Posted on 04/13/2022 4:08:43 AM PDT by Kaslin
"Through confidential sources, undercover agents, and clandestine recordings," the Justice Department announced in October 2020, "law enforcement learned particular individuals were planning to kidnap" Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and "acting in furtherance of that plan." But it turned out those individuals included the government's "confidential sources," who pushed the half-baked scheme and orchestrated acts "in furtherance of that plan" even when the defendants resisted it.
The appearance of entrapment, coupled with the difficulty of distinguishing between fantasy and criminal conspiracy, explains the embarrassing outcome of a federal trial that ended last week, when jurors acquitted two alleged conspirators and failed to reach verdicts for the other two. It was a well-deserved rebuke of investigative methods that crossed the line between prevention and invention.
Two of the six original defendants, Ty Garbin and Kaleb Franks, pleaded guilty and testified for the prosecution, saying they willingly participated in the kidnapping plot. But the record compiled by the government shows FBI agents and their informants were determined to advance a narrative that would justify their efforts.
The jurors clearly were troubled by that evidence. They acquitted two of the remaining defendants, Daniel Harris and Brandon Caserta, of conspiring to kidnap Whitmer, and could not agree on the charges against the other two, Adam Fox and Barry Croft.
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The “FBI” have become the crooks in America....so shameful!!
It’s like the fireman arsonist who lights fires on the way to work then puts them out after clocking in.
Job security until caught.
An October surprise for Michigan...and the nation.
The Big Takeaway- don’t let them try you in DC.
Americans need to ask the old, retired FBI agents (the ones interested in catching criminals not going after innocent Americans) to come back and help us find and remove Obammie’s Gestapo boys. The FBI needs a good defunding and fumigation.
“Two of the six original defendants, Ty Garbin and Kaleb Franks, pleaded guilty and testified for the prosecution”
I wonder how those two tools feel now that two were acquitted outright and two others have hung juries...
It doesn’t matter because the FBI’s primary goal was fulfilled.
The idea of an active Right-wing terrorist militia is reenforced in the uninformed public’s mind.
Also the idea that the Right-wing is attacking Democrat Government is established.
The propaganda value of this case is not deminished because it will not be discussed in the MSM.
I would trust a guy selling Rolex watches on the street corner before I would anyone from the FIB.
Maybe they are FBI’S finest and did no jail time.
Possibly, though there is a problem with the plea bargain arrangements (and this is often brought up by blactivists). Dindu Nuffins who really “didn’t do nothing” can be coerced into pleading guilty when they are convinced enough weak evidence may convict them anyway (they fear leaving it to chance).
This is the FBI attempting to kidnap Governor Whitmer.
I'm not sure who you are talking about here. They'd have to be really old, since the FBI has been a criminal organization since 1992 (Ruby Ridge)
They are WHITE, not black.
What did Whitler know about the FIB scam? Impeachment time.
I know they are white; I was pointing out that years ago blacks were criticizing a system where too many accused people were coerced into plea bargaining because they were convinced they’d be wrongfully convicted and risk much harsher sentences.
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