Feds agree to pay $6.1M to create database for Capitol riot prosecutions

[orangecrush]

The Justice Department has agreed to pay $6.1 million to a technology contractor to create a massive database of videos, photographs, documents and social media posts related to the Capitol riot as part of the process of turning relevant evidence over to defense attorneys for the more than 500 people facing criminal charges in the Jan. 6 events, according to a court filing and government records.

To take on the daunting task, the federal government has turned to Deloitte Financial Advisory Services, a firm prosecutors called “a litigation support vendor with extensive experience providing complex litigation technology services.”



Prosecutors are trying to organize thousands of hours of body-worn camera footage, closed-circuit surveillance camera footage, more than a million social media videos, data from phones and email accounts, and the responses to more than 6,000 grand jury subpoenas, according to a court filing Thursday.

“Following the Capitol Breach, the United States recognized that due to the nature and volume of materials being collected, the government would require the use of an outside contractor who could provide litigation technology support services to include highly technical and specialized data and document processing and review capabilities,” Assistant U.S. Attorneys Nadia Moore and William Dreher wrote in their submission.




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Didn't Trump say he'd pay for this?


Why are we spending a dime to help these assholes?

[kimbutgar]

1. Make sure the social media of those creating these data base files are not orange maggot

Supporters.

[Budi]

2. We've spent far more on useless shit. Let this be a data base forever in our history books.

A reference source, a teaching tool.
A source to debunk the whitewashing of Jan 6.

A massive source for prosecution & tracking of anti-American terrorist cells in this country.

6 million well spent.

[CatWoman]

4. agree 100 percent

[Baked Potato]

3. I agree with doing this.

[mopinko]

5. we arent helping them. we're prosecuting them. discovery is required.

that's how it works.

[orangecrush]

6. O.K. I see your point

Let them see just how fucked they are.

[mopinko]

7. exactly.

lay that shit out, end to end, and have their lawyers explain just how fucked they are.

[Duppers]

8. "Help"?

I thought this is about collecting evidence to prosecute, no?

[Volaris]

9. Any evidence needs to be turned over to Defense Counsel.

Putting it all in a centralized database makes it easier to deliver, which means it takes less time for courts to find these fuckers guilty. It ALSO makes it harder to appeal, as there are less legal technicalities that can be argued were unfair.