Staff Report – A man from Lebanon Maine was arrested Thursday and appeared in U.S. District Court Friday on charges stemming from his assault on local law enforcement officers, as well as other crimes, during the riots at the U.S. Capitol on January 6 that disrupted a Joint Session of the U.S. Congress in the…
Staff Report – Another member of the Proud Boys, a nationalistic, chauvinist domestic terrorist organization, was arrested Thursday and charged in federal court in the District of Columbia with obstructing or impeding an official proceeding, among other charges, according to a press release from the U.S. Department of Justice. Ethan Nordean, aka Rufio Panman, 30,…
By Glynn Wilson – The New York Times is now reporting that the first “conspiracy” to obstruct Capitol Police and Congress charges have been filed against two members of the far-right nationalist group the Proud Boys as of Friday night, according to federal prosecutors investigating the violent riot and insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on…
By Glynn Wilson – Three individuals associated with the Oath Keepers, a radical right-wing paramilitary group focused on recruitment of current and former military, law enforcement and first responders, were indicted Thursday in federal court in the District of Columbia for conspiring to obstruct Congress in a violent insurrection on Jan. 6. Jessica Marie Watkins,…
By Glynn Wilson – In a break from the Trump years and a bit of a shock that should have come as no surprise, the new acting Secretary of Homeland Security David Pekoske ordered a National Terrorism Advisory Bulletin to be issued on Wednesday, warning of a heightened threat of violence from right-wing, racist domestic…
By Glynn Wilson – It’s now been three weeks since the violent insurrection and attempted coup on the part of the Trump cabal to upend the peaceful transition of power in America and halt Congress on Jan. 6 from certifying the Electoral College votes for the clear winner of the election, President Joe Biden. This…
Staff Report – More charges and arrests are coming to light in the violent attack on the United States Capitol on Jan. 6 from the U.S. Department of Justice, according to press releases just out from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, in spite of a report out from The Washington Post over the weekend that…
Sunday Reader – By Glynn Wilson – It’s been two and a half weeks since the traumatic events in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 6 when a violent insurrection was staged at the United States Capitol building in an attempted coup to take over the government and overthrow democracy itself. While the insurrection was thwarted in…
Staff Report – The FBI Jacksonville Field Office has taken Jesus Rivera of Pensacola, Florida, into custody for his role in the riot and assault on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia has charged Rivera with knowingly entering or remaining in a restricted building or…
Staff Report – More and more participants in the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol Jan. 6 are being investigated and arrested every day, and law enforcement officers are focusing on right-wing militia groups and Republicans for leading the unprecedented acts of sedition and coup attempt in the nation’s capital. Kentucky Man Arrested and Charged…
Staff Report – Two off-duty Rocky Mount, Virginia police officers were charged this week in federal court in the District of Columbia in connection with the riots at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021. Jacob Fracker and Thomas Robertson were charged with one count of knowingly entering or remaining in a restricted building…
By Glynn Wilson – House Speaker Nanci Pelosi didn’t waste any time in pursing a second article of impeachment against lame duck president Donald Trump after coming very close to being assassinated in the United State Capitol building last Wednesday by an armed and dangerous insurrectionist militia ordered to storm up Capitol Hill by a…
Evidence Suggests The Insurrection on Jan. 6 was Not a Spur of the Moment Accident: It was An Attempted Overthrow of American Democracy and Almost Succeeded Breaking News Analysis – By Glynn Wilson – There is no way that the failure of law enforcement and the military to protect the United States Capitol building on…
By Glynn Wilson – Two more men were charged in federal court in the District of Columbia on Monday in connection with the riots at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, Jan. 6, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Larry Rendell Brock, of Texas, was charged with one count of knowingly entering or remaining in…
By Glynn Wilson – Thirteen rioters have been charged so far with crimes committed at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday after a rally and march led by outgoing President Donald J. Trump turned into an insurrection that led to violence and death like nothing ever seen on American soil. In addition to those who have…
Senator Doug Jones of Alabama Says He’s Perplexed, Appalled By Trump and Attorney General William Barr – By Glynn Wilson – Donald J. Trump is far from the first American president to manipulate the justice system for partisan political purposes. But like everything else Trump does, his abuses of power are just far bigger and…
By Glynn Wilson – New American Journal Editorial Board – Former acting FBI director Andrew McCabe is an American hero who may one day soon get the credit he deserves as the key figure who saved American democracy from a Trump dictatorship. That is if we have the will to do what it takes to…
Four Iranians Also Charged With a Cyber Campaign Targeting U.S. Intel Officials – By Glynn Wilson – Russia is not the only country with teams of hackers targeting government computers in the United States in campaigns that threaten out cybersecurity. It just seems the president likes Russia and his Justice Department doesn’t like Iran. A…
By Glynn Wilson – President Donald J. Trump’s nominee for attorney general, William Barr, is expected to sail through the confirmation process in the majority-Republican United States Senate in the next few days, although some key Democrats will vote against him on substantive grounds, worried that he may limit the scope of Special Counsel Robert…
Experts say the nation’s cybersecurity could be deeply impacted with federal government workers on furlough and private contractors going without pay. SUNDAY READER – By Glynn Wilson — Celebrity President Donald J. Trump the propaganda master and magician is using his slight of hand again to command all the attention of the national news media…
