New evidence suggests that the FBI purposefully tolerated and encouraged political violence ahead of the 2020 presidential election so as to target perceived domestic extremists for arrest.
The evidence includes “[t]housands of pages of internal FBI reports and hundreds of hours of undercover recordings” that were obtained by The Intercept, a “progressive” news source.
“The secret files offer an extraordinary view inside a high-profile domestic terrorism investigation, revealing in stark relief how federal agents have turned the war on terror inward, using informant-led stings to chase after potential domestic extremists,” The Intercept reported last Wednesday.
“The files also suggest that federal agents have become reckless, turning a blind eye to public safety risks that, if addressed, could disrupt the government’s cases,” the report continued.
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.https://t.co/W8N2AfPRdN
— The Intercept (@theintercept) March 7, 2024
The files mainly concern the notorious 2020 conspiracy to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a rabid Democrat. As previously reported, a large group of undercover FBI agents and informants tricked a few Michigan men into taking part in the plot.
During the Whitmer plot, FBI agents “at times put Americans in danger” just to keep the plot alive and well.
“In one instance, the FBI knew that Wolverine Watchmen militia members would enter the Michigan Capitol with firearms — and agents suspected that one man might even have had a live grenade — but did not stop them,” according to The Intercept.
“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 Intercept noted.
Moreover, the Whitmer plot oftentimes intersected with other FBI-concocted plots — such as one to fly a drone with explosives into then-Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s North Carolina vacation home.
According to Navy veteran Frank Butler, the drone plot was laid out to him by Stephen Robeson and Dan Chappel, two FBI informants.
They “were literally brainwashing me” and “weaponizing me,” Butler later told investigators about Robeson and Chappel’s influence.
9) In an extension of the Whitmer case, FBI informants Stephen Robeson and Dan Chappel tried to lure a Navy veteran named Frank Butler into a fantastical plot to fly an explosives-laden drone into Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s vacation home.
— Trevor Aaronson (@trevoraaronson) March 9, 2024
While the plot thankfully never went anywhere, prosecutors later reportedly acknowledged that Robeson had offered to provide money to Butler to “purchase weapons for attacks” and for “the use of a drone, to aid in acts of domestic terrorism.”
All this just to try to arrest Butler.
There was also an FBI-concocted plot to kill Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser involving an undercover FBI agent named Timothy Bates.
“In Colorado, an FBI informant named Mickey Windecker introduced Bates to a racial justice activist who expressed interest in assassinating the state’s attorney general,” The Intercept noted.
Bates responded by suggesting he could hire a hitman for $500 to kill Weiser for the unnamed racial justice activist.
Combined, these three instances of the FBI pushing violence in Michigan, Virginia, and Colorado “raise questions about whether the FBI pursued a larger, secret effort to encourage political violence in the run-up to the 2020 election,” according to The Intercept.
Responding to this story, critics expressed about every single emotion except for shock.
Look:
In other breaking news: Water is wet!
— Get Smart (@Greg39440577203) March 7, 2024
It’s almost like 80 million Americans have been saying this all along.
— Dtown (@zMarcusAurelius) March 7, 2024
The number of times they get away with this outnumbers the times they are caught. There are never consequences.
— The State Versus The People (@woodifitweretru) March 8, 2024
lmao, I don’t need some random rag to tell me what I’ve observed first hand for years. Glowies go around places like 4chan and Reddit and try to encourage people to commit acts of terrorism.
— Nathaniel Kristos (@NathanielKristo) March 7, 2024
Can’t wait until DJT comes back and shuts down the corrupt FBI! And the DOE (energy and education) the ATF, DHS, HUD, IRS, and all the other alphabet agencies who get in the way of American ingenuity. Oh, and seals the border!
— Padraig Gruffydd (@GruffyddPadraig) March 8, 2024
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V. Saxena is a staff writer with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University. Saxena also contributes to BizPac Review.
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