Pardoned Jan. 6 Rioter Who Threatened Police Joins Justice Dept.

[highplainsdem]

Source: NYT

A former F.B.I. agent who was charged with encouraging the mob that stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, to kill police officers has been named as an adviser to the Justice Department task force that President Trump established to seek retribution against his political enemies.

The former agent, Jared L. Wise, is serving as a counselor to Ed Martin, the director of the so-called Weaponization Working Group, according to people familiar with the group’s activities.

Mr. Martin, a longtime supporter of Jan. 6 defendants, was put in charge of the weaponization group in May after Mr. Trump withdrew his name for a Senate-confirmed position as the U.S. attorney in Washington. His nomination faltered in part because of the work he had done as an advocate and defense lawyer for people charged in connection with the Capitol attack.

Even in a Justice Department that has often been pressed into serving Mr. Trump’s political agenda, the appointment of Mr. Wise to the weaponization task force was a remarkable development. His selection meant that a man who had urged violence against police officers was now responsible for the department’s official effort to exact revenge against those who had tried to hold the rioters accountable.

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Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/us/politics/justice-department-rioter-weaponization.html

[Initech]

1. Fucking what??? This asshole should be in prison!

[Karasu]

2. How is a country that allows this worth contributing to? He tried to overthrow the fucking government...

...and is being rewarded for it.

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. One problem is the Presidential pardon system - it's an invitation to corruption and lawlessness

and I can't think what the fuck the constitution writers were thinking when they worded it - idiots.

Another is, of course, the racism and various other forms of hatred that Republican voters feel, and which they chose the rapist Trump to carry out. Select a criminal psychopath, and he'll collect criminal psychopaths around him.

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. Wise's resumé is quite the journey through evil groups

Mr. Wise later joined the conservative group Project Veritas under the supervision of a former British spy, Richard Seddon, who had been recruited by the security contractor Erik Prince to train operatives to infiltrate trade unions, Democratic congressional campaigns and other targets.

At Project Veritas, according to a former employee with direct knowledge of his employment, Mr. Wise used the code name Benghazi and trained at the Prince family ranch in Wyoming with other recruits. Mr. Wise was among a group of Project Veritas operatives assigned to infiltrate teacher unions in Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan and Kentucky, according to the former employee. Mr. Seddon oversaw the operation.

[republianmushroom]

5. Dude fits the new standards for the Justice Dept. now.

[mdbl]

6. Sickening and disgusting

As usual