WASHINGTON — A magistrate judge released a D.C. attorney and West Point graduate from jail Thursday, saying the government had “as close to zero” a chance as possible at demonstrating he was a danger to the community.

“This is perhaps one of the weakest requests for detention I have seen and something that, prior to two weeks ago, would have been unthinkable in this courthouse,” Magistrate Judge Zia M. Faruqui said.

Faruqui ordered Paul Anthony Bryant, a Columbia Law School alum who deployed to Afghanistan as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army Reserves, released from the D.C. Jail on minimal conditions. Bryant will have to surrender any firearms but was not ordered to hand over his passport.

Bryant first appeared in federal court Wednesday afternoon and was ordered temporarily held by

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