http://twitchy.com/amy-curtis/2024/03/08/the-intercept-fbi-secret-files-2020-violence-n2393718
The FBI hasn't exactly covered itself in glory these past several years. From stealing from homes while executing search warrants, to bad choices in pics representing 'organized crime', to stepping on rakes when honoring MLK, they've tarnished their reputation beyond repair.
The Intercept (@theintercept) ~ A trove of secret FBI files obtained exclusively by @theintercept raise questions about whether federal agents pursued a larger, secret effort to encourage political violence in the run-up to the 2020 election.
http://theintercept.com/2024/03/06/gretchen-whitmer-kidnapping-informant/
More from The Intercept:
The FBI documents and recordings reveal that federal agents at times put Americans in danger as the Whitmer plot metastasized. In one instance, the FBI knew that Wolverine Watchmen militia members would enter the Michigan Capitol with firearms — and agents suspected that [i]one man might even have had a live grenade[/u] — but did not stop them. (The grenade turned out to be nonfunctional.) Another time, federal agents intervened when local police officers in Michigan were about to confiscate firearms from two of the FBI’s targets, who were on a terrorist watchlist. Local law enforcement had received reports from concerned citizens who saw the men loading their guns before entering a hardware store.
The files also raise questions about whether the FBI pursued a larger, secret effort to encourage political violence in the run-up to the 2020 election. At least one undercover FBI agent and two informants in the Michigan case were also involved in stings centering on plots to assassinate the governor of Virginia and the attorney general of Colorado.
Read the entire thing.
AnnaZ (@AnnaZ) ~ This is my shocked face.
Ours too.
@WolframCochrane (@WolframCochrane) ~ Say it isn’t so!
Right? It's so hard to believe.
Not.
It's totally believable.
Corporal Punishment (@CplPunishment_) ~
Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) ~ To repeat, this is where we're at -- an avowedly leftist publication is saying there are serious "questions about whether the FBI pursued a larger effort to encourage political violence ahead of the 2020 election."
Montana Department of Organic Flammability (@MontanaDOOF) ~
Not shocked at all.
Jim Hanson (@JimHansonDC) ~ Seems all the insurrections are invented by the FBI. Why?
Because the Justice Department is a willing co-conspirator with Biden's banana republic. The FBI is becoming more and more like the Stasi.
Patrick Henry,The2nd (@patrickhenry2nd) ~ The FBI is the enemy of the people.
Sure seems that way.
Keith Maniac, from Guatemala (@from_maniac) ~ This summer is going to be a hoot.
Yep, it could be a barn-burner.
A real laugh riot, if you catch our drift.
That being said, riots would make Biden look bad unless he cracked down on them (and given how things went at yesterday's SOTU address, we doubt that'll happen).
So maybe our cities won't burn this summer.
Aetius (@Aetius__) ~ It's hilarious watching the Intercept do mental gymnastics as they simultaneously lay out the incredibly corrupt FBI attempts to encourage political violence in the Whitmer kidnapping AND treat the FBI involvement in January 6th as a conspiracy theory.
These two positions are diametrically opposed to one another.
But we won't hold our breath for any reforms or consequences from this. That doesn't happen anymore.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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