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Caldwell, 70, of Berryville, Va., was neither an Oath Keeper nor a leader of the organization made up of military veterans, law enforcement officials, and first responders. Nor did his colorful language and pointed statements in private messages and on social media constitute a plot to attack the Capitol. But that did not stop the…
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A week after Empower Oversight sent a history of his case to the FBI with a request to reconsider the bureau’s revocation of his security clearance, O’Boyle said while he struggles with the painful delays, he uses his experience to talk to people about Jesus Christ and the faith that sustains him and his family.
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Former Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell and Officer Harry Dunn professed honesty but did not practice it in the case of the dying Georgia woman. By Joseph M. Hanneman Blaze Media || Feb. 26, 2025 “Never tell lies.” Those three words are perched atop the opening paragraph of “American Shield,” the 2023 autobiography of former…
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Texas filmmaker Luke Coffee took a direct blow to the left arm from Metropolitan Police Department Officer Lila Morris on Jan. 6, 2021, yet it was Coffee who was found guilty of assaulting the notorious D.C. officer who seconds later savagely beat Rosanne Boyland with a hardened walking stick, multiple videos viewed by Blaze News…
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Sarah McAbee and her mother, Kim, came forward in the bitter minus-18-degree weather to rescue Colt McAbee after he spent 1,252 days in government custody, brought on by a criminal prosecution that was marred by bald-faced lies. After a handshake with Orum, McAbee was off to live his life again.
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Colt McAbee keenly feels the irony of his living situation. The former Georgia and Tennessee sheriff’s deputy and onetime prison guard now wears a different uniform from the ones he pinned his badge to for seven years — tan work clothes issued to inmates at the Federal Medical Center run by the U.S. Bureau of…
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More than four years after January 6, US District Judge Amit Mehta sentences Caldwell to time served and a $100 fine. By Joseph M. Hanneman Blaze Media || Jan. 14, 2025 The way Tom Caldwell figures it, his own government wanted him to die. He said he was tortured during his intake at the Central…
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Now-Captain Michael Byrd also given favorable treatment, including $36,000 retention bonus and $21,000 in home security upgrades. By Joseph M. Hanneman Blaze Media || Nov. 22, 2024 The U.S. Capitol Police officer who shot and killed Ashli Babbitt on January 6 once fired his service weapon at fleeing vehicles near his home while his neighbor…
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The pair later met secretly with U.S. Capitol Police at the edge of Capitol grounds and shared at least one video clip as evidence before the Babbitt shooting investigation was even officially under way. Capitol Police did not make a video or audio recording of their talks with the men. One of the men sat…
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Thomas Caldwell’s attorney said his client is ‘more akin to a loud-mouth Walter Mitty than the Rambo-type figure the government has portrayed him.’ By Joseph M. Hanneman Blaze Media || Nov. 5, 2024 When federal agents raided the rural Virginia farm of Thomas Caldwell on Jan. 19, 2021, they were sure he was a kingpin…