Jonathon Moseley, a lawyer representing a number of 1/6 defendants, has claimed the former Capitol Police Chief’s congressional testimony contradicts charges against up to 700 of the defendants.

Following the 1/6 protests on Capitol Hill, around 700 people were arrested and thrown into jail. Almost all of the detainees have been charged with the obstruction of an official proceeding, with the state arguing that the evacuation of the joint Congressional session was instigated by those who, mostly peacefully, entered the building.

However, Moseley, who represents multiple detainees from 1/6, pointed to testimony given by then-Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund to the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and the Rules and Administration Committee on February 23, based off a Feb 1 letter Sund sent to Pelosi.

Moseley argued that Sund in his testimony admitted that the real reason for the evacuation of the Capitol was due to a number of pipe bombs that the Capitol Police found, first at 12:52 in the afternoon at the RNC headquarters, and then at 1:50 near the DNC headquarters.

“The U.S. Capitol Police went up to the presiding officer at the podium and said, ‘there is a threat. Congress has a preexisting rule that allows immediate recess without a vote,'” Moseley told National File. “The Capitol Police advised the presiding officer of the Senate of the threat and therefore they immediately evacuated the room.”

As Sund confirmed to Republican Oklahoma Senator James Lankford, congressional buildings near the two pipe bombs, “the Cannon House office building, as well as one of the Library of Congress buildings,” were evacuated solely due to the explosive threat, and had nothing to do with anyone protesting nearby. (READ MORE: Trump Says ‘January 6 Was A Protest’ And ‘The Real Insurrection Took Place On November 3’)

Sund, without evidence, believed that “all of this was part of a coordinated plan related to the attack on the Capitol.” Lankford questioned this narrative. “Several of them out there that would take away resources at that moment,” he noted. “But there’s no way to know that they would find it at that exact moment.”

An investigation by National File discovered a section within Sund’s Feb 1 letter to Pelosi that seems to corroborate Moseley’s line of argument. Sund wrote that at 1:51, the Capitol Police began establishing priorities for officers, including securing the perimeter and foundation of the Capitol, and looking for more pipe bombs or similar devices.

“These goals were implemented as quickly as was possible in order to facilitate the safe and expeditious return of the Members of Congress to complete their certification of the electoral votes,” Sund wrote. However, the first protestor did not enter the Capitol building until 2:12, with the House not fully recessed until 2:29.

If the orders were given after 1:51 and before 2:12 with the end goal of getting the joint Congressional session back up, but the protestors were not yet an alleged threat, it may be logical to conclude that plans had already been set in motion to evacuate Congress because of the pipe bombs, as Moseley argued, meaning the 700 defendants could not reasonably be charged with obstruction.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released the first batch of documents related to Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine program after a federal judge ordered that they must comply with a massive FOIA request.

The request was filed by the Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparency group, which consists of more than 30 professors and scientists. They requested any and all data that factored into the agency’s decision to authorize Phizer’s vaccine for emergency use.

“The entire purpose of the FOIA is to assure government transparency,” the plaintiffs argue. “It is difficult to imagine a greater need for transparency than immediate disclosure of the documents relied upon by the FDA to license a product that is now being mandated to over 100 million Americans under penalty of losing their careers, their income, their military service status, and far worse.” The FDA was ordered to comply after challenging the request in court. The agency had previously stated they would need a whopping 55 years to process the request.

An official Pfizer document titled Cumulative Analysis of Post-Authorization Adverse Event Records Reports, obtained via the request, contains data on adverse reactions to the vaccine. According to the document, there were tens of thousands of adverse effects to the vaccine recorded over a 90-day period from December 1st. 2020 – February 28th, 2021.

Over this period, there were 1,403 cases of cardiovascular issues, accounting for 3.3% of the data set.

More alarmingly, there were also 1,223 recorded fatalities over the 90-day time period.

The data only included “serious” adverse effects. Any side effects deemed “non-serious” were to be processed within 90 days in a separate report. Data included in this document was also collected voluntarily, according to the document’s methodology section.

Nevertheless, the paper concludes that the “review of available data” deemed the vaccine safe and ready for market. Emergency use was authorized by the FDA soon after.

More documents will be released in the coming weeks. Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparency filed another motion that would force the FDA to expedite the release of requested documents.