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Now it is the Jan. 6 prosecutors who are under investigation.

They were the government prosecutors who jailed those who trespassed at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. They are the ones who piled charges on top of charges, including the inappropriate claims about trespassers "obstructing" the government. They are the ones who demanded long prison sentences for those who did nothing more than walk into the building, often through doors held open for them by security officers.

It is the Epoch Times that reports a federal prosecutor confirmed recently "he's investigating why federal prosecutors brought a felony obstruction charge against hundreds of people involved in the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol."

It is Ed Martin, the interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, who has directed employees to hand over files, emails and other documents that address the issue.

He described the use of the obstruction charge, a felony that later was disallowed by the Supreme Court, as "a great failure of our office."

Of course, piling on charges, demanding no release before trial, insisting on long prison terms, and more aligned with the Democrat agenda of describing the incidents that day as the greatest "insurrection" against America since the Civil War.

Actually, it was a protest that got out of hand when a few hundred rioted. Protesters were objecting to what they saw as an unfair election system that, in fact, was under pressure from several undue Democrat influences, including the FBI's election interference.

"We need to get to the bottom of it," Martin explained in his messaging.

He's calling it the "1512 Project," because the offense falls under that section of the law, said the report, which explained Section 1512 of U.S. law bars people from obstructing, influencing, or impeding any official proceeding, or attempting to do so. It carries a prison term of up to 20 years.

Hundreds of the protesters on Capitol grounds that day were faced with that charge. Former policeman Joseph Fischer challenged that, and the Supreme Court said prosecutors were applying the law incorrectly.

"On the government's theory, Section 1512(c) consists of a granular subsection (c)(1) focused on obstructive acts that impair evidence and an overarching subsection (c)(2) that reaches all other obstruction," said the opinion, from Chief Justice John Roberts. "Even setting surplusage aside, that novel interpretation would criminalize a broad swath of prosaic conduct, exposing activists and lobbyists alike to decades in prison."

The government already had been dropping those counts against defendants before President Donald Trump took office and pardoned some 1,500 prosecuted by government officials in the leftist jurisdiction of the Washington courts.

Martin has, the report said, watched thousands of hours of video from that day.

"If you watch it for a while you realize that 99.9% of it is normal people doing normal things: sauntering around and through the Capitol grounds and building," he has explained on blog postings.