Two Virginia judges and Arlington County Commonwealth’s Attorney Parisa Dehghani-Tafti have restricted federal investigators from examining the cellphone of activist Barbara Wien, who allegedly doxed Stephen Miller, Donald Trump’s White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy, and his family.
The Justice Department had sought access to Wien’s phone to determine whether she coordinated with others in targeting Miller and his relatives.
Magistrate Judge Lindsey Vaala denied the FBI’s request for a search warrant earlier this week, according to Axios.
LAWFARE: Three Democrat women - the judge (Lindsey Vaala), the prosecutor (Parisa Dehghani-Tafti), and the stalker (Barbara Wien) colluded to BLOCK investigation into the stalker's threats against Stephen Miller and his family. The Biden-appointed judge blocked FBI search… pic.twitter.com/3HDe7iax05
— @amuse (@amuse) November 8, 2025
Federal officials argued that Wien’s communications could reveal whether a wider network of activists was involved in threatening or stalking Miller.
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Wien, a 66-year-old academic and self-described peace studies scholar, has been accused of placing flyers in her Arlington neighborhood that displayed Miller’s home address.
The flyers contained his photo with a red circle and line drawn through it and read, “NO NAZIS IN NOVA.”
A QR code on the flyers linked to the activist group Arlington Neighbors United for Humanity.
BREAKING: Judges Lindsey Vaala & Judith Wheat block FBI probe into stalker doxxing Stephen Miller’s family, denying warrant to search Barbara Wien’s phone. After flyers exposed Miller’s address and a threat, DOJ plans to appeal. Bias or free speech? pic.twitter.com/AZVe0LbgnO
— 𝐃𝐔𝐓𝐂𝐇 (@pr0ud_americans) November 7, 2025
Video evidence from the Secret Service reportedly shows Wien walking outside Miller’s residence and making a gesture toward his wife by pointing two fingers from her eyes toward the home.
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The incident occurred 24 hours after the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk in Utah, according to case records.
Katie Miller, Steven Millers wife, speaks out against the people trying to intimidate her family. The attacks on Conservatives by the Left has got to stop. Criminal charges need to happen. Allowing these left wing radicals to continue without consequences is not acceptable. We… pic.twitter.com/mXl0qZpDPe
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The FBI initially seized Wien’s phone on October 1 as part of its investigation but said she misled agents during questioning.
Investigators requested another warrant to review the phone’s contents, but Judge Vaala declined to approve it.
Vaala previously made political donations to former Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden before being appointed to the bench.
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In a separate proceeding weeks earlier, Dehghani-Tafti, a Democratic prosecutor elected in 2019, supported Wien’s defense motion to restrict what data the FBI could access.
Her argument convinced another Virginia judge to limit the scope of the federal search.
A senior Trump administration official expressed frustration with the outcome, saying, “The position of the judge and the justice system in Northern Virginia is, Stephen Miller deserves this, so it shouldn’t be investigated. This is just about gathering evidence to see if there should be an arrest. And the judges are blocking it.”
Wien’s attorney maintains that she did not commit any crimes and characterized her as an academic focused on nonviolence.
Federal law enforcement officials, however, continue to treat the incident as a potential threat against a protected person.
“A lot of administration officials feel it's a problem that you have to live in Virginia or D.C. or Maryland. But the criminal justice system will not protect you and your family,” a White House official said of the case.
Many former Trump officials have relocated to secure housing after repeated doxing and harassment incidents.
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Dehghani-Tafti’s social media accounts have drawn scrutiny for containing negative posts about both President Trump and Miller, as well as for following the same activist group linked to Wien.
Responding to questions from Axios, the prosecutor said, “[I] performed my duties with integrity and objectivity, and I continue to do so. I have acted in every way to uphold the rule of law.”
A counselor to Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin said the prosecutor’s involvement was highly irregular.
“A prosecutor is usually on the same team as the investigators trying to make a case,” the counselor told Axios.
“But in this case, it's the opposite. She’s been stymying the investigation, it appears.”
The case remains open as the FBI weighs further options to pursue the investigation.
Federal officials have not indicated whether they plan to appeal the warrant denial or seek other avenues to review Wien’s communications.
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The second worst thing the country ever did was give women the vote and allow them to hold office as it comes back to haunt the country time and time again.
Women are not the problem. Leftists of both genders are. Eliminate the leftists, restore freedom.
There is no known cure for the weak minds infected with the WOKE MIND VIRUS . . .
Liberal women are a concern. Nearly 90% of them vote (D) and hate Trump. They have zero objectivity or tolerance when it comes to Conservatives. But they’ll fight for transgenders transitioning children. They’ll fight for the Islamization of America. They’ll fight for abortion. They’ll fight for Antifa’s right to riot and create mayhem. Plenty of tolerance for that.
They’ve been given over to a reprobate mind.
wrong, that is much too broad of a brush
when it is “communist democrat and DEI women” not all women.
It might seem broad in general but when we look a voting history, it paints a bleaker picture. 84% of women between 18-24 years old voted for Mamdani in NYC. In the last two state elections over 66% of women voted for the left candidates. Let’s face it, any woman on this site is not in the majority of women. Look at the most vocal anti-Trump haters and who shows up?
The time is LONG overdue for the justice department to REMOVE ANY AND ALL so-called “judges” that are apparently ignoring the rule of LAW, the U.S Constitution, their SWORN oath of office in order to “rule” by their “personal feelings” as well as their “political preferences”
PAM BONDI are you hearing THIS?? Get off the “talk shows”, and start doing your damn JOB
Unfortunately that’s not how you remove bad judges.
The time is LONG overdue for We The People — that is, We The LEGAL Americans — to start acting, as our Founders intended and designed our NATION, in much larger numbers … as FREE CITIZENS, with both RIGHTS and DUTIES, rather than CONTROLLED SUBJECTS; which means, in the context of this reply, to start voting into office ONLY those candidates for political offices of State authority … who understand, advocate, promote, and protect … our American Founding Fundamental Principles.
So, until We The People, in much larger numbers, START DOING OUR DUTIES … just put aside your complaints about Bondi and all the others — hoping for them to do what you want them to do is fantasy — and you and I, and all other PRO-USA CITIZENS need to increase our efforts regarding UNIFYING this NATION on the Supreme Terms and Conditions upon which it was founded — American Founding Fundamental Principles — and to vote into office ONLY those candidates who work for the same.
In our NATION, as founded, it is We The People who are to be IN CHARGE … but such works ONLY IF We The People are willing to do our collective DUTIES.
Other than the one in the mirror, there is NO ARMY coming to save us. As our FOUNDERS informed us those 250 years ago, the BUCK STOPS WITH WE THE PEOPLE … and we must stop blaming others.
If not, then, sooner rather than later, our NATION will be transformed fundamentally from one of FREE CITIZENS to one of CONTROLLED SUBJECTS.
Such is ENTIRELY UP TO US … We The PRO-USA People.
understand her job before criticizing the way she does it, moron
SCOTUS is going to be very busy, so busy maybe they will finally reign in these tyrannical seditious Judges, lawyers and prosecutors
??? Isn’t stalking against the law?
Why have judges turned away from adjudicating according to established law?
This needs to be investigated and the stalker needs to be charged again under a higher court.
Violence begets violence. Liberal judges protecting those who attack and kill those on the right will bring about Right Wing Death Squads that will protect those on the right. The USA no longer lives by the rule of law. Judges legislate from the bench destroying what was a free country that live by the rule of law and the US constitution.
We’ve got Socialist judges not allowing investigations now. They already let out murderers on no bail/no monitoring. They allow mass looting of stores. They allow people to shoot at ICE and FBI personnel. They allow rioting, arson, and street takeovers, and it’s only the Left involved in them.
Donation to Barack Obama is a clear indica
These judges are criminals arrest them
Maybe we need to print flyers, walk in front of this woman’s home and make hand gestures. We will find out if these criminal judges follow the same understanding of the law for conservatives. Investigate these judges.