegedly<\/a> participating in a seditious conspiracy plot to overthrow the U.S. government.<\/p>\n

The DOJ said Wednesday<\/a> that a defense witness for Enrique Tarrio, himself a prior FBI informant<\/a>, had been a confidential human source (CHS) for the bureau from April 2021 to January 2023. Tarrio\u2019s attorney, Sabino Jauregui, said at the Thursday hearing that he asked the DOJ if his next two witnesses were FBI sources as well, Kelly<\/a> noted.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know what they told me?\u201d Jauregui said. \u201cNothing. They don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n

The New York Times has identified<\/a> the female source as Jen Loh, a former member of \u201cLatinos for Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n

Loh, the FBI confidential source, reportedly had 20 to 30 communications with Biggs, his attorney, Norman Pattis, said at the Thursday hearing.<\/p>\n

Loh said in a Friday interview that she provided \u201cuseful information\u201d about leftist protestors to the FBI, and then informed the bureau about \u201cany type of domestic terrorism \u2014 on the right or the left,\u201d the NYT reported.<\/p>\n

FBI San Antonio Special Agent Kristina Spindel\u00a0swore<\/a> in a Thursday statement Loh had given the FBI information as far back as fall 2019.<\/p>\n

Pattis told presiding Judge Timothy Kelly the defense was \u201cvery close to a stipulation on as many as eight or nine other\u201d FBI sources.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was a complex network of confidential human sources at the government\u2019s disposal,\u201d Pattis said.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy biggest concern is the fact that we still have confidential human sources who are unknown to us, \u201d Rehl\u2019s lawyer, Carmen Hernandez, said.<\/p>\n

But Judge Kelly shot down a defense subpoena Tuesday for Proud Boys member Kenneth Lizardo. Kelly ruled that Lizardo had \u201ca reporting relationship with the FBI\u201d and had declared his intention to plead the Fifth if called to testify.<\/p>\n

Lizardo was an associate of Tarrio who went with him to a Jan. 5, 2021 meeting in Washington, D.C., with Oath Keepers militia group founder Stewart Rhodes.<\/p>\n

Rhodes was ultimately convicted<\/a> on charges of participating in Jan. 6-related seditious conspiracy in November 2022.<\/p>\n

According<\/a> to the NYT, the FBI had up to eight informants within the Proud Boys group in the months surrounding the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. That includes a period of time both before and after the event. Former Tennessee Proud Boys chapter leader Matthew Walter told<\/a> the Times in February that around 20 other group members besides himself had FBI relationships around that time.<\/p>\n

Follow Kyle Becker on Twitter <\/em>@kylenabecker<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

via Trending Politics Conservative News and Commentary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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