NY Times: “A Tennessee man already facing charges of assaulting a police officer during the storming of the Capitol last year was charged on Friday with plotting to assassinate several of the federal agents who had investigated him and to attack the F.B.I.’s field office in Knoxville, Tenn.
The plot by the man, Edward Kelley, 33, of Maryville, Tenn., was foiled this week by a witness who cooperated with the authorities and recorded him and a co-conspirator, Austin Carter, 26, of Knoxville, according to court papers filed in the case.
Mr. Kelley and Mr. Carter were charged with conspiracy, retaliating against a federal official, interstate communication of a threat and solicitation to commit a crime of violence. Both men were denied bail at a hearing on Friday in Federal District Court in Knoxville, the Justice Department said.
The inquiry into the assassination plot began on Tuesday, court papers said, when an unnamed acquaintance of Mr. Kelley gave the police in Maryville an envelope containing a document titled “The List” that he had gotten from Mr. Carter. The document bore the names of 37 people who had participated in the Jan. 6-related investigation of Mr. Kelley, the papers said, including law enforcement officers who were present at the arrest of Mr. Kelley and a search of his home in May.”