FBI failed to disclose it had an informant in the Proud Boys--who gave privileged attorney-client info to government

Edited from "A Spill of FBI Secrets"
  By Julie Kelly at American Greatness
  March 14, 2023

The FBI and far too many liberal federal judges are conspiring to send defendants they don't like to prison, via rigged trials.

If that sounds like hyperbole, you have no idea what's going on.

The biden regime and the Deep State have identified many enemies.  One of these is a group called the Proud Boys.  According to the gruberment the Proud Boys are domestic violent extremists.  And transphobes.  And homophobes.  And xenophobes.  And [fill in the blank].  Some have been jailed since March of 2021--without bail being allowed.  That's a violation of the rights guaranteed by the Constitution.

[FBI:  "That's no longer governing, and Merrick Garland told us we didn't have to worry about it anymore."]

Five members of the group are currently on trial for "seditious conspiracy."  So:  a) there's a trial going on right now; b) the FBI has a "confidential human source" --which is baffle-gab ("bureau-babble"; gobble-speak) for "informant"--that's a member of the Proud Boys; c) the government never revealed this; and d) that the informant--being in insider within the group of defendants--has been relaying communications between the defendants and their attorneys to the FBI.

WHOA!  Stop the fuck right there.  

If you're a young American or a Democrat (the two groups are equally clueless as to the actual founding principles of this nation), you may not know that one of the principles is called "attorney-client privilege."

What that means is that communications between a defendant and his attorney are supposed to be secret.  The gruberment can't wiretap 'em or force them to be disclosed, period.  And yet in this case, they've BEEN disclosed.

BY LAW (I know, the Dems and the FBI and the Deep State couldn't care less about the actual LAW), the government was obligated to pull the informant.  But they didn't, because that would have alerted the defendants' attorneys to the fact that everything their clients said was known to prosecutors.  The defendants would have had a public-relations win.

Ooooohh, can't allow THAT, eh?

Nicole Miller is one of the lead FBI investigators assigned to the Proud Boys case.  Defense attorneys found emails to and from Miller proving she had access to emails between the defendants and their attorneys.  

On March 8, with Miller on the witness stand, under oath, defense attorney Nicholas Smith surprised Miller by confronting her with messages the Justice Department had tried to hide.  Smith asked Miller if the FBI had "monitored" attorney-client communications between one defendant and his attorney in 2021.

Smith asked whether Miller and another agent had discussed the content of emails exchanged between defendant Zachary Rehl and his former attorney.  Apparently caught off-guard, Miller responded “It appears so.”

This admission should have caused the judge to dismiss all charges and sanction the FBI for misconduct.  It should have been a game-changing, career-ending moment for every FBI thug involved.
 
Smith then read one of Miller’s texts to her fellow FBI members: “I need to find other emails, but this one email definitely indicates that they want to go to trial, But don’t freak out, Jason and Luke.”

Smith turned to Miller. “Now, ‘Jason,’ refers to the lead prosecutor in this case, Jason McCullough, correct?”

But jurors never heard Miller's answer. After prosecutors loudly objected, corrupt judge Timothy Kelly abruptly dismissed the jury, telling jurors he wanted to "press pause, as we sometimes do when an objection hits.”

"Pause" indeed, you tyrannical thugs.

The next day, with the jury not present, the judge held hearing with both sides to determine how to keep from dismissing charges after the defense team revealed FBI messages indicating FBI agents had a) doctored internal reports; b) destroyed evidence, and c) tipped off prosecutors about defense strategy on the government’s highest-profile January 6 case.

Prior to taking the witness stand Miller had compiled a spreadsheet listing internal FBI messages related to her work on the case. The spreadsheet contained just 25 rows of messages.  Odd.

But then the defense discovered roughly 12,000 rows that were hidden behind a tab.

Ooohhh, dat jus' an aksident, citizen!  We nevah intended to hide doze 12,000 rows of messages, really!  And no one evah noticed that we only had 12 rows of messages in a case that's spanned two years.  I mean, we had better things to do, eh?

One of those hidden messages referenced editing a report on a confidential human source, commonly known as an informant: “You need to go into that report and edit out that I was present,” one agent texted Miller. She complied.

Another unidentified agent told Miller an FBI supervisor instructed the agent to destroy “338 items of evidence.”

In perhaps the most shocking revelations, Miller and another agent discussed emails between Rehl and his then-attorney, Jonathan Moseley. “Found an email thread with Rehl and his attorney, Moseley. The attorney raised some interesting points.”

How would the agent have known what points Rehl's attorney raised, eh?

“Hopefully all related to him pleading out,” Miller replied.

You need to read that again: Miller wants the defendants to plead guilty rather than go to trial.  Sounds like the FBI doesn't wanna be questioned about...anything.  So they'll threaten defendants and their families to force the defendants to plead guilty.  Hmmm...

Rather than dismiss all charges because the FBI was intercepting attorney-client communications protected by the Constitution, the corrupt judge instead gave prosecutors a chance to concoct a face-saving strategy—which they quickly did.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Joyelyn Ballatine told the judge that in turning over required information to the defense team, prosecutors may have "accidently spilled" classified information.”  She asked the corrupt judge to force the defense to return all copies of the spreadsheet to allow the gruberment to review all the messages for allegedly “classified” material.

Ballatine claimed one agent communicating with Miller “works on a squad that does covert activity that is classified.”  

Ballantine claimed the 338 items of destroyed evidence might “impact a classified equity.”  She didn't explain what that meant, and no one asked, for fear of looking uninformed.

The attorney for another defendant complained to the judge that "I think Mr. Smith’s ‘gotcha’ moment yesterday was ruined.  He had every right to get destroy [Miller's] testimony on the stand, but suddenly the trial was stopped.”

The corrupt judge rejected defense arguments, and ordered the defense to return all copies of the damning spreadsheet, ordering that it not be reviewed, copied, or shared.

The next day the "Justice Department" told the judge that 80 rows in the original spreadsheet had been removed after prosecutors determined the messages were “either classified *or sensitive.*”

"Sensitive," y'say?  As in "shows deliberate wrongdoing by prosecutors, violation of rights, lying, et cetera.  Yeah, dat do sound "sensitive."

Oh, and the 338 items of destroyed evidence? Prosecutors insisted, without providing any evidence, that the message referred to the routine “disposal” of evidence in a 20-year old case that had been closed.

But no attempt to explain what case they referred to.

But the hidden bombshell here is in the government’s explanation as to why FBI agents were intercepting email correspondence between a defendant and his attorney, then sharing that intelligence with prosecutors handling the case:

According to the Justice Department, prisoners—including defendants not convicted of any crime, as is the case with the Proud Boys now on trial—are NOT entitled to protected communications with their lawyers.

The gruberment claims that since all emails and phone calls are conducted via a government-owned computer system, prisoners must agree to terms of use, including an acknowledgement that attorney-client discussions would be monitored.

Seriously.  The biden regime claims prisoners waive the attorney-client privilege (and by the same logic, the spousal privilege and the priest-confessor privilege) if they use the government-operated email system to communicate with their attorneys.”

Interesting.  Stasi-level stuff.  The KGB is taking notes.

Prosecutors demanded that all testimony from the cross-examination of agent Miller--which the judge cunningly interrupted at the crucial moment--be stricken.

As expected, the corrupt judge ruled for the gruberment  on every point. He sniffed that the defense objections about the FBI intercepts of the attorney-client communications are “much ado about nothing.”

For decades we had a fairly decent justice system.  Now we don't.  It's that simple.

Source.

https://amgreatness.com/2023/03/14/a-spill-of-fbi-secrets/