Intercept: Serious charges, Felony Murder and Sedition, to be filed in weeks, months against Those Being Arrested in Capitol Violence

As officials promise to bring harsh charges, advocates warn that we can’t “prosecute or jail our way out of a burgeoning fascist movement.”

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“It is common for prosecutors to bring additional, more severe charges weeks or even months into an investigation, and US Attorney Sherwin explained that prosecutors working the case looked for ‘the most simple charge we could file as quick as possible to identify defendants and get them into the system before the hammer falls on them…”

  • Hundreds to be charged with assault on a law enforcement officer (3 year sentence)
  • Up to 30 face Felony Murder (20 to Life/Execution)
  • Up to 300 to be charged with Sedition (8 to 20 years)

AT LEAST 170 people are currently under investigation in connection to the January 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol, and officials expect that number to “grow to the hundreds in the next coming weeks” — a criminal probe that the top federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C., has described as “unprecedented, not only in FBI history, but probably DOJ history.”

Some 111 people were arrested or charged for actions connected to the Capitol siege as of Thursday morning, according to the Prosecution Project, an open-source research platform that monitors criminal cases involving political violence. Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Michael Sherwin said that prosecutors were considering a growing set of charges against those involved in the riot.

He said that the crimes they could be accused of span from the relatively minor trespassing dozens of people have already been charged with; to theft of mail, digital devices, and possibly national security information from the Capitol; and up to assault of a law enforcement officer, seditious conspiracy, and felony murder.

“The gamut of cases and criminal conduct we’re looking at is really mind-blowing and that has really put an enormous amount of work on the plate of the FBI and field offices throughout the entire United States,” Sherwin said at a press conference this week, warning that the cases could take years to prosecute. “This is only the beginning.”



Held nearly a week after the attack on the Capitol, the briefing by Sherwin and Steven D’Antuono, the assistant director in charge for the FBI’s Washington, D.C., office, was the first major update on the status of an investigation occupying hundreds of law enforcement agents and prosecutors nationwide and that has already turned up more than 100,000 pieces of digital media evidence. Lawmakers and other officials have also called for separate investigations to shed light on a historic breach of the Capitol that remains largely unexplained. …read more…good story…

https://theintercept.com/2021/01/14/capitol-riot-fbi-federal-charges/

 

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  1. Moving beyond the current usage of whataboutism,..I hope this sets a measure for how we treat fabrication of justification for war. If we are to say the reason is false for the insurrection , then we will be correct, but are we are also correct for killing a million people doing the same process ? It is clearly stated the justification was FALSE.
    The line here, is “Oh my god, we have to act to correct this shocking act”. And do we also have to correct the shocking act of fighting and dying (sending our children to kill others children) for foreign interests and in that process killing and displacing millions ? See, this is why the CIA needs defunding ???? Is CIA counsel politicized ? hmmm

  2. Funny up to a few days ago if was Trump and his “base” against the libs communists marxist muslims blacks, and now suddenly the rant goes into a “collective” mode lol.

    It might take another 20 years but eventually the religious nutcases and the crazy end timers and whatnot, the real non profit tax dodgers and grifters, will be the right “war on terror”. And you don’t have to go piss off muslims across the world to root them out.

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