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DOJ seems close to rolling out more details of the plot, seemingly led at the Capitol by the Proud Boys, to overrun the Capitol. Whether it can get from there to those who incited such acts remains to be seen.

One reason the warrant affidavits targeting Project Veritas won't be unsealed is because "not all of that conduct" of Project Veritas employees, "may be criminal."

A screen cap in the arrest affidavit for Josiah Kenyon makes clear why the Capitol Police have resisted widespread release of surveillance video from January 6. Over the course of two hours, liquids thrown inside the Tunnel and the change of light with the setting sun made the video almost useless for capturing Kenyon's alleged crime on video.

One of the guys Ethan Nordean recruited to stand "on the front line" with him on January 6 played a key role in breaching the East side of the building.

In the face of Republicans' unrelenting attack on democracy, expert commentators who support democracy have a choice: They can defend the rule of law and shame those who have denigrated it, or they can spend their time complaining about the guy trying, however imperfectly, to defend it himself. The latter will make Garland less able to do his job, the former will help him do whatever he is willing to do.

The story the FBI tells about its investigation into Proud Boy affiliate Lisa Homer (née Boisselle) starts with a Google GeoFence and seems to end in a love story wrapped up inside an insurrection.

In a piece talking about disinformation other than the Steele dossier, Ben Smith seems really sanguine that he can tell political dirty tricks from disinformation.

Those with a platform would be better off defending the rule of law -- selling independents and moderate Republicans on the import of the January 6 investigation -- than whining that the investigation is not proceeding quickly enough.

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