FBI Played Larger Role in Whitmer Kidnapping Case Than Previously Reported: FBI Informants Helped Hatch the Plot!

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REVEALED: FBI Played Larger Role in Whitmer Kidnapping Case Than Previously Reported: FBI Informants Helped Hatch the Plot!

By Cristina Laila
Published July 20, 2021 at 5:00pm

 

In October 2020, the FBI announced during a press conference that it thwarted a plot by a so-called “right-wing militia” to kidnap and kill Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer and overthrow the state government.

 

The Whitmer kidnapping plot was in the media 24/7 and used to bludgeon Trump with just a few weeks to go until Election Day.

 

 

The FBI used at least 12 informants in the Michigan Whitmer kidnapping case.

There are 6 defendants and 12 FBI informants.

 

But it’s much worse than previously reported.

 

According to a new report out by BuzzFeed News, the FBI was involved in every aspect of the Whitmer kidnapping case – starting with its inception!

 

FBI informants/agents actually helped hatch the kidnapping plot which means there would be no conspiracy case without the FBI.

 

One FBI informant organized all the meetings early on and paid for hotel rooms and food to entice the patsies.

 

Defense lawyers are arguing the informants drew people into the conspiracy and that there is potential evidence of entrapment.

BuzzFeed reported:

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.

 

 

A longtime government informant from Wisconsin, for example, helped organize a series of meetings around the country where many of the alleged plotters first met one another and the earliest notions of a plan took root, some of those people say.

 

The Wisconsin informant even paid for some hotel rooms and food as an incentive to get people to come.

 

Last week, the lawyer for one defendant filed a motion that included texts from an FBI agent to a key informant, the Iraq War veteran, directing him to draw specific people into the conspiracy — potential evidence of entrapment that he said the government “inadvertently disclosed.” He is requesting all texts sent and received by that informant, and other attorneys are now considering motions that accuse the government of intentionally withholding evidence of entrapment.

Two FBI agents/informants in the Whitmer case have been arrested – which of course only bolsters the defense.

[coorslite21]

Once again the DOJ illustrates incompetence or bias.....the two who plead guilty at the promise by the feds to lesser sentences must be feeling pretty stupid now.....

Government keeps hitting new lows!    CL

 

2 defendants acquitted in Michigan governor kidnapping case; mistrial declared for 2 others

By Brian Vitagliano, CNN

Updated 3:15 PM EDT, Fri April 08, 2022

 

(CNN)A federal jury on Friday found two men accused of plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer not guilty of kidnapping conspiracy and a mistrial was declared for two other defendants.

Adam Fox, Barry Croft, Daniel Harris and Brandon Caserta faced federal charges for allegedly conspiring to kidnap the Democratic governor.

 

Harris and Caserta were found not guilty of kidnapping conspiracy. The jury also found Harris not guilty on other charges. The jury could not reach a verdict for Fox and Croft, after which US District Judge Robert Jonker declared a mistrial for those defendants.

 

All four defendants, who pleaded not guilty, faced up to life in prison if convicted of kidnapping conspiracy.

FBI raids home over threats made to judge, attorneys and potential witness in Michigan Gov. Whitmer kidnap plot trial

 

The indictment alleged that in 2020, six men charged in the case conspired with others to "unlawfully seize, kidnap, abduct and carry away, and hold for ransom and reward" Whitmer.

Authorities have said the men were planning to kidnap the Democratic governor from a vacation home and blow up a bridge to delay law enforcement.

 

Two defendants previously pleaded guilty and testified in the trial against the four others.

 

Prosecutors had described the alleged plans in stark terms.

 

"They said they wanted to kidnap the governor. They trained to kidnap the governor. They cased her house in the middle of the night. They mapped it out. They planned it. They gathered weapons and bonds," prosecutor Nils Kessler said during closing arguments last week.

Kessler said the convicted co-conspirators, Ty Garbin and Kaleb Franks, who testified at trial, "testified to you that this plot was real."

 

Defense attorneys claimed federal law enforcement manufactured the alleged kidnapping conspiracy through confidential informants and undercover agents.

 

Fox, who was impoverished, unfocused and had little tactical abilities, never would've found his way to the alleged crimes without the coaxing of a paid confidential informant who propped up Fox as a leader of the plot, Fox's attorney told the jury.

 

Croft's attorney Joshua Blanchard also argued federal law enforcement agents fabricated the investigation to advance their own personal careers and challenged the jury to correct their error.

 

"This investigation was an embarrassment and we have to tell them this isn't how our country operates. This isn't how our justice system is supposed to work. We can't use people like Barry Croft, and Adam Fox, Daniel Harris and Brandon Caserta. We can't use them as pawns in order to advance our interests."

 

Blanchard acknowledged Croft said some offensive things on the secret recordings but chalked it up to "stoned crazy talk."

 

https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/08/politics/whitmer-trial/index.html

 

CNN's Lauren del Valle contributed to this report.

[nstoolman1]

Classic example of a weaponize DOJ. 

[SgtFuryUSCZ]

On 4/8/2022 at 5:17 PM, nstoolman1 said:

Classic example of a weaponize DOJ. 

 

Indeed. Sad, but true.

And now these 2 tools infiltrating the Secret Service...

Once the lefty kommies permeate our once proud LEO & DOJ Services it's like a cancer.

Time to eradicate the moles and vermin.