Posted on 10/17/2021 4:17:59 PM PDT by ransomnote
The tony, bucolic town of Dublin, Ohio would be one of the last places in America expected to host a convention of white supremacist militiamen. Nestled along the Scioto River, the Columbus suburb’s biggest claim to fame is hosting the PGA’s annual Memorial Golf tournament every summer.
But in June 2020, days after the nation was roiled by Black Lives Matter looting and rioting, a man from Wisconsin named Stephen Robeson sponsored a “National Militia Conference” at a Dublin hotel. (Yes, that was the real name of the event.)
According to BuzzFeed’s exceptional July 2021 investigative report on the FBI-led plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer in 2020, Robeson “helped organize the national meeting, and he was enthusiastically pushing people he knew to attend.”
The purpose of the conference was to recruit people who ultimately would stoke “political violence” against governors who refused to reopen their states after lockdowns supposedly necessitated by COVID.
Some participants said Robeson, known as “Robey,” relentlessly pestered them until they agreed to show up; people came from as far as Maryland and Kansas City, BuzzFeed’s Ken Bensinger and Jessica Garrison reported.
One member of the Three Percenters, an alleged militia group on the FBI’s naughty list, observed people taking photos from discreet locations in the hotel. “The feds are everywhere,” he thought to himself.
Indeed. One of the feds was Robeson himself.
In a motion filed in July by a defense lawyer in the Whitmer kidnapping prosecution, Robeson is described as having a long record “of cooperating with the government in exchange for personal benefits.
Basically, this [confidential human source] has a decades-long history of acting as a professional snitch for the government.”
Robeson also—and there’s nothing at all sketchy about this—founded the Wisconsin Patriot Three Percenters, BuzzFeed reported. Three Percenters, along with the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, are considered right-wing extremist militias by the FBI.
Dozens of members from the three groups have been arrested and charged in connection with the January 6 protest at the Capitol.
But there’s more to Robeson’s background than just acting as government-paid flypaper to lure right-wingers to join a so-called “militia” group; he’s compiled a rap sheet a mile long including sex with a minor, battery, car theft, insurance fraud, and forgery.
And in 2020, this convicted felon was working for Christopher Wray’s FBI to entrap alleged “militia men,” presumably loyal to Donald Trump, to pull a stunt before the 2020 election.
Which is exactly what happened. In yet another example of the FBI interfering in a presidential election, Robeson and at least a dozen other FBI agents and informants orchestrated the shocking scheme—the feds paid for and organized “surveillance” trips as well as weapons training camps, all for the hidden cameras to capture on film—to produce major headlines as early voting was underway in the crucial swing state of Michigan.
Whitmer held a dramatic press conference the day the Justice Department announced the arrest of six men on federal conspiracy charges, blaming Trump for encouraging “domestic terrorists.”
Joe Biden weighed in, too. “There is a through line from President Trump’s dog whistles and tolerance of hate, vengeance, and lawlessness to plots such as this one. He is giving oxygen to the bigotry and hate we see on the march in our country,” he said on October 8, 2020.
Turns out, the “oxygen” that gave the plot life came from inside the house. BuzzFeed, after reviewing numerous court records and conducting interviews with those involved, concluded the FBI assets “had a hand in nearly every aspect of the alleged plot, starting with its inception.”
Without the FBIs involvement, it’s unclear “whether there would have even been a conspiracy without them.”
For now, the federal trial has been delayed until next spring after defense counsel asked for a 90-day continuance to investigate misconduct by FBI agents and informants.
It also appears that the Whitmer operation was only part of the FBI’s overall plan to infiltrate and perhaps direct the conduct of unsuspecting “militia” men in 2020.
Operation Cold Snap, according to BuzzFeed, was an undercover “far-reaching, multi-state domestic terrorism investigation” to surveil—or more likely entrap, as defense lawyers in the Whitmer case now argue—people tied to the FBI’s hit list of right-wing militias.
The Justice Department vaguely referred to the operation in its press release announcing the arrests in the Whitmer case. “[The] FBI began an investigation earlier this year after becoming aware through social media that a group of individuals was discussing the violent overthrow of certain government and law enforcement components.”
Testimony by one of the lead FBI special agents in the Whitmer case verified the multi-state probe. Henrik Impola, who worked with the FBI’s biggest informant in the case, an Iraq War vet known as “Big Dan,” told a judge he was handling “Big Dan” and acting as a case agent in Operation Cold Snap at the same time.
“From the FBI through the domestic terrorism operation center, I was aware of other FBI investigations in Baltimore and Milwaukee and Cincinnati and Indiana involving other militia members . . . who were attending the national conference in Dublin,” Impola testified in March.
“Big Dan,” who was paid at least $54,000 by the FBI for seven months’ work on the Whitmer caper, and a separate FBI special agent had another target: Virginia. FBI Special Agent Jayson Chambers in September urged “Big Dan” to convince a man in Virginia to participate in a sinister plan against Virginia Governor Ralph Northam.
“The mission is to kill the governor specifically,” the text between handler and informant read. And just like in the Whitmer plot, “Big Dan” advised his target how to build an explosive device and urged him to attend a training camp in Wisconsin.
“Like all the others, [the Wisconsin event] was conceived, planned, and conducted by the federal investigative team of agents and undercover informants working together to provide a stage upon which to manipulate their targets into acting out ostensibly incriminating behavior the government hoped to elicit in its bid to develop then “interrupt” the operation of a “domestic terrorist organization.”
Sound familiar?
And there is another glaring connection between January 6 and the Whitmer case that cannot be dismissed as coincidence.
One week after the charges were announced in the kidnapping plot, the man in charge of the Detroit FBI Field office was promoted to head of the D.C. FBI Field office. Steven M. D’Antuono took over the D.C. shop, described as “a coveted post in the bureau,” on October 13, 2020.
Was D’Antuono promoted for a job well done or to continue the undercover operation, blaming any post-election chaos on right-wing militia groups as they did with the Whitmer plot?
Several unanswered questions about the FBI’s possible involvement remain, as Darren Beattie has detailed at Revolver News. One mystery is the whereabouts of FBI Director Chris Wray before and during the protest. Kash Patel, who held several high-level posts in the waning months of Trump’s presidency, was in communication with top administration officials on January 5 and 6.
“I was on the phone on January fourth, fifth, and sixth with the president, with the chief of staff, with the Attorney General, with the Department of Homeland Security, and the only person missing from those phone calls was the Director of the FBI.” Patel said in a recent interview. “He was nowhere to be found.”
Further, the New York Times bombshell last month confirmed that at least one informant inside the Proud Boys started working with the agency in July 2020 and “appears to have been close to several other members of his Proud Boys chapter, including some who have been charged in the attack.”
The Times report can only be seen as the start of a slow drip of information about the extent of the FBI’s role in January 6.For now, it’s hard to imagine Operation Cold Snap ended with the arrest of Whitmer’s would-be abductors. A more likely scenario is that Wray moved D’Antuono from Michigan to the nation’s capital just in time for what everyone knew would be a highly fraught period after Election Day. It’s only a matter of time before we learn how many “Big Dans” or Stephen Robesons were part of January 6.
Every time the leaders from the Democratic Party opens their mouths, lies gush out.
My head is spinning. I will have to read this many times.
Wow.
Time to check Nancy’s phones & electronics, etc.
President Trump offered the National Guard for Jan 6, she said, “NO.”
Every publicly released video points the “siege” being staged. Those who disagree haven’t watched the videos, or are committed to the narrative.
Spinning in confusion or disbelief?
I never thought US and law enforcement would induce nausea and vomiting at their exploits. The FBI, many Congressman, the entire Education system and CIA are clearly un American at their core.
President Trump offered the National Guard for Jan 6, she said, “NO.”
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Whistleblower @JohnHereToHelp had an extensive account of Nancy and Pence's invovlment that day. They were in phone contact, with Nancy and her personal 'security detail' orchestrating it. I linked a copy of Whistleblower @JohnHereToHelp’s posts describing their coordination of Pelosi’s private security force made of corrupt gov agencies to create the fake Jan 6 ‘insurrection.’
“Spinning in confusion or disbelief?”
Both! The enormity of the ‘scam’ and the fact that we ordinary citizens were subject to the scam and willingly (many of us) to be duped.
I still can’t fathom how we allowed this to happen. Obviously, I think as a collected group, we folks are smart.
It was a Deep State operation, of that I have no doubt.
I had a conversation with an agent last week, I won’t go into detail or give a location except to say he was on vacation. He thinks 80 - 90% in line agents are good solid honest people but referred to the top two levels as “corrupt scum” who need to be locked up for a long time.
“Spinning in confusion or disbelief?”
There’s a former federal prosecutor who writes under the pseudonym ShipWreckedCrew who doesn’t think that the FBI Sting theory of Jan 6th has any merit.
He’s no fan of the FBI; he thinks they and the DOJ have been corrupted; but he knows enough about federal informants and prosecution to see big holes in the argument. You’ll have to go through his twitter timeline to find the relevant posts if you’re interested. I’ll post the link:
https://twitter.com/shipwreckedcrew
Of course the is was an FBI operation done deliberately, Nancy not giving proper security, THEN knowing how many rallies Trump has had with 30-40 THOUSAND people attending each one AND not one ounce of trouble EVER this WAS A SET UP, BANK ON IT, the FBI is pure SCUM top to bottom they couldn’t find their asses from a hole in the ground and they HAVE MISSED EVERY damned terrorist action in our country even though EVERY damn one of them HAD BEEN on their radar but they decided there was NOTHING THERE!! FBI needs to be disband from the bottom up and started completely over the ENTIRE department is corrupt!!!
Appreciated!
The insurrection was a “made for TV” event.
Julie Kelly seems to have a problem with shipwreckedcrew and I trust her a hell of a lot more than him.
FBI is horse shit dirty from top to bottom.
Whatever happened to #16? Remember the guy? He was out the night before telling people “we have to take the capitol” and trump supporters were calling him a Fed. It is on video. He was also the one directing the young man when to take the South Gate down before the March to the capitol. That was the same young man who went to aide a guard who fell down and was hurt in that incident. Oddly #16 is now removed from the most wanted photo list. Who knows.
There is a reason they can’t seem to identify or locate those that placed the two pipe B#mbs.
They don’t want too.
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