Posted on 06/23/2021 9:55:13 AM PDT by weston
Dan wore a wire for the first time, traveling to the event with Musico, Morrison, and Bellar. The men were decked out in ballistic body armor, brandishing pistols and AR-15 assault rifles — de rigueur for the hundreds of protesters amassing in Lansing that morning. They were there, Morrison and Musico said, to recruit new members, but around noon, as they milled among the crowd, Dan started hearing whispers about storming the Capitol.
Less than two weeks earlier, the Watchmen had built a mock-up of a house using PVC tubing, and Dan helped show them how to push inside before clearing each room — techniques he’d learned in the Army. The Watchmen referred to it as a “kill house.” Now, outside the Capitol, it appeared they might be preparing to put that training to use — this time with hundreds of state police standing between them and the imposing renaissance revival building.
Panic rising, Dan slipped away from the group for a moment and spoke into the recording device he was carrying, which he knew was being monitored live by his FBI handlers. The Watchmen, he said, were preparing to breach the Capitol. The agents couldn’t speak back to him, but he hoped they could at least warn the police about what was coming.
Then something surprising happened. The Michigan State Police stood down and let the protesters — including those in full tactical gear — enter the building unopposed. They could even bring their guns, so long as they submitted to a temperature check for COVID-19
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kenbensinger/michigan-kidnapping-gretchen-whitmer-fbi-informant
Part of a long story about the FBI entrapment of would be kidnappers.
This belongs in the “Stranger Than Fiction” column.
So true!
GREAT!!!!
Thank you for the info.
This is going to be fun now!
If Larry wins, it would be amazing & could possibly, maybe, hopefully turn the tide in CA
As a matter of law, convincing people with no prior intention to commit crimes is known as entrapment and is to be strenuously avoided by law enforcement. Federal agents and informants are instead supposed to passively develop evidence against people who are already “predisposed” to do illegal things, serving only as the eyes and ears of the prosecution.
In practical terms, however, confidential informants enjoy tremendous leeway to get the goods. Informants in cases over recent decades have badgered suspects into committing crimes, paid them large sums of money to do so, and even threatened to hurt them if they backed out, according to an analysis by Jesse Norris, a professor of criminal justice at the State University of New York at Fredonia. In not one of those instances was the prosecution forced to drop the case.
Robeson, known as Robey, was a heavily tattooed biker with a shaggy tuft of beard springing from his chin. Both Deeter and Leager called him “brother.” But there was a lot they didn’t know about him, including the fact that he had a lengthy criminal record. By the time he was 20, Robey had been busted for car theft and soon added battery, possession of stolen property, forgery, disorderly conduct, theft, writing worthless checks, sex with a minor, bail jumping, and insurance fraud to his rap sheet.
And they definitely had no inkling that in March 1985, in an arson and murder trial of members of a notorious biker gang called the Ghost Riders, Robey had testified — for the prosecution.
According to court records, Robey had helped the government put people away at least three times in the 1980s and again in 2005, when he provided information about a farmer who was seeking to pay someone to kill a romantic rival or leave him “crippled for life.” Under direction from the Eau Claire police, Robeson told the farmer he’d put him in touch with someone who could do the job. That turned out to be an undercover police officer, who over lunch at a restaurant recorded the farmer offering a hay baler in exchange for the act of violence. The farmer eventually pleaded guilty to solicitation of battery.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kenbensinger/michigan-kidnapping-gretchen-whitmer-fbi-informant
So sad, poor guy.
Good news. It would be great to have Larry Elder as governor of California.
You know I can understand the need for the FIB to infiltrate groups but to drive the action is going way too far.
“An examination of the case by BuzzFeed News also reveals that some of those informants, acting under the direction of the FBI, played a far larger role than has previously been reported. Working in secret, they did more than just passively observe and report on the actions of the suspects. Instead, they had a hand in nearly every aspect of the alleged plot, starting with its inception. The extent of their involvement raises questions as to whether there would have even been a conspiracy without them.”
Hard to believe that this article is in Buzzfeed.
Great news!
what no good are those two up to now?
It would really be amazing if he wins.
Everyone who believes Gates and Soros are doing this to serve mankind should just send all their money to Soros to help him save the world.
The rest of us should keep this old adage in mind:
We Might Be Paranoid But That Doesn't Mean They Aren't Really Out To Get Us
Remember Whitey Buglar, the FBI informant that was working for FBI while still committing crime? The FBI just released heavily redacted records of his.
FBI releases trove of heavily redacted records on James ‘Whitey’ Bulger
BOSTON (AP) — The FBI has released hundreds of pages of records from notorious Boston mobster James “Whitey” Bulger’s file.
The Boston Herald reports the 300 pages of heavily redacted records show the agency was aware that Bulger was involved in loan-sharking, horse-fixing, and other crimes before recruiting him as an informant.
The FBI says the records were posted on the agency’s Vault public records database earlier this month and will be the first in a series of records released on Bulger.
Bulger led a largely Irish mob that ran loan-sharking, gambling and drug rackets in the Boston area.
He was convicted in 2013 in connection with a series of gangland slayings and other crimes while also working as an FBI informant who ratted on the New England mob, his gang’s main rival.
Bulger fled Boston in late 1994 after his FBI handler warned him he was about to be indicted and was one of America’s most wanted men before being arrested in California in 2011.
Bulger was killed in federal prison in West Virginia in 2018. Authorities have not charged anyone with his killing, but law enforcement officials said at the time that two Massachusetts mobsters were suspects.
https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2021/07/19/fbi-records-james-whitey-bulger/
Cheney needs to shut up and sit down!
Chad Pergram
@ChadPergram
1) Cheney on 1/6 cmte: Today the speaker objected to two Republican members, she accepted three others she objected to two, one of whom may well be a material witness to events that led to that day, that led to January 6
2) Cheney: The other who disqualified himself by his comments in particular over the last 24 hours demonstrating that he is not taking this seriously.
3) Cheney: The rhetoric around this from the Minority Leader and from those two members has been disgraceful
4) Cheney: At every opportunity, the Minority Leader has attempted to prevent the American people from understanding what happened to block this investigation.
5) Cheney on McCarthy: Any person who would be third in line to the presidency, must demonstrate a commitment to the Constitution and a commitment to the rule of law and Minority Leader McCarthy has not done that.
https://twitter.com/ChadPergram/status/1417957817240203278
Wasn’t that jerk lawyer, Andrew Weissmann, involved with the Bulger case?
In the 1970s and ‘80s, FBI agent John Connolly used gangster Whitey Bulger as an informant and credited him with helping bring down the Mafia in Boston. However, Connolly also broke the law himself to protect Bulger. Connolly’s actions were uncovered in the 1990s, and he was eventually convicted of racketeering and second-degree murder. The corrupt relationship between Connolly and Bulger is depicted in the 2015 film Black Mass.
https://www.biography.com/crime-figure/john-connolly
Or was it that other jerk lawyer, Robert Mueller?
Dan Crenshaw
@DanCrenshawTX
Imagine if 50 GOP state reps skipped work, drank beer on a private jet while ignoring federal mask mandates, held a press conference to spread flagrant lies that’ve been debunked, and then infected the Speaker’s Office and White House with COVID. Just imagine.
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