Really?
Posted on 10/18/2020 6:59:17 AM PDT by USA Conservative
Mainstream media is covering every nuance as best they can since this is being spun by Democrats as a way to blame President Trump for extremism. But one important detail from the bond hearings has been buried or altogether omitted from reporting. It’s the type of detail that has conspiracy theorists asking more questions.
Gary Springstead, a former FBI special agent turned criminal defense attorney, urged caution in accepting information from confidential sources in the plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
Other attorneys suggested informants pushed their clients into criminal activity.
“I think that … it’s difficult when you’re dealing with confidential sources because as much as the federal government, or state, local law enforcement want to control their behavior, they don’t control it,” Springstead said, outside of U.S. District Court in Grand Rapids.
“They give them rules regulations and tell them what they should and shouldn’t do but ultimately, they’re not there to control it, their every move.”
Defense lawyers contend that there was no probable cause to arrest and charge the suspect, arguing, among other things, that the suspects had no operational plan to do anything, were engaged in all legal activities — including talking in encrypted group chats and practicing military exercises with lawfully owned guns — and that it was the informants and undercover agents who “pushed” others to do illegal things.
Defense attorney Scott Graham was grilling FBI special agent Richard Trask about his testimony that at least 13 self-described militia members plotted to kidnap Whitmer from her vacation home and do one of two things: either take her on a boat in the middle of Lake Michigan and leave her there, or, take her to Wisconsin and try her for treason.
Graham asked agent Trask how the suspects planned to get Whitmer to Wisconsin.
The agent had no specific answer, beyond saying there were audio recordings of the suspects discussing a plan to take Whitmer to another state, among them Wisconsin.
Graham then asked the agent what the suspects planned to do with Whitmer after they left her in the lake. The agent had no specific answer, beyond testifying that the accused ringleader, Adam Fox, wanted to “take her out on a boat and leave her in the middle of Lake Michigan.”
FBI Director Chris Wray warns Congress about the dangers of “white supremacist groups.” And then two weeks later the FBI arrests a group of middle-class gun nuts and patriots and accuses them of plotting to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer. And now we find out days later that there is an alleged FBI informant who pushed the entire plot?
The FBI wants to stir up violence.
The Deep State lives in the FBI.
Is the ‘Fox’, the gangster from Delaware?
But the kidnapping was going to be mostly peaceful and just an act of civil disobedience.
Only about 50 FReepers immediately predicted this was an FBI suggested plot.
Wray deserves the Honorable Lavrenty Beria Commendation and the same fate, as depicted in “The Death Of Stalin.”
The Fey Wray turns out to be a Domestic Terriorist also guilty of heavy projection.
Posted it, got in FB jail for fake news. Just like hunters pictures
Defund the FBI.
I was one of those 50 the FBI needs to be fired top to bottom and restarted from the ground up!! FBI and CIA are the 2 most useless organizations on the planet!! 5 stinking planes HIJACKED right under their noses and flown into buildings simultaneously!! Then we have WACO, RUBY RIDGE and NOW a POTUS being impeached all the while the FBI had a laptop PROVING exactly why these bastards HAD TO get Trump to stop from finding out the corruption going on in Ukraine!! PLEASE excuse me if I don’t believe ONE DAMN thing the FBI is peddling the FBI could tell me the sky was blue and I would not believe them!!! This was a PLOT by the FBI to get the people of MI. and Virginia to feel sorry for these USELESS leaders and turn the states away from Trump!!
Nothing new about this. I grew up in the South years ago and even then the joke was that if you go to a KKK meeting with 10 people, half of them are FBI and the rest are low-IQ imbeciles.
Too bad the FBI can’t be so proactive with Antifa.
I have been a critic of the government having so many law enforcement agencies. We have the FBI, DEA, Border Patrol, DHS, and so on. It seems inefficient - too many agencies with overlapping duties. But now I am thinking that it might be a good idea to have many independent agencies that cannot all be easily and simultaneously corrupted.
So the dreaded Wbite Supremists that the Homeland Security called the number one DomestiTerrorist group turned out to be the FBI. Now the Coup attempt and imleachment hoax makes sense...
Lol
Exactly! This was Christopher Wray personally creating a crime to ‘prove’ his BS about White Supremacy being the biggest domestic terror threat in the country! All contrived fake crap.
Like the Nazis blaming the Communists for the Reichstag Fire.
“5 stinking planes HIJACKED right under their noses and flown into buildings simultaneously!!”
For crying out loud, you have no idea how wrong you are! Those planes were piloted by experienced Afghan Air Force pilots carrying Saddam’s invisible WMD’s. This is why Bush invaded Afghanistan and Iraq. /s/
Or the Nazis blaming the Poles for the attack on the Gleiwitz Radio Station.
Sounds familiar.
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