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re: Looking like the masterminds behind the Whitmer Kidnapping plot may have been FBI agents

Posted on 7/23/21 at 10:37 am to
Posted by Gravitiger
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Posted on 7/23/21 at 10:37 am to
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"The FBI made me do it" isnt a defense you can use in court.
It is, it's called entrapment. Need more facts to know whether it's valid here.
Posted by LSUJay13
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Member since May 2008
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Posted on 7/23/21 at 10:38 am to
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Looking like the masterminds behind the Whitmer Kidnapping plot may have been FBI agents


I don't see anywhere that they say its FBI Agents? It looks like informants - in others words convicts that give information to the FBI from the seedy side.
Posted by CrimsonFever
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Posted on 7/23/21 at 10:39 am to
I mean they can try/use it, I worded it wrong, it wont work is what I meant to say.
Posted by LoveThatMoney
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Member since Jan 2008
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Posted on 7/23/21 at 10:42 am to
Saagar and Krystal had a good breakdown of this on their show and yeah it looks bad. The only way it seems to me they may be able to skirt entrapment is that they were informants not agents. But I haven’t studied entrapment and I haven’t taken criminal law in over a decade so I could be completely wrong.
Posted by Centinel
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Posted on 7/23/21 at 10:42 am to
I love how you completely gloss over the fact the FBI were involved and helping these guys.
Posted by wheelr
Member since Jul 2012
5149 posts
Posted on 7/23/21 at 10:42 am to
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Then in an astounding example of information laundering, they used the Yahoo article as an independent 3rd party source in another FISA application. This time thy got it.


Everyone hates hearing this because they don't want to give up convenience, but these agencies don't even need a warrant anymore to track people. They can just buy it.

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Motherboard has also shown how wide spanning the customer base for this sort of location data is, with the U.S. military and various law enforcement agencies also purchasing it, skirting the need to obtain a warrant.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkbxp8/grindr-location-data-priest-weaponization-app

Posted by davyjones
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Posted on 7/23/21 at 10:46 am to
The informants have handlers. The handlers are FBI agents. The handlers direct the informants as to what to do. I cannot begin to imagine regular ole do-gooder citizens simply seeking such a group out and having the legal wherewithal to put together a case solid enough to bring to trial. The FBI was no doubt coordinating the informants' actions.
Posted by cable
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Posted on 7/23/21 at 10:46 am to
Meanwhile they won’t go after drug dealing murderers - guess they’re too dangerous
Posted by LoveThatMoney
Who knows where?
Member since Jan 2008
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Posted on 7/23/21 at 10:47 am to
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The informants have handlers. The handlers are FBI agents. The handlers direct the informants as to what to do. I cannot begin to imagine regular ole do-gooder citizens simply seeking such a group out and having the legal wherewithal to put together a case solid enough to bring to trial. The FBI was no doubt coordinating the informants' actions.


I would tend to agree with you. Just am not read up on the law of entrapment and the many nuances of it. The FBI is not filled with dummies. And they have good lawyers. So it may not technically be entrapment even if it is fishy as frick.
Posted by ThinePreparedAni
In a sea of cognitive dissonance
Member since Mar 2013
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Posted on 7/23/21 at 10:50 am to
From a different thread:

Older post, but currently timely...

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Something Sinister going on with FBI


You tube

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Julian Assange: Its part of the FBI "business model"

The Outer Light 5,742 views




Oct 5
Julian Assange ?? @JulianAssange
Replying to @RedactedTonight

Almost all "terror" plots are created by the FBI as part of its business model.

What is the business of the FBI? Extracting tax. What does it need to do that? A stable threat. Prob? Real terrorists are sporadic & make FBI look weak. Solution? Make them.

https://uk.businessinsider.com/fbi-is-manufacturing-terrorism-cases-2016-6?r=US&IR=T … pic.twitter.com/qMrkbFKMJe


Julian Assange ?? @JulianAssange
The FBI is giving guns to the mentally ill to attack people then leaping in to save the day, cameras rolling. What a bunch of jerks.

6:44 AM - Oct 5, 2017
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—?

Business insider link per Assange

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The FBI is 'manufacturing terrorism cases' on a greater scale than ever before Caroline Simon

Jun. 9, 2016, 6:48 PM 17,952


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The FBI has ramped up its use of sting operations in terrorism cases, dispatching undercover agents to pose as jihadists and ensnare Americans suspected of backing ISIS, aka the Islamic State, Daesh, or ISIL. On Thursday, roughly 67% of prosecutions involving suspected ISIS supporters include evidence from undercover operations, according to The New York Times.


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They're manufacturing terrorism cases," Michael German, a former undercover agent with the FBI who now researches national-security law at New York University's Brennan Center for Justice, told The Times. "These people are five steps away from being a danger to the United States."


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Downs also said that the FBI often targets particularly vulnerable people, such as those with mental disabilities. "Very often, they [the FBI] target people who are genuinely psychotic, who are taking medication," he said.


NY Times

As far as who/why...



The life of a slave...

FEAR = CONTROL
Posted by CrimsonFever
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Posted on 7/23/21 at 10:50 am to
Good lord, someone needs to close the gate on the Qanon board.
Posted by Centinel
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Posted on 7/23/21 at 10:52 am to
The poster with the most severe case of TDS criticizing poliboard posters
Posted by Gravitiger
Member since Jun 2011
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Posted on 7/23/21 at 10:54 am to
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Meanwhile they won’t go after drug dealing murderers - guess they’re too dangerous

WTF are you talking about?
Posted by BuckyCheese
Member since Jan 2015
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Posted on 7/23/21 at 10:57 am to
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The poster with the most severe case of TDS criticizing poliboard posters


From past posts he comes across as just plain ignorant.
Posted by CrimsonFever
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Posted on 7/23/21 at 11:07 am to
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I love how you completely gloss over the fact the FBI were involved and helping these guys.


I am not saying that, but just because the ATF sets up a huge gun sale and you sell them to them doesnt make it entrapment. Would you have had that many guns if they hadnt set up the sale? Probably not. Is it entrapment? No.

I dont feel sory for these guys, how about dont be anti govenment militia members and the FBI wont infiltrate your militia and plan a kidnapping with you?
This post was edited on 7/23/21 at 11:09 am
Posted by TigerBait1971
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Member since Oct 2014
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Posted on 7/23/21 at 11:10 am to
Boot licker
Posted by Centinel
Idaho
Member since Sep 2016
43390 posts
Posted on 7/23/21 at 11:14 am to
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how about dont be anti govenment militia members and the FBI wont infiltrate your militia and plan a kidnapping with you?


The fact you typed this out and don't see the massive problem here is rather telling.

Posted by lsutiger2010
Member since Aug 2008
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Posted on 7/23/21 at 11:16 am to
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This post was edited on 10/18/21 at 11:07 pm
Posted by SouthEndzoneTiger
Louisiana
Member since Mar 2008
10605 posts
Posted on 7/23/21 at 11:27 am to
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If the FBI sets up a drug deal and you sell them a million dollars worth of cocaine guess what, you're still guilty.

These guys trained for this kidnapping made plans for it. "The FBI made me do it" isnt a defense that's gonna get them any sympathy in court. I bet they get 20 years each at least.


You're an idiot. If I would have never sold them the cocaine if not for them "setting it up", then it's entrapment. What part of that do you not get? If you send an informant into my group, a group who has never dealt drugs before, and that informant talks us into dealing drugs, that is not legal. That group would have never kidnapped Whitmer if not for the informants. And you are OK with this?
Posted by SoFla Tideroller
South Florida
Member since Apr 2010
30265 posts
Posted on 7/23/21 at 11:37 am to
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Back the blue


Don't ever confuse FBI agents with uniformed street cops.
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