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philip964 wrote: Wed Jul 21, 2021 12:11 pm https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ke ... -informant

Apparently the men arrested for plotting to kidnap the Governor of Michigan say they were entrapped by the FBI.

More idiots.

the man who’d advised them on where to put the explosives — and offered to get them as much as the task would require — was an undercover FBI agent

The government has documented at least 12 confidential informants who assisted the sprawling {kidnapping} investigation. {lead by the FBI accused wife beater}

The Annoyed Man wrote: Wed Jul 21, 2021 3:03 pm This is easy. Report everyone in AntiFa to the Security Branch of the DNC (AKA “FBI”). That should keep them busy for a while.

An FBI agent at the center of the investigation into the plot to kidnap and kill Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is accused of smashing his wife's head against a nightstand and choking her after a dispute stemming from their attendance at a swingers' party, according to court records....

Once they arrived home, Trask got on top of her in their bed and "then grabbed the side of her head and smashed it several times on the nightstand," according to the affidavit.

She attempted to grab his beard to free herself, and he began to choke her around the neck and throat with both hands, according to the affidavit. She ultimately grabbed Trask's testicles, which ended the altercation, the document notes, and Trask left the Oshtemo Township home in her vehicle.

the FBI informant ultimately rose to second in command of the conspiracy....Trask’s affidavit was used to arrest the men in the Michigan case. He and other agents are accused to prodding the alleged conspirators and ultimately organizing the effort.

Police describe {Trask's wife} as covered in blood and bruises.

As the author of the key affidavit, Trask could do considerable harm to the federal case. Even without such testimony in favor of the defense, his current status as an accused felon will likely be raised with the court. A judge could conclude that the two cases are unrelated and disclosure to a jury would be prejudicial and immaterial. However, the defense could argue that the pending charges could influence his testimony. He could seek to satisfy his former federal colleagues in the kidnapping case to improve his position in seeking a plea bargain with their state counterpart. Such testimony could also be cited to mitigate any sentence or charged the assault case.

Any entrapment defense carries a very heavy burden that defendants can rarely shoulder successfully in federal cases. The advantage remains with the government in this case. However, this case has a credible claim of entrapment and one of the core witnesses for the government has suddenly become a liability.

The FBI didn’t let the crisis of 9/11 go to waste—they seized on it to dramatically increase their funding and power. They suddenly took the “lead” on terrorism all over the United States. Before 9/11, they had treated terrorism as an ugly footnote. The people on the USS Cole bombing case remember working out of basement offices, part-time, as al-Qaeda grew more powerful, better funded, and trained hundreds of people in Afghanistan.

Once the FBI was in charge, there were lots of new GS-15 positions, offices to fill, and money to spend—and boy, did they. In 2001, the FBI wanted $1.5 billion for counterterrorism and only got $500 million. In 2002, they asked for $200 million more. In 2003, they asked for $285 more. And so on. The total FBI budget was about $3.5 billion in 2002. It’s more than $10 billion today.

Now, 20 years later, with Osama bin Laden dead and the United States leaving Afghanistan, do we think those GS-15 positions, or those Joint Terrorism Task Forces, or the Foreign Terrorist Tracking Task Force, are going to go away? No. They need work to justify those budgets, and America needs a new enemy.

The difference is that the government has begun to use the tools that were developed to fight a credible foreign threat now to fight against the political opponents of Democrats.

one merely needs to consider recent FBI behavior. In just the past six years we've seen:

Hillary Clinton given a pass for felony transmission of classified information
A FISA court deceived, including falsification of evidence, to surveil a private citizen
A perjury trap set for President Trump's national security adviser
Decline to investigate the obvious perjury of James Comey, John Brennan, and James Clapper in their congressional testimony
Evidence of Hunter and Joe Biden's influence-peddling suppressed
January 6 Capitol trespassers (a misdemeanor) charged with criminal conspiracy (a felony)

To assess how rooted the corruption is, it's helpful to look at the last twenty years of FBI leadership.

2001–2013: Robert Mueller was involved in the Whitey Bulger scandal. Since leaving the FBI, he led an attempt to unseat an elected president. Within months after initiating his investigation of President Trump, Mueller learned that the evidence was merely a political opposition hit piece, yet he continued the investigation for two and a half years through the midterm election. How's that for integrity?
2013–2017: James Comey turned the PATRIOT Act against U.S. citizens for political purposes and leaked fraudulent information about the President to the press. He also leaked classified information to an un-cleared friend in academia in a successful attempt to trigger the appointment of a special prosecutor (the ethically challenged Robert Mueller).
2017–current: Christopher Wray was at the helm while the FBI was doing a hit job on Brett Kavanaugh, creating the Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping plot, and suppressing political speech. Director Wray has recently designated right-wing extremists (AKA Trump-supporters) the greatest threat America faces.

It was a plot designed by the agency, and they then went on the hunt to target people they believed they could manipulate into joining their plot

In the past few days alone, we have learned that the October 2020 Michigan governor kidnap plot was largely a creation of the FBI; a "senior FBI official" was on the take from media organizations; and another assistant director was in a "romantic relationship with a subordinate" and involved in "other misconduct."

The leadership failures documented by the Office of the Inspector General are now almost standard and part of a tiresome media drip-torture for the public to endure.

Meanwhile, the FBI had the audacity to issue a Stasi-like tweet urging "monitoring of 'family members and peers' for extremism."

srothstein wrote: Sat Jul 17, 2021 10:27 pm I have searched carefully for extremism in my household. I did not find any signs of anyone even thinking about supporting Antifa or BLM.

Prior to 2018, special interest groups demanding the dismantling of the rapidly growing nationalist movement in the name of stopping “white supremacist domestic terrorism” struggled to name a group that could justify a crackdown.

In response to this, the FBI, in conjunction with intelligence services around the world, invented one.

...Sutter has been employed by the FBI since 2003. Starting in February 2018, he was paid over $82,000 to take over Atomwaffen and transform it from a mostly online based art group into a household name for “white supremacist” terrorism and moral depravity.