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The Lawfare Podcast

Ryan J. Reilly on the Sedition Hunters

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4.76.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Three weeks ago, an amazing new book came out about the prosecutions stemming from the Capitol Siege of Jan. 6, 2021. It’s called "Sedition Hunters: How January 6th Broke the Justice System."

Lawfare Senior Editor Roger Parloff sat down with the book’s author, Ryan J. Reilly, who is also the Justice Reporter at NBC News. They discussed who the Sedition Hunters are, how Ryan stumbled across them, and why they’ve played such a crucial role in the Jan. 6 criminal investigation.  

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Check the Uber app. But it was sort of piecing this together off of various videos because we didn't have any context but we knew now okay

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there was this this incident that he was involved in what he had said in the

1:09.2

paperwork that day is that he was punched and then hit with a pole.

1:13.0

And that's sort of what he had described to his wife as well,

1:15.5

that he was hit and then also he got hit with a pole later that night.

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There are two sort of separate incidents.

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And so from there, they were able to identify a DC chiropractor who was wearing this

1:26.4

distinctive jacket, this motorcycle jacket, when he stormed the capital, which was sort of

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surprising because you know you wouldn't

1:33.8

imagine someone who lived a couple blocks from the capital getting sucked into this but

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he was this sort of in that conspiracy world and had posted things about you know the election and being stolen was a big sort of COVID

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denier.

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And so he had even done an interview, I think, a man on the street interview the day after January 6th

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