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There's some indication that DOJ is letting cooperative January 6 defendants plead down from felony counts. Kevin Creek, whose alleged "multiple assaults" and civil disorder charge became a single assault charge after he provided "substantial cooperation" is the latest example.

When Sheldon Whitehouse asked Merrick Garland whether DOJ was following the funders of the January 6 riot yesterday, Garland replied that DOJ was using all the techniques that Whitehouse would have used from his time as a US Attorney, and then some.

Why is it only after the August 2021 election of a new Westchester County district attorney took office was the possibility of tax and insurance fraud finally investigated? Why are 10 other courses going unexamined?

When DOD's General Counsel hired Mike Ellis, Paul Nakasone had some concerns based off his interaction over the John Bolton book. Then, in the days after January 6, two security incidents involving Ellis vindicated those concerns.

Eric Swalwell tried to grill Attorney General Garland on whether DOJ would reconsider the OLC memo holding that a sitting President cannot be indicted. Garland dodged answering any specific question. But along the way he laid out some principles that he might apply regarding the investigation of a former President. 

In response to Michael Sussmann's motion for a Bill of Particulars, John Durham effectively admitted that he has no evidence Sussmann himself coordinated directly with the Clinton Campaign before (he alleges) lying to hide coordination with the Clinton

In Zach Rehl's blow-by-blow of the riot, he described the breach of the Capitol as a civil war.

DOJ settled Andrew McCabe's lawsuit yesterday. By doing so, DOJ will bury key details of how Donald Trump politicized DOJ.

January 6 defense attorney Marina Medvin spends lots of time accusing people of being terrorists on Twitter. It's an interesting habit for an attorney whose client, yesterday, pled guilty to a plea agreement that reserves the right to ask for a terrorist enhancement at sentencing.

By using his bond reconsideration hearing to lay out a bunch of transparent excuses about his own actions, Brandon Fellows exhibited for Trump appointed judge Trevor McFadden how much bullshit and false victimization January 6 defendants are spewing.