Far-Right Paramilitary Member Warned 1/6 Committee Witness Against Speaking Out

[Nevilledog]

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In a phone call last month, a member of a far-right paramilitary group warned an Arizona woman who gave congressional investigators information about the outfit’s efforts to push Donald Trump’s Big Lie that she might be hurt or killed if she continued to speak out.

“You put shit out there. You follow people around and take pictures,” Michael Kenny, a member of 1st Amendment Praetorian, or 1AP, a shadowy group of former military members that has worked with former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, told Staci Burk on the March 1 call. “You talk a lot publicly, and that’s what makes you a target.” Burk is onetime Republican activist who is now studying for her law degree.

“There was a number of people, you ruffled their feathers,” Kenny said moments later. “If you put anybody in jeopardy of prison time, or you know, if you might hurt them financially or whatever, people get edgy, you know? People don’t think clearly. You need to think about the easy way.”

Burk said that she considered this call, during which Kenny mentioned the possibility she could be murdered, a death threat. She reported the call to the FBI, she told me. She said it was the most overt of a series of threats she received after news outlets revealed that she was cooperating with the select committee investigating the January 6 attack. Burk recorded the conversation and shared the audio with Mother Jones.

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[MagickMuffin]

1. Hello DOJ, line 1

The FEDS need to pay Michael Kenny a visit and new digs in the crowbar hotel.

[empedocles]

2. Hopefully kenny is already under investigation

[LastDemocratInSC]

3. Mafia tactics. Birds of a feather.

[jalan48]

4. These folks are waiting in the wings if the Republicans take over. I doubt a Republican AG

will go after them.

[gab13by13]

5. Won't be a Putin party AG until at least 2025.

Sounds like witness tampering isn't a strong enough charge.

[jalan48]

7. Like climate change it's happening right before our eyes. I guess we will have to go through the

magical thinking stage before we get down to action.

[calimary]

13. And a Hurricane donald back inside the White House would blow it all away.

GOTTA get out the vote!

If we don’t, we’re NOT going to like what we’re left with.

[jalan48]

14. We got a glimpse of the future on January 6th. Voting and holding Trump and his cabal accountable

are a must.

[Stuart G]

6. K and R

[AllaN01Bear]

8. paramilatary my eye . terrorist groups . nothing military about them and o

witness tampering charges here .

[bringthePaine]

9. so sick of this organized crime shit! where the fuck is the RICO squad?

[KS Toronado]

10. This helps prove Rs are a Fascist cult

Step out of line and we will kill you for thinking you could think for yourself, we will tell you what to think
and say. Adam Kinzinger & Liz Cheney have probably been on the receiving end of this kind of shit also.

[rickford66]

11. Once a GQP president gets elected, there's pardons all around.

So they don't care.

[AZLD4Candidate]

12. I don't believe there will be. These tools' usefulness willl be over.

They will languish.