A retired Navy intelligence officer, who was recently acquitted of the most serious charges in his U.S. Capitol attack trial alongside Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, received his sentence on Friday. Thomas Caldwell was cleared by a jury in Washington's federal court of seditious conspiracy and two other conspiracy offenses related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack. One of the two counts he was found guilty of was dismissed following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last year.
During the trial, prosecutors alleged that Caldwell assisted in coordinating “quick reaction force” teams for the Oath Keepers stationed outside the capital city to potentially provide weapons to extremists if needed. However, these weapons were never deployed, and the Oath Keepers' defense lawyers argued that they were present solely for defensive purposes in case of attacks from left-wing activists.
