FBI's Michigan Plot Going Down in Flames

Y'all recall the supposed "kidnap plot" cooked up by gun fanatics, vaguely-Q-Anon-followers, and other MAGA-like types?

Yah, well, that's not as much a lead-pipe cinch as it was only 180 days ago.

. . . Now the judge will consider defense counsel's latest motion to drop the kidnapping conspiracy charges against Adam Fox, Barry Croft, Kaleb Franks, Dan Harris, and Brandon Caserta; in the April 2021 superseding indictment, which defense attorneys cite in the motion, the Justice Department described the defendants as domestic terrorists who attempted "to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping."

But the real conspiracy -- as court documents, testimony, and communications between FBI handlers and their informants show -- was concocted by federal operatives working inside and outside the FBI Detroit field office. . .

. . . The FBI funded and organized two "militia" conferences in the summer of 2020 to lure would-be kidnappers; handled all expenses so indigent defendants could attend surveillance and training excursions, which were photographed by the government to use as evidence; and paid cash to numerous informants, including at least $50,000 to the lead informant, known as "Big Dan" to the unwitting suspects. . .

. . . Defense attorneys cited several examples of exchanges where defendants pushed back on suggestions to kidnap Whitmer; at one point, "Big Dan" raised the idea of putting a "round of bullets" into a window at Whitmer's cottage, the location of the would-be abduction, and suggested they "mail the casings to the news." The agents and informants, according to defense attorneys, "continued to push to shape a kidnapping plan, even trying to elevate it to murder. . . "

 From this story,, excerpted at AOSHQ

Oh, but there's more!!

The FEEB who oversaw this fantasy-fabrication was promoted to FEEB-in-charge of the D.C. office when the fake "insurrection" of 1/6 was created using FEEB informants, FEEB allies in "rightist" organizations, and a few actual BLM/Antifa activists--which could also have been FEEB plants or informers.

Just co-incidence.  Move along,  Nothing to see here.