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Thursday, March 07, 2024

MONTH BEFORE the 2020 presidential election, the Justice Department announced that the FBI had foiled a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, whose pandemic lockdown measures drew harsh criticism from President Donald Trump and his supporters. The alleged plot coincided with growing concern about far-right political violence in America. But the FBI quickly realized it had a problem: A key informant in the case, a career snitch with a long rap sheet, had helped to orchestrate the kidnapping plot. During the undercover sting, the FBI ignored crimes that the informant, Stephen Robeson, appeared to have committed, including fraud and illegal possession of a sniper rifle.

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Ringleader in plot to kidnap Michigan governor sentenced to 16 years in prison

www.reuters.com

Free this hostage !!!

~ Patricide Jeff ~

#1 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2024-03-07 04:30 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

------- clown.

#2 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-03-07 05:09 PM | Reply

I didn't post this long investigative article by The Intercept for idiots like the two of you.

#3 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-03-07 05:34 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

LOL

Jeff is a terrorist sympathizer.

jeff if you hate the FBI so much, go join a militia, I hear they're in vogue in Michigan

#4 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-03-07 05:37 PM | Reply

"During the undercover sting, the FBI ignored crimes that the informant, Stephen Robeson, appeared to have committed, including fraud and illegal possession of a sniper rifle."

That's not unexpected behavior at all.

What would you have the FBI or Congress do about it?

Is it... abolish the FBI?

#5 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-03-07 05:39 PM | Reply

Jeff gets his daily calorie and protein from the manshake from -------- shroom.

#6 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-03-07 05:40 PM | Reply

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 "

These are the guys jeff thinks weren't a threat.

#7 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-03-07 05:42 PM | Reply

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.

Weak minded fools, like jeff, fall for this type of disinformation.

Just raising questions.....

#8 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-03-07 05:44 PM | Reply

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.

Yes, because that is how police work works.

#9 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-03-07 05:44 PM | Reply

The FBI refused to answer a list of questions. "Unfortunately, due to ongoing litigation, we are unable to comment," said Gabrielle Szlenkier, a spokesperson for the FBI in Michigan. Robeson, through his lawyer, also declined to comment.

Weak minded fools like jeff fall for this "implication" that the FBI is hiding something, when they aren't in a position to answer question.

#10 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-03-07 05:45 PM | Reply

"A saying we have in my office is, Don't let the facts get in the way of a good story,' right?"

The irony of this quote in this article is not lost on me.

I am sure it is lost on jeff

#11 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-03-07 05:46 PM | Reply

The FBI agents asked Robeson to sign a nondisclosure agreement and proceeded to coach and threaten him to shape his story and ensure that he would never testify before a jury.

Weak minded fools, like jeff, can't understand that the Intercept has an agenda that allows them to phrase stuff like this (without providing the actual quotes).

#12 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-03-07 05:48 PM | Reply

"We know we have power, right?" an FBI agent told Robeson during this meeting. "We know we have leverage. We're not going to -------- you."

Has jeff never seen or hear a police interrogation before?

#13 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-03-07 05:48 PM | Reply

The clues appeared to point to Robeson as a snitch " or, in the FBI's terminology, a confidential human source.

The Intercept identifying with terrorists.

#14 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-03-07 05:49 PM | Reply

Robeson was talking to Henrik "Hank" Impola and Jayson Chambers, two of the lead FBI agents in the Michigan case. Chambers, who previously played in a rock band that "bases all of its music on the fact that Christians are in a spiritual war," was the registered owner of a private intelligence company whose purported CEO ran a Twitter account known for right-wing trolling and that appeared to tweet about the Michigan case before it was announced.

Wait, I thought the FBI was a left wing outfit out to frame right wing terrorists, er I mean patriots.

I bet this article didn't have an editor

#15 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-03-07 05:51 PM | Reply

(The Intercept is not publishing these reports because they contain identifying information about alleged sex crime victims.)

After publishing the reports.

#16 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-03-07 05:52 PM | Reply

Weak minded fools, like jeff, don't understand that informants tend to be criminals, cause they have information because they hang out with criminals.

Informants tend not to be people of the highest integrity, cause, you know, they are criminals hanging out with criminals. People with integrity tend not to hang out with criminals.

Non-weak minded people, unlike jeff, understand this

#17 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-03-07 05:54 PM | Reply

I didn't post this long investigative article by The Intercept for idiots like the two of you.

#3 | Posted by BellRinger

don't worry....like most despicable, goddamn worthless democrat lying garbage.....they won't understand anyway.

#18 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2024-03-07 05:56 PM | Reply

Federal agents were particularly troubled by messages Robeson had sent to Barry Croft Jr., a primary target in the investigation, that alluded to using violence against elected officials. Croft's lawyer could use those messages to suggest that the kidnapping plot had been Robeson's idea, not Croft's, the agents feared.

You mean the ring leader of the terrorist cell is trying to blame someone else? WOW.

#19 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-03-07 05:57 PM | Reply

"It quickly becomes, from a defense strategy, Well, this was Robey's idea from day one.'"

LOL

19 years in jail. Sucks to be you. You probably shouldn't have tried to kidnap a governor.

#20 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-03-07 05:57 PM | Reply

n the spring of 2020, as the United States grappled with a deadly coronavirus pandemic, Whitmer, a Democrat, issued a "stay home, stay safe" order in Michigan that barred "in-person work that is not necessary to sustain or protect life."

Big picture time

this was Governor Whitmer's sin.

#21 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-03-07 05:58 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

On April 17, Trump weighed in with a tweet: "LIBERATE MICHIGAN!"

------- calling for violence. Never forget

#22 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-03-07 05:59 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Two weeks later, as many as 1,000 protesters attended a rally at the Michigan State Capitol in Lansing in what a state senator later described as a "dress rehearsal" for January 6. The so-called American Patriot Rally was organized by Ryan Kelly, a former Republican gubernatorial candidate in Michigan who was later sentenced to 60 days in prison for taking part in the attack on the U.S. Capitol.

LOLOLOL very fine people

#23 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-03-07 05:59 PM | Reply

The FBI had hired Chappel to infiltrate a ragtag group of gun enthusiasts he'd met through Facebook who called themselves the Wolverine Watchmen. "I let the FBI know that there was talks of storming the Capitol," Chappel, known to the militia group as "Big Dan," later testified.

just putting this there

#24 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-03-07 06:00 PM | Reply

"During the undercover sting, the FBI ignored crimes that the informant, Stephen Robeson, appeared to have committed, including fraud and illegal possession of a sniper rifle."

Ah, the someone else was speeding, too! defense.

Has it ever worked?

#25 | Posted by Danforth at 2024-03-07 06:00 PM | Reply

"There was a plan for mass execution that day," Nessel said.

Reminder this is who jeff is defending.

#26 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-03-07 06:01 PM | Reply

Are you guys done with the jeffringer bukakke yet?

lol jesus.

#27 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2024-03-07 06:01 PM | Reply

what guys? It appears to be a solo performance by twoothy.

#28 | Posted by eberly at 2024-03-07 06:03 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

snoofy and danforth are in there.

#29 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2024-03-07 06:04 PM | Reply

and also BellRinger

the same stink of garbage is okay with the FBI doing anything like this....or the

former agents who lied their despicable loose asses off about laptops.

because for all of the fake moral outrage LIES these leftist-dogma KLAN lemmings lie about....there is one true

phrase that applies in their stupid... coitus... manure.

---it's their byline and engraved somewhere on their political crest....(that's the crest with the little boys on each side getting

their -------- discussed by a grown man....or a grown man in a dress.)

"it's not fascism....when we do it."

#30 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2024-03-07 06:04 PM | Reply

2020 the entire country was rolling with chaos.

Michigan and Tennessee capitol buildings were stormed by militias.

People were dropping dead from Covid.

MAGAts were destroying commercial properties for requiring masks on their properties.

Protests were happening coast to coast. Either to protest Covid restrictions or to protest police brutality.

Trump was inciting violence everywhere he went.

George Floyd. Kyle Rittenhouse, smug boy, BLM, wall of moms, "antifa", Trump refusing to accept his defeat ...

2020 was probably the most chaotic year I've experienced.

#31 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-03-07 06:05 PM | Reply

i am gettting VERY bored with this article about the boring movements of boring morons who join boring militias and do boring terrorism.

#32 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-03-07 06:06 PM | Reply

On April 17, Trump weighed in with a tweet: "LIBERATE MICHIGAN!"

------- calling for violence. Never forget

#22 | Posted by truthhurts

your use of the phrase "calling for violence" is another example of your character.

a goddamn lying sack of garbage....from a kennel.

#33 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2024-03-07 06:06 PM | Reply

Shrimp- Don't take this personally but you need a therapist. You're ------- nuts.

#34 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2024-03-07 06:07 PM | Reply

You'all should do yourselves a favor and don't bother clickingo n the link, its boring and stupid and a defense of a stupid terrorist.

#35 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-03-07 06:07 PM | Reply

a terrorist who has 19 years to rethink his life choices.

#36 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-03-07 06:08 PM | Reply

your use of the phrase "calling for violence"
#33 | POSTED BY SHRIMPTACODAN

Has any politician ever called for violence, maybe give us a few examples,so we know what the Real McCoy looks like?

#37 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-03-07 06:14 PM | Reply

"snoofy and danforth are in there."

LOL

#38 | Posted by eberly at 2024-03-07 06:15 PM | Reply

"snoofy and danforth are in there."

LOL

#39 | Posted by eberly at 2024-03-07 06:15 PM | Reply

When has political liberation not involved violence?

#40 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-03-07 06:15 PM | Reply

lol Larry, lol!

#41 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-03-07 06:16 PM | Reply

I posted this article because it's supposedly newly hatched information. I thought maybe a couple of people on this site might find it interesting. That is all.

#42 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-03-07 07:10 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

"it's not fascism....when we do it."

The people you're defending were planning kidnapping and murder. Because they didn't like a political outcome.

#GotProjection?

#43 | Posted by Danforth at 2024-03-07 07:25 PM | Reply

The FBI are too often involved in the creation of the terrorist plots they arrest people for.

"Three men convicted in a post-9/11 terrorism sting have been ordered freed from prison by a judge who deemed their lengthy sentences "unduly harsh and unjust" and decried the FBI's role in radicalizing them in a plot to blow up New York synagogues and shoot down National Guard planes." Onta Williams, David Williams and Laguerre Payen " three of the men known as the "Newburgh Four" " were "hapless, easily manipulated and penurious petty criminals" caught up more than a decade ago in a scheme driven by overzealous FBI agents and a dodgy informant, U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon said in her ruling Thursday.

#44 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2024-03-07 07:40 PM | Reply

So, white folk bad, black folk ok. Got it.

#45 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-03-07 10:05 PM | Reply

The FBI are too often involved in the creation of the terrorist plots
#44 | POSTED BY SITZKRIEG

Think FBI was the unidentified third co-conspirator at Oklahoma City?

#46 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-03-08 12:26 AM | Reply

"The FBI are too often involved in the creation of the terrorist plots"

Speaking of Oklahoma City, one of the reasons they blew up the Federal Building was because the FBI had assassinated Vicki Weaver exactly one year prior.

It makes its own gravy.

#47 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-03-08 12:32 AM | Reply

47.

Ignition of an illegal DEA weapons stash below the day care center caused most of the damage to the face of the Murrah Building ...

Or so I read.

#48 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2024-03-08 02:52 AM | Reply

Stinkerbell's a fool.

Funny thread, tho...

#49 | Posted by Angrydad at 2024-03-08 07:11 AM | Reply

Think FBI was the unidentified third co-conspirator at Oklahoma City?

#46 | POSTED BY SNOOFY AT 2024-03-08 12:26 AM | FLAG:

No clue, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was connected to them.

#50 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2024-03-08 08:00 AM | Reply

DingDong posted this article because it's supposedly a newly hatched Intercept conspiracy theory.

#51 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-03-08 11:52 AM | Reply

Are you guys done with the jeffringer bukakke yet?
#27 | POSTED BY ALEXANDRITE

Lol! I hope he didn't suffocate from being DRENCHED!

#42 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

Ah! He's alive! Whew!

#52 | Posted by YAV at 2024-03-08 12:03 PM | Reply

"it's not fascism....when we do it."

The people you're defending were planning kidnapping and murder. Because they didn't like a political outcome.

#GotProjection?

#43 | Posted by Danforth

---suck it.

The FBI are too often involved in the creation of the terrorist plots they arrest people for.

"Three men convicted in a post-9/11 terrorism sting have been ordered freed from prison by a judge who deemed their lengthy sentences "unduly harsh and unjust" and decried the FBI's role in radicalizing them in a plot to blow up New York synagogues and shoot down National Guard planes." Onta Williams, David Williams and Laguerre Payen " three of the men known as the "Newburgh Four" " were "hapless, easily manipulated and penurious petty criminals" caught up more than a decade ago in a scheme driven by overzealous FBI agents and a dodgy informant, U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon said in her ruling Thursday.

#44 | Posted by sitzkrieg

#53 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2024-03-08 12:41 PM | Reply

"The FBI are too often involved in the creation of the terrorist plots"

Sensible people walk away at first blush.

You're defending the folks who agreed with the plan of kidnapping and murder, and why? Because their fee-fees were hurt over losing.

Seems the one willing to SUCK IT is you.

#54 | Posted by Danforth at 2024-03-08 12:45 PM | Reply

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