Patrick “Tate” Adamiak’s case, on initial reports in the media, looked like just another case of someone having something that, by law, they shouldn’t have. No, it shouldn’t be illegal to have literally any firearm you want, but it is, and the reporting of his conviction seemed straightforward. After all, he was convicted by a jury of his peers. That should be all the proof you need that he crossed the line, legally speaking.

Only since then, we’ve learned so much more about how prosecutors and the ATF lied to the jury about what they found when they raided the US Navy sailor’s home.

Lee Williams has done a lot of legwork looking at this case, and, honestly, it’s infuriating.

Now, Williams is turning up the heat in his latest piece on the case, titled “Former sailor should be pardoned, ATF agents should be charged.”

The ATF, federal prosecutors and what’s left of Joe Biden’s supporters in the federal government still want you to believe that their case against former U.S. Navy sailor Patrick “Tate” Adamiak is complex and confusing, involving convoluted weapon systems and rare gun parts that only a true firearm expert can fully understand. That is why Adamiak was found guilty and sentenced to 20 years in a federal prison, they would have you believe.

This, friends, is pure bunk.

We have examined the entire list of the guns and gun parts that were found after ATF decided to raid Adamiak’s home. Not a single item—not one—was illegal for him to possess. Some of the items that were actually used as evidence against him in court are laughable, or at least they would be if Adamiak wasn’t about to start the third year of his 20-year sentence.

Every single one of the items seized as evidence and used against him in court is still legally sold online. Most can be purchased without any paperwork because they are not firearms.

This is what the ATF does not want the public to know, that all their so-called illegal evidence was perfectly legal, and that all of their courtroom testimony was nothing but lies.

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This trial was the first for both Adamiak and Bodell, who at the time had been with the ATF for less than two years. Bodell’s newness showed.

If the ATF continues to allow Bodell’s misdeeds to stand and takes no disciplinary or criminal action against him, it will cease being a federal law enforcement agency. Instead, in the opinion of very many, the ATF will remain nothing but a bunch of brazen thugs with badges and guns, who don’t care about anyone’s civil rights, as long as they can make an arrest.

We shouldn’t have the animosity toward the ATF we have as gun owners, but they freaking deserve every bit of it.

They earn our ire because rather than address the problem with black market gun sales, stolen guns, illegal importation and exportation of firearms and accessories like full-auto switches, or anything of the type, they roll in and harass gun stores, monitor law-abiding citizens’ gun purchases, using facial recognition software to keep an eye on who is doing what, and other gross overreaches.

What happened to Adamiak, though, isn’t like those things. This is worse. It’s arguably worse in some ways than what they did to Randy Weaver. He was entrapped to make a sawed-off shotgun, but he at least made it. Adamiak’s stuff was all perfectly legal. There was nothing illegal about it. What makes Weaver’s case worse is the murder of his loved ones.

Thankfully, Adamiak wasn’t physically hurt.

However, a man who was serving our nation and was working toward becoming a Navy SEAL likely has a lot less trust in the country he served, which would be understandable.

But Bodell’s actions go beyond the pale. This isn’t an inexperienced agent just making a mistake. This is an agent who got away with blatantly lying about what was recovered in an attempt to secure a conviction. That’s a willful action, and qualified immunity shouldn’t apply in any way. Prosecution needs to be on the table and he’s the one who should be doing 20 years, not Adamiak.