More Trouble for the FBI in the Whitmer Kidnapping Case By Julie Kelly

[mystery-ak]

More Trouble for the FBI in the Whitmer Kidnapping Case
In a stunning move, defense lawyers now want prosecutors to offer immunity not to their clients but to FBI agents and informants.
By Julie Kelly
January 17, 2022

The media went wild last week after Joe Biden’s Justice Department finally produced a criminal indictment to support the claim that January 6 was an “insurrection” planned by militiamen loyal to Donald Trump: Eleven members of the Oath Keepers, including its founder, Stewart Rhodes, face the rarely used charge of seditious conspiracy for their brief and nonviolent involvement at the Capitol protest that day.

Journalists luxuriated in the news, jeering those of us who had correctly noted that the Justice Department had failed to charge anyone with insurrection or sedition for more than a year.

But the press does not share the same zeal in covering another politically charged investigation: the imploding criminal case against five men accused of plotting to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer in 2020. The kidnapping narrative shares many similarities with their preferred telling of January 6, not the least of which is that alleged militias incited by Trump attempted to carry out a domestic terror attack.

Despite wall-to-wall coverage after the charges in the Michigan case were announced right before Election Day, the corporate media has almost completely memory-holed the abduction caper. Stewart Rhodes is a household name; Stephen Robeson, a convicted felon and the chief FBI informant in the Whitmer case accused of all sorts of malfeasance, is not.

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https://amgreatness.com/2022/01/17/more-trouble-for-the-fbi-in-the-whitmer-kidnapping-case/

[Kamaji]

The Gretchen Whitmer Kidnapping Plot Looks an Awful Lot Like Entrapment

This is a much more persuasive example of Deep State nefariousness than January 6.

Robby Soave
January 26, 2022

The militia members who allegedly plotted to kidnap Michigan's Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer because of her COVID-19 lockdown policies will go to trial in just a few weeks. Six were charged in connection with the plot, and one of them has already pleaded guilty and is expected to testify against the rest. State authorities charged eight others with aiding a terrorist plot.

But the government's case against these 14 alleged extremists relies on work done by at least a dozen government informants and undercover FBI agents whose extensive involvement in the plot calls into question whether it would have moved forward at all without the government's prodding. Some of these government actors took lead roles in organizing the supposed plot—one of the informants was even paid $54,000 by the FBI.

Taken together, these and other details raise the strong possibility that the militia members were victims of entrapment on the part of the FBI.

Indeed, the revelations have prompted considerable, welcome scrutiny of the case from the mainstream media. "The FBI Investigation Into The Alleged Plot To Kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer Has Gotten Very Complicated," conceded BuzzFeed News in an in-depth examination of the available evidence published last month. And earlier this week, The New York Times acknowledged that the involvement of informants and agents had "muddled" the case:

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Source:  https://reason.com/2022/01/26/gretchen-whitmer-kidnapping-plot-entrapment-fbi-trial/

[mountaineer]

Julie Kelly 🇺🇸
@julie_kelly2
After 18 months with the judge ruling in their favor on nearly every issue, the DOJ did not get a SINGLE CONVICTION in the alleged plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer
2:38 PM · Apr 8, 2022·


Julie Kelly 🇺🇸
@julie_kelly2
BREAKING: Verdicts in Whitmer "kidnapping" trial:
ADAM FOX--the alleged ringleader
NO VERDICT on conspiracy to kidnap
BARRY CROFT:
NO VERDICT
DANIEL HARRIS ON KIDNAPPING NOT GUILTY
2:12 PM · Apr 8, 2022·

[catfish1957]

This and J6 with potential baiting and politcal motivated entrapment activites by the FBI?

Once is out-lier.  Twice is not a likely coincidence.

[mountaineer]

This and J6 with potential baiting and politcal motivated entrapment activites by the FBI?

The FBI no longer is a legitimate law enforcement agency.

Right in Virginia has posted a thread about the verdict: https://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,466501.0/topicseen.html

[Smokin Joe]

This and J6 with potential baiting and politcal motivated entrapment activites by the FBI?

Once is out-lier.  Twice is not a likely coincidence.

Twice? The Feds have been doing this stuff since well before Randy Weaver.