Submitted by: P McMillan and Terry Payne
Bizarre arrest of FBI agent spotlights accusations of bureau
corruption
URL:
https://nypost.com/2021/07/24/
ions-of-bureau-corruption/
I would not trust the FBI to investigate a charge of a kid going hooky from
high school. Under Chris Wray, they are completely weaponized and
compromised. They don't touch "connected" politicians like Joe Biden, Hunter
Biden, James Biden etc. All are in violation of 1938 Foreign Agents
Registration Act (FARA) and Hunter's laptop has proof that Joe was using
Hunter as a business partner with China while Biden was VP. These critters
are public-unionized thugs with badges and the stench is not just at top
levels. The whole DOJ and FBI are used as Stasis/KGB/Cheka/GRU/NKVD agents
against the Americans who oppose Biden's commie administration.
"The FBI knew these people had some beliefs and were egging them on and
providing help and ammunition," Johnson said. "They encouraged, helped
instigate and escalated the criminal conduct of those individuals. At the
end of the day, there were almost as many FBI agents leading the group as
the other people in the group."-Kareem Johnson attorney for Pete Musico, one
of the 14 arrested.
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New York Post.Com
Bizarre arrest of FBI agent spotlights accusations of bureau corruption
By Dana Kennedy <https://nypost.com/author/dan
July 24, 2021 R OF "SECURING DEMOCRACY
Angry, and armed, the militiamen in Michigan were gearing up, getting ready
to unleash their fury over an unjust government and zeroing in on a target
who they believed upended their lives with pandemic restrictions: Gov.
Gretchen Whitmer
<https://nypost.com/2021/07/21
bi-set-them-up/> .
They trained with live assault weapons
<https://abc7chicago.com/michi
militia/10904641/> ; skulked around Whitmer's summer mansion in the dark as
they allegedly plotted a wild scheme to kidnap her, even relying on an Iraq
war veteran among them for his tactical experience.
The June 2020 plot by the Wolverine Watchmen - which authorities claim
included the possible use of a stun gun on Whitmer and talk of blowing up a
bridge to prevent cops from giving chase - never came to pass, broken up by
the Federal Bureau of Investigation in a celebrated bust in which 14 people
have been arrested so far.
But as it was revealed that the FBI had at least a dozen informants heavily
involved in the Watchmen
<https://www.buzzfeednews.com/
hen-whitmer-fbi-informant> - including that Iraq veteran - critics say the
G-Men did as much to prod the plot as they did to prevent it from happening
in the first place. Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer was the target of a
militia group's kidnapping plot last year.
The agents took an active part in the scheme from its inception, according
to court filings, evidence and dozens of interviews examined by BuzzFeed.
Some members of the Wolverine Watchmen are accusing the feds of entrapment
<https://nypost.com/2021/07/21
bi-set-them-up/> .
One FBI informant from Wisconsin allegedly helped organize meetings where
the first inklings of the Whitmer plot surfaced, even paying for hotel rooms
and food to entice people to attend, BuzzFeed reported. The Iraq veteran,
identified as "Dan" by BuzzFeed, allegedly shelled out for transportation
costs to militia meetings and apparently goaded members to advance the plot.
Members of the militia group accused of plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov.
Gretchen Whitmer claim they were set up by the FBI.
Kareem Johnson, a black, left-wing attorney representing Pete Musico, one of
the 14 arrested, told The Post the FBI played an outsize - and, at the very
least, inappropriate - part in the incident. Before the bureau was involved,
Johnson and other attorneys said, the Watchmen weren't even considered a
violent threat.
"The FBI knew these people had some beliefs and were egging them on and
providing help and ammunition," Johnson said. "They encouraged, helped
instigate and escalated the criminal conduct of those individuals. At the
end of the day, there were almost as many FBI agents leading the group as
the other people in the group."
FBI agents took an active part in the scheme to kidnap Michigan Gov.
Gretchen Whitmer from its inception, according to court filings.
It's not the first time the FBI's use of informants has come under fire.
Since the 9/11 attacks, the FBI has reportedly recruited thousands of
informants. Some, according to a recent investigation in The New York Times
<https://www.nytimes.com/2021/
ormants.html> that centered on the dubious arrest and conviction of the
so-called "Herald Square Bomber" by the use of an informant, said they were
retaliated against if they refused.
Shahawar Matin Siraj, was sentenced to 30 years in prison for trying to blow
up Herald Square during a 2004 plot. The lonely 21-year-old, who had just
moved to New York from Pakistan, ultimately decided he couldn't go forward
with the plan, and apparently backed out of the scheme despite pressure from
a pal, Osama Eldawoody, who turned out to be an FBI informant. Siraj was
arrested anyway.
Notorious Boston mobster Whitey Bulger always denied it, but the FBI
admitted he'd been an informant for several years, beginning in 1975. While
dishing out intel about various Boston and Providence, Rhode Island, crime
families, Bulger was moved with impunity and without fear of prosecution
when running his Winter Hill Gang out of Southie.
The FBI's use of informants has come under fire in the past.
And questions still linger about the FBI's relationship with Tamerlan
Tsarnaev and his brother, Dzhokhar, who carried out the deadly bombings at
the Boston Marathon in 2013. The Tsarnaevs, however, didn't make the bombs,
and cops in Boston told Newsweek in 2018
<https://www.newsweek.com/2018
.html> they believe the FBI is protecting whoever did.
"It appears to me that there are allegations, with evidentiary support, that
the FBI may have or currently is infiltrating, inciting or spawning alleged
fringe group operations in this country," attorney Darren Richie told The
Post. "The citizens of this country deserve to know if any of the stories
permeating this subject are valid."
Richie represents ex-DEA special agent Mark Sami Ibrahim, who was arrested
Tuesday
<https://nypost.com/2021/07/20
ds-with-official-firearm/> for allegedly trespassing at the Capitol with a
gun during the Jan. 6 riot. Ibrahim allegedly claimed to investigators he
was at the Capitol to help a friend who was documenting the event for the
FBI.
At least one veteran FBI agent dismissed allegations of "entrapment" against
the agency in the Michigan case.
Danny Coulson, a former deputy assistant director of the FBI who led the
1995 search for and arrest of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, told The
Post cries of entrapment have long been used by perps and he doesn't believe
the FBI acted improperly in Michigan.
But he said that he and other FBI agents, both past and present, have "very
grave concerns" about today's bureau.
Coulson said he was shocked at the FBI's tweet
<https://nypost.com/2021/07/13
ers-for-extremism/> last week urging citizens to monitor "family members and
peers" for signs of extremism. "The bureau's job is to collect evidence, not
to develop informants," Coulson said. "That was inappropriate."
Coulson said he and others are "very upset" the FBI hasn't arrested
anti-government and anti-fascist protesters who have been leading violent
demonstrations in Portland and Seattle
<https://www.reuters.com/artic
ti-fascist-protesters-vandaliz
0H9> for more than a year - yet are bearing down so hard on those arrested
for the insurrection at the Capitol.
Coulson used to run the Portland, Ore. FBI office and said the FBI has the
jurisdiction under racketeering statutes to go after the activists who set
fire and vandalized federal office buildings and threatened police.
"I am not demeaning what happened that day," Coulson said of Jan. 6. "But
I'm asking why [those] people are being punished at this level and others
aren't. In Portland and Seattle you clearly have federal laws being violated
in plain sight and nothing done."
Asked for comment, the FBI's Portland office referred The Post to the
bureau's Washington, DC office, who pointed to FBI Director Chris Wray's
overall statement on FBI Oversight at the House Judiciary Committee last
month.
"We do not investigate groups or individuals based on the exercise of First
Amendment protected activity alone. But, when we encounter violence and
threats to public safety, the FBI will not hesitate to take appropriate
action," Wray said at the time.
Renewed criticism of the FBI's use of informants comes amid a set of
embarrassing episodes for the G-men, starting last week with the arrest of
Richard Trask
<https://www.detroitnews.com/s
s-fbi-agent-assaulted-wife-swi
14002/> , the lead agent in the attempted kidnapping case involving Whitmer.
Trask, 39, allegedly slammed his wife's head into a nightstand and choked
her with both hands after the pair had attended a swinger's party, according
to a report. The wife, who was covered in blood and had "severe" bruises
around her neck, according to court documents, managed to stop the attack by
grabbing his crotch, authorities said in court documents.
Last week, Special Agent Karen Veltri in Las Vegas claimed she was sexually
harassed by a supervisor, who texted her a photo of a rainbow-colored dildo
near his crotch, and spoke to her about his "ground balls," the woman
claimed in a lawsuit
<https://nypost.com/2021/07/07
booze-and-rainbow-hued-sex-toy
And in the latest black eye for the agency
<https://nypost.com/2021/07/24
eport-romantic-relationship-wi
accused of having a fling with an underling, then participating in a
personnel decision involving her lover. The Thursday report from the U.S.
Department of Justice's inspector general accused Jill Tyson, the assistant
director of the bureau's Office of Congressional Affairs, of misconduct and
failing to disclose the relationship.
<https://nypost.com/2021/07/21
bi-set-them-up/>
Men accused in plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Whitmer claim FBI set them up.
The missteps and criticisms come as the Biden administration announced that
white supremacists and militias inside the US are the biggest threat to
national security
<https://www.reuters.com/world
omestic-terrorism-2021-06-15/> .
Wayne Manis, a former FBI agent took on the Ku Klux Klan, the Aryan Nations
and the Weather Underground before retiring in 1994, said the bureau today
bears little resemblance to the place he worked for years. Manis, author of
the 2017 book "Street Agent: He took on the mob, the Klan and the
terrorists-The true story
<https://www.amazon.com/Street
=nypost-20> ," said the new FBI has an agenda he doesn't understand.
"I and many of my friends from the old FBI are completely astounded about
seeing things that we would have moved on, being totally ignored over the
past year," he said. "Burning a police station? Where are the arrests?
There've been multiple incidents of violence by Antifa and BLM activists
that fall under FBI statutes. The majority of domestic terrorism is on the
left but we're being told it's coming from the right."
Kurt Siuzdak left his job as an FBI agent - after almost 25 years - in
March because, he told The Post, bureau management does not hold bosses
accountable. He blames that on politicization at the top.
Former agent Kurt Siuzdak said FBI management does not hold bosses
accountable. Siuzdak, who is also a lawyer and wrote an upcoming book on
whistleblowers, has been in touch with Veltri. Washington, DC, attorney
David Shaffer filed a sex harassment suit
<https://nypost.com/2021/07/07
booze-and-rainbow-hued-sex-toy
"She got threatened with being investigated for misconduct and they gave the
guy who sent her the dick pic an award for professionalism," Siuzdak said.
"That's today's real FBI."
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