2020 "Whitmer Plot" - The Intercept confirms, FBI played key role
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https://theintercept.com/2024/03/06/gretchen-whitmer-kidnapping-informant/
A key [FBI asset] had helped to orchestrate the kidnapping plot.
... [FBI] agents running the Whitmer kidnapping investigation put the public in danger...
When FBI agents feared their informant might reveal the investigation’s flaws, they sought to coerce him into silence...
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...
Federal agents paid [their asset] nearly $20,000 to participate [in Whitmer]...
Eventually, FBI needed to terrorize their own asset. They brought him in 5 hours and per recording, said:
"We know we have power, right?” ...“We know we have leverage. We’re not going to bullshit you.” “We’re speaking from a position of power. That’s why we’re here. We planned this out. We know we have power.”
I had to read it, to believe it.
It's The Intercept - plenty of genuflections to lib beliefs, are weaved in.