EmptyWheel: THE DOJ AND JANUARY 6 INVESTIGATIONS INTO FAKE ELECTORS
CRIME IN THE ERA OF ENCRYPTED APPS: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE DOJ AND JANUARY 6 INVESTIGATIONS INTO FAKE ELECTORS
Yesterday, DOJ took a slew of overt steps in their investigation into the fake electors:
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Even though some of these reports cite the late January batch of subpoenas DOJ sent to people who had declined to participate in the fake elector scheme, the timing of the action — taking place one day after the hearing on the scheme — has set off the usual set of whinging that DOJ isn’t doing as much as the January 6 Committee.
Yet even the first of these stories — the WaPo one — provides reason to believe that DOJ is not chasing the January 6 Committee on this investigation at all. And as I keep pointing out, in April 2021, DOJ took steps — starting on Lisa Monaco’s first day in office — that will be critical to this investigation.
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To be clear: I think it likely that DOJ has or will exploit the January 6 investigation into the same topic in at least two ways.
First, I think it likely that DOJ piggybacked on the Committee’s privilege fight with Eastman. They’ve always had the ability to serve a warrant on Chapman University for the same emails the Committee has been receiving covertly, after all, which is the kind of thing DOJ loves to do in an investigation. But by doing so in the wake of Judge David Carter’s privilege decisions, DOJ can get crime-fraud excepted communications without a Special Master process like the one they used with Rudy.
https://www.emptywheel.net/2022/06/23/crime-in-the-era-of-encrypted-apps-the-relationship-between-the-doj-and-january-6-investigations-into-fake-electors/
Wow... Another fact filled article by EmptyWheel. As always, it is a lot to take in with cites and links that get heavy in detail. But man... This stuff is worth it, I'm finding it all extremely fascinating. I would really not want a DOJ under Garland crawling up my ass with a microscope... Like having a fucking terminator coming after you.
Bottom line looks to me that DOJ and the committee are not cooperating with the hearings and the subpoena's but looks like FOJ used what the committee was doing to keep their activities quiet. Amazing stuff. Go read all of it, the dedicated work being done over there deserves no less IMO.
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Where were these DOJ people and today's info during the 2nd impeachment...might have been helpful to the managers of that effort..
