I didn’t see this mentioned here when it aired 2 days ago.
www.msnbc.com/…
Alan Feuer is a criminal justice reporter for the New York Times. On the Rachel Maddow show aired on 4/22/2022, he spoke about the addition of Thomas Windom to the DOJ's January 6th investigation. He said on the show that he is working with the DOJ's probe of rally organizers and other people outside of the immediate Capitol attackers. There isn’t a transcript of the show yet, but it was mentioned:
- His mandate is to look at whether or not there was criminal activity related to 1/6 that took place off Capitol grounds.
- There are two tracks to DOJs investigation — those who broke in, trespassed, assaulted officers etc and those involved in the political rally, including Trump and other elected officials. He has joined the second team. Suits and boots is how he referred to it.
- This conspiracy could be prosecuted by charging with obstructing the work of Congress.
- There are over 140 Federal prosecutors still working on the various cases.
- Multiple case filings related to 1/6 shows that the DOJ is “very honed in” on “what effect former President Trump’s words and actions had on people on the ground”
Well worth the watch. This was just reported, but it seems he actually joined the team a few months ago.
www.nytimes.com/…
Mr. Windom has been working with officials from the national security and criminal divisions at the Justice Department to determine whether and how to investigate potential criminal activity related to the Jan. 6 attack, other than what took place during the assault.
His work complements two teams led by prosecutors in the Washington U.S. attorney’s office: one focused on charging people for participating in the riot and one focused on more complicated conspiracy cases stemming from it, such as the seditious conspiracy case that was brought against Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the Oath Keepers.
Mr. Windom is looking into the more politically fraught question of whether a case can be made related to other efforts to overturn the election, a task that could move the investigation closer to Mr. Trump and his inner circle. Mr. Alexander’s lawyers have been dealing with Mr. Windom, for example, in responding to the broad subpoena seeking information about the pro-Trump rallies and other efforts to keep Mr. Trump in office.
Bold is mine. I know that there has been a lot of vocal skepticism of how aggressive the DOJ will be in pursuing the planners and politicians involved in the insurrection. However, it doesn’t add up that the DOJ would add these types of resources, as well as still deploying over 100 federal prosecutors, if they intended to pull their punches. Since most of the low level offenders have been moved through the criminal justice system, I have commented before that still having this many people working on the conspiracy, means the bigger and more serious planners are being looked at heavily. So how is Windom seen by the experts and colleagues?
Mr. Windom was described by former colleagues as a diligent, aggressive lawyer capable of handling complex investigations. In his former job, Mr. Windom prosecuted some high-profile cases in Maryland — among them those involving domestic and international terrorism, public corruption and national security.
Just yesterday Feuer also reported additional details of the people involved in the planning coming from the J6 committee and where and whom else they way be looking into.
While the silence at DOJ has been pointed to as a possible sign of inaction or lack of aggression in following the planners of the insurrection, this a clear sign the DOJ is still working to in the words of Merrick Garland to hold “all January 6 perpetrators, at any level” accountable, if they were present at the Capitol that day or not, who were responsible for this “assault on our democracy”. Which suggests that Trump and some allies are in his sights.
This supports that contention.