Top DC Prosecutor Likens Jan. 6 Cases to Japanese Internment (1)

Washington’s lead prosecutor announced his investigation into Capitol riot prosecutions has “expanded in scope” and compared the government’s use of an obstruction statute against rioters to Japanese internment.

Ed Martin, interim US attorney for the District of Columbia, told staff in an officewide email Friday that the office has “been asked” to probe leaks that he said took place during Jan. 6 cases and damaged parties, witnesses, and law enforcement officers, as part of his internal investigation into certain prosecutions of participants in the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the US Capitol.

“It was bad all around,” he wrote in ...