re: 'Fake' agents who 'infiltrated WH Secret Service' will be RELEASED from custody

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Buy this book and read it. You need to be honest with yourself. Escaping the rabbit hole.

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For example, on page 236 he talks about claims that Russia influenced the 2016 presidential elections. He clearly believes they did but what is his proof? First, he says "the intelligence community and most of Congress seems to have little doubt that Russian influence happened" and states that any opposition to this is "exactly what you'd expect if there was actually a Russian troll army steering discourse on the topic". In other words, West's "facts" and "logic" consists of simply believing whatever the government tells him is true.

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During his hourlong ruling, Harvey lambasted the Justice Department's claims that the men were dangerous, were trying to compromise agents and were tied to a foreign government.

The government made "no showing that national security information was in fact compromised," Harvey said of Ali and Taherzadeh's interactions with members of the Secret Service, nor that "other sensitive information was in fact compromised, or that was the intention of the defendants when they gave the gifts in the first place."

"There is no evidence of foreign ties in this case," Harvey said, adding that there was no "suggestion that any foreign government that is hostile to the United States" was involved in the alleged plot.

Harvey also noted that Ali and Taherzadeh did not appear to have ever paid their rent and had been appointed public defenders, suggesting that they did not have access to the funds normally expected from foreign agents.

The evidence instead suggested that "the defendants' impersonation of federal officers was, as Mr. Ali said in his (FBI) interview, that they 'just wanted to feel on the same level' as the real federal agents," Harvey said.

Prosecutors had argued that both men posed a danger to the community because of the cache of weapons investigators found at their Washington, DC, residence. They also argued that Taherzadeh had deleted evidence on his social media page and may try to further obstruct the investigation, and that Ali posed a flight risk.

US Secret Service members stationed at the White House, on the first lady's security detail and at the vice president's residence were connected to two men arrested last week for allegedly impersonating Homeland Security agents, prosecutors said Tuesday at a federal court hearing.

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An investigator with the United States Secret Service (USSS) sent an email to Taherzadeh at an address ending in 'ussp.us' – supposedly standing for United State Special Police, which is the name of an LLC created by the suspects.

That email, which Taherzadeh responded to, was the message that inadvertently caused the defendant and his co-defendant to suspect an investigation into their ruse.

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