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March 08, 2024

Mollie Hemingway: Liz Cheney and the January 6th Kangaroo Court Lied About Trump's Request for 10,000 National Guard Troops and Buried the Evidence for the Request

Sounds insurrectioney.

Definitely sounds like obstruction of Congress.

Former Rep. Liz Cheney's January 6 Committee suppressed evidence that President Donald Trump pushed for 10,000 National Guard troops to protect the nation's capital, a previously hidden transcript obtained by The Federalist shows.

Cheney and her committee falsely claimed they had "no evidence" to support Trump officials' claims the White House had communicated its desire for 10,000 National Guard troops. In fact, an early transcribed interview conducted by the committee included precisely that evidence from a key source. The interview, which Cheney attended and personally participated in, was suppressed from public release until now.

Deputy Chief of Staff Anthony Ornato's first transcribed interview with the committee was conducted on January 28, 2022. In it, he told Cheney and her investigators that he overheard White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows push Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser to request as many National Guard troops as she needed to protect the city.

He also testified President Trump had suggested 10,000 would be needed to keep the peace at the public rallies and protests scheduled for January 6, 2021. Ornato also described White House frustration with Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller's slow deployment of assistance on the afternoon of January 6, 2021.

Not only did the committee not accurately characterize the interview, they suppressed the transcript from public review. On top of that, committee allies began publishing critical stories and even conspiracy theories about Ornato ahead of follow-up interviews with him. Ornato was a career Secret Service official who had been detailed to the security position in the White House.

More at the link.

The leftwing outlet The Intercept just revealed that the Deep State's key entrapment agent for the fake Whitmer Kidnapping Plot began telling FBI agents that the case was, essentially, illegal entrapment. Because the FBI's paid informant revealed that he, the paid agent provocateur, was the mastermind behind the fake kidnapping plot. He'd invented it, he'd arranged it.

So none of the participants in the fake plot could be held liable for what the FBI itself had organized. The FBI was the mastermind behind the plot.

The FBI agents told him to shut up about that and say the lines written for him.

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.

The Whitmer kidnapping case followed a pattern familiar from hundreds of previous FBI counterterrorism stings that have targeted Muslims in the post-9/11 era. Those cases too raised questions about whether the crimes could have happened at all without the prodding of undercover agents and informants.

For the FBI, the stakes in the Whitmer case were high. If defense lawyers learned of Robeson's role in the kidnapping plot, the FBI agents feared, they'd be accused of entrapment. The collapse of the case, built over nearly a year using as many as a dozen informants, two undercover agents, and bureau field offices in at least four states, would have been a public relations coup for right-wing politicians and news media. Both groups have used the problematic investigation as evidence that the Justice Department has been "weaponized" against conservatives -- despite a decadeslong public record proving the opposite -- and as fuel for conspiracy theories that the January 6 Capitol riot was engineered by the FBI.

But the truth about the Whitmer kidnapping case is far more complicated. This story is based on thousands of pages of internal FBI reports and more than 250 hours of undercover recordings obtained by The Intercept. The secret files offer an extraordinary view inside a high-profile domestic terrorism investigation, revealing in stark relief how federal agents have turned the war on terror inward, using informant-led stings to chase after potential domestic extremists just as the bureau spent the previous two decades setting up entrapment stings that targeted Muslims in supposed Islamist extremist plots. The files also suggest that federal agents have become reckless, turning a blind eye to public safety risks that, if addressed, could disrupt the government's cases.

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Federal agents paid Robeson nearly $20,000 to participate in a conspiracy that evolved into a loose plot to kidnap the governor of Michigan, according to the documents. But FBI agents knew that two other informants and some of the defendants in the Whitmer case believed that Robeson was the plot's true architect.

So on December 10, 2020, agents called Robeson into the FBI's office in Milwaukee in an apparent attempt to silence him. In an extraordinary five-hour conversation, which FBI agents recorded, one of Robeson's handlers told him: "A saying we have in my office is, 'Don't let the facts get in the way of a good story,' right?" Despite federal and state trials involving the kidnapping plot, this recording -- which goes to the heart of questions about whether the FBI entrapped the would-be kidnappers -- was never allowed into evidence.

More at the link. The FBI organized and plotted "political violence" all through the run-up to the 2020 election.

Gee why would a law enforcement agency do that?

Related: Here's a pro-Trump ad. I don't know if Trump has anything to do with it. I doubt it. I don't think he's allowed to coordinate with third-party groups.


That's based on the Paul Harvey essay "If I Were the Devil." Thanks to naturalflake for linking that.

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posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 05:34 PM

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