After Meeting With Alex Jones, Top DOJ Official Threatens Sandy Hook First Responder With Criminal Probe

Ed Martin, the head of the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) vague weaponization task force, in a recent letter threatened to open a criminal investigation into a now-retired FBI special agent who sued the far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones over Jones’ lies about a mass school shooting.

Martin’s threat toward the agent came a day after Jones posted a picture of himself and Martin together. It marks the latest step in the Trump administration’s dangerous push to use the federal government to target its political opponents and protect its allies.

The agent, William Aldenberg, was among the first law enforcement officials to respond to the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut, which killed 26 people, including 20 children between six and seven years old.

A Connecticut jury in 2022 found Jones liable for defaming Aldenberg and the families of eight victims by repeatedly claiming on his radio show Infowars that the massacre was a “false flag” operation planned by the government using “crisis actors” to undermine gun rights. The jury ordered Jones to pay plaintiffs over $1 billion in damage, which he still has yet to pay.

In a recent letter to Chris Mattei, Aldenberg’s attorney, Martin questioned whether the agent joined the lawsuit for personal benefit and suggested that he could be criminally prosecuted.

“As you may know, there are criminal laws protecting the citizens from actions by government employees who may be acting for personal benefit,” Martin wrote to Mattei.

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