Capitol Insurrection Report

In the introduction, we catch up a on the latest numbers, and also a bit on the McGonigal case, the convictions in the second tranche of Oath Keepers in their seditious conspiracy case, and the ongoing seditious conspiracy case for the Proud Boys leadership, which should last at least a month longer. Then I am joined by Dakota Adams, son of Tasha Adams, and we discuss growing up with the specter o...

Focusing on recent reporting that signals Special Counsel Jack Smith is investigating a question that figures in Appendix 3 of the final Committee Report, "the Big-Rip Off." Possible charges include wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud, as the Big Lie was used after the conclusion of the 2020 election campaign to supposedly pay for an "election defense fund" that was never created. Inste...

Recorded on the occasion of the second anniversary of the January sixth attack on the US Capitol, this episode is a page by page analysis of the Executive Summary of the Final Report of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack. https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23466430/introductory-material-to-the-final-report-of-the-select-committee.pdf

Being the last episode before the final business meeting of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack, I used this as an occasion to speak with Opal Katz, a member of the open-source intelligence community who has worked since immediately after the Capitol Insurrection to investigate what happened that day. Also includes a defendant profile of a key defendant whose case is c...

Mainly an examination of the Proud Boys seditious conspiracy case in light of the verdict in the Oath Keepers seditious conspiracy case, as well as a breakdown of the Oath Keepers verdict itself, and a look at the consequences of the appointment of Jack Smith as Special Counsel moving forward. https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/case-multi-defendant/file/1549501/download https://www.courtlistener.com/...

Defendant profile of Donald Smith, whose charges were dismissed, becoming only the second January 6th defendant to have his case dismissed. Other topics include the the first Oath Keepers seditious conspiracy trial, the midterm elections and election denialism, Trump's failure to comply with his subpoena from the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack, use immunity extended t...

Updates on the Oath Keepers seditious conspiracy case ongoing in DC District Court, the question of whether felony defendants in January 6th cases are being treated leniently at sentencing, a look at a House candidate's surprising connection to the effort to overturn 2020 presidential election results in Georgia, and ten possible charges that may be referred to the DOJ by the House Select Committe...

Summary and analysis of the ninth investigative hearing of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack, with an emphasis on identifying the over 20 new pieces of evidence and testimony offered at the hearing. https://www.npr.org/2022/10/13/1125331584/jan-6-committee-hearing-transcript https://www.c-span.org/video/?523473-1/january-6-committee-votes-subpoena-president-trump htt...

Catching up on the events on the ongoing Seditious Conspiracy trial for Stewart Rhodes and the other defendants in the first tranche of Oath Keepers seditious conspiracy defendants, the plea agreement for cooperating fourth-degree Proud Boy Jeremy Bertino, and the ninth and possibly final hearing of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack. Also, revisiting the current stat...

As we head into October, a number of developments point to the end of the beginning, an actual reckoning for the organizers of the January sixth attack. President Biden has begun to call for a staucu defense of electoral democracy in the US, calling out "extreme MAGA Republicans" as "semi-fascist." About 40 members of Trump's inner circle have been served with grand jury subpoenas, and at least te...

This episode covers the recent arrest of Oath Keepers attorney Kellye SoRelle, and the possibility that other defendants may be added to her case. Also a discussion of the ongoing Mar-A-Lago classified documents case, and the arrest of Steve Bannon in New York on money laundering and conspiracy charges. Finally, I use publicly available information from the DOJ inmate locator tool to examine where...

Arrests slowed down in the January sixth investigation over the summer of 2022. In this episode, we explore the 33 arrests from June 1, 2022 through August 19, 2022, looking for commonalities. I find that many of these cases do have a few things in common: they are more likely to involve groups of defendants, they are the result of more "complex" investigations that require more resources, and the...

Topics include the FBI search of Donald Trump's Florida home in the investigation of the mishandling of documents, a defendant profile of a pastor who is affiliated with the New Apostolic Revival movement, the longest sentence handed out to a January 6th defendant to date, the subpoenas served to fake Trump electors, the contents of Alex Jones' phone being handed over to the House Select Committee...

Mainly dedicated to the 8th public hearing of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack, but also covering other new developments, including the Bannon conviction for contempt of Congress, the latest defendant suicide, the announcement of new hearings after the August break, the release of DHS emails from January sixth, the continuing story of obstruction of justice by the S...

A synopsis and analysis the seventh public hearing of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack, including the significance of the testimony of Pat Cippolone and 34 other witnesses, the draft tweet regarding January sixth, text messages sent between Brad Parscale and Katerina Pierson, the "team crazy" meeting on December 18th, 2020 at the White House, and a synopsis of what...

The fallout from the Hutchinson testimony and the 8.5 hour testimony of Pat Cippolone, the desperate and comically late claims by Steve Bannon and Stewart Rhodes that they really, honestly and sincerely want to testify before the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack, the possibility of new material from the Red Team and Green Team at the upcoming Committee hearings, the pos...

News from the June 28th hearing of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack, featuring the testimony of former senior aide to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, including the revelation that two persons, whose identities are known to the Committee, have engaged in possible witness tampering. https://wwwhttps://www.npr.org/2022/06/28/1108396692/jan-6-committee-h...

Discussion and analysis of the latest news related to January sixth, including the Dobbs decision, the death of former Senate Sergeant at Arms Michael Stenger, and the seizure of Jeff Rosen's phone. The main theme is the fifth public hearing of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack held on June 23rd, featuring testimony from Jeff Rosen, Eric Herschmann and Seth Engel on...

A response to the public hearing held by the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack held on June 21, which revealed the Committee's findings regarding the fake elector scheme and the efforts to pressure state officials to overturn the election results in key states. Also brief analysis of the fraudulent elector certificates. Includes information on the recent subpoenas issued...

Detailing the central allegations in the third public hearing of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack, including the bombshell revelation that a Proud Boys witness has given sworn testimony that they sought to kill Mike Pence, Nancy Pelosi, and "anyone else they could get their hands on." Includes also new details about the abuse leveled by Trump at Pence on January six...

An examination of testimony before the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on June 13th, 2022, to include the allegation that Donald Trump preferred to accept the advice of an inebriated Rudy Giuliani to declare victory on election night, rather than the advice of campaign professionals such as Bill Stepien that he ought to wait for a final tally. Includes the dismantling...

A brief description of the hearing for the defendants in the Proud Boys seditious conspiracy case on June 9 in Judge Timothy Kelly's court, including the assertion by Carmen Hernandez that the Committee and DOJ seem to be working closely together. The rest of the episode concerns what we learned from the first House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack hearing on June 9th, and al...

The last episode of the podcast before the public hearings of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack at 8:PM eastern on June 9th. Topics include the new superceding indictment for seditious conspiracy in the Proud Boys conspiracy case, witnesses who are scheduled to appear in public testimony before the Committee, and the order by Judge Carter that John Eastman must hand...

In the last episode before the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack holds its first public hearing on June 9th at 8:00 PM eastern time, we look at some of the potential bombshells that could be revealed at the hearings, including links between the attackers and the funders behind the coup attempt, the possibility of evidence from witnesses covered under sealed indictments,...

An examination of what we can expect from the public hearings of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack beginning on June 9, 2022. Includes the revelation that the Committee has evidence that at least seditionist member of the House conducted a "Reconnaissance tour" on January 5th, 2021, the reported testimony and cooperation of William Barr with the January sixth Committ...