Cole Allen's federal docket has produced no public filings since Wednesday's detention waiver, when defense attorney Tezira Abe told Magistrate Judge Moxila Upadhyaya her client was "conceding detention at this time." [1] The Apr 30 paper carried the waiver and the Hilton-as-operating-ground line in the charging documents; Friday's record adds nothing. The preliminary hearing remains scheduled for May 11 at 1:30 p.m. before the same magistrate. [2]

The single count is unchanged — attempted assassination of a presidential candidate or successor under 18 U.S.C. § 1751. The U.S. Marshals Service's twenty-four-hour lockdown question sits under advisement; CBS News reported overnight that Allen is being held inside the D.C. jail's Correctional Treatment Facility on a "safe-cell" placement. [3]

The same-Thursday architecture remains the political fact. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche's office produced both the Allen detention waiver and the Comey re-indictment in the Eastern District of North Carolina on a single weekday. The May 11 prelim falls eleven days inside the FISA Section 702 forty-five-day stopgap and three days after the Pentagon's first scheduled Senate hearing on the Iran war. [4]

The Iran-nexus theory absent from Wednesday's docket remains absent Friday. Investigators have not publicly named a foreign-government tie. The detention hearing's documentary silence is now the docket's documentary silence. The prelim is the next time a federal judge looks at this case under oath.

-- SAMUEL CRANE, Washington