Posted on 11/10/2022 8:26:27 PM PST by bitt
While we’ve all been heavily focused on the election, the NY Times dropped an important story about Jan. 6 that many didn’t notice.
Remember when Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) grilled an FBI official about FBI or confidential human sources (informants) who may have been involved or had knowledge about Jan. 6?
The Columbia Bugle 🇺🇸 @ColumbiaBugle · Follow Senator @tedcruz's Full Questioning Of The FBI At Senate Judiciary Hearing Today About Whether There Were FBI Informants Present On January 6th And Ray Epps
"How many FBI agents or confidential informants actively participated in the events of January 6th?"
"Who is Ray Epps?"
(VIDEO)
Turns out that one of the top people in the Oathkeepers — their vice president — was an FBI informant, according to the NY Times.
"An F.B.I. informant who was embedded for months in the inner circle of Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the Oath Keepers militia, is likely to testify as a defense witness at the seditious conspiracy trial of Mr. Rhodes in connection with the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
The informant, Greg McWhirter, served as the Oath Keepers’ vice president but was secretly reporting to the F.B.I. about the group’s activities in the weeks and months leading up to the Capitol attack, according to two people familiar with the matter."
But that wasn’t all. Let’s read on.
"Mr. McWhirter is the second known F.B.I. confidential source who was in a position to provide information to federal agents about the Oath Keepers before Jan. 6, raising questions about why investigators did not know more about the attack on the Capitol.
Near the start of Mr. Rhodes’s trial, Abdullah Rasheed, a former Oath Keeper from West Virginia, told the jury that he became alarmed by the violent language Mr. Rhodes used during a video conference with members of his group in November 2020 and provided the F.B.I. with a recording of the call.
“The more I listened to the call,” Mr. Rasheed testified, “it sounded like we were going to war against the United States government.”
Officials at the F.B.I. did not respond to Mr. Rasheed’s initial attempts to contact them and only reached out to him after Jan. 6.
The F.B.I. also had a confidential source in the Kansas City chapter of the Proud Boys in the months leading up to Jan. 6. That person, a low-level member of the far-right group, marched with other Proud Boys into the Capitol on Jan. 6. But in meetings with the government before the Capitol was stormed, he told investigators that the organization had not planned to attack the building and stop the certification of the 2020 election."
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So how deep was Ray Epps. Head first knee deep? Did the FBI push & pull this whole insurrection & entrap innocent civilians?
There is video evidence of Oath Keepers (including Rhodes, I think) penetrating a crowd of protesters with a Cap Pol captain to rescue Cap Police officers trapped in what they felt was a hostile environment; some protesters in the crowd cursed the Oath Keepers for interfering.
There are a few thousand hours of video being sequestered by capitol law enforcement, who refuse to release it, that defense attorneys believe would be exculpatory to Oath Keepers, and others.
There is much evidence that the whole fiasco on Jan 06 was a set up by the administration, starting with the refusal of Prez Trump's offer of Natl Guard troops. The House's Jan 06 Comte has adamantly suppressed that info, along with plenty else!
They aren’t informants, but instigators.
Trying to convince somebody to do something illegal so they have a scalp.
Did the story about “scaffold commander” being a particular newsman (with a talent for talking to crowds) ever get any traction? IIRC he was ID’d by someone who believed his crowd rousing talent, vocal patterns, and his bottom row of teeth were a match. I did an i’net search for the story, hoping to see the guy’s name again, but didn’t get anywhere.
Out of curiosity, does the FBI have any type of recording of this video call
where Rhodes was talking of violence, etc? Inquiring minds would love to know.
Video sequestered by Capitol police or by Pelosi?
The FBI is so much smarter than state-security organizations like the Gestapo or KGB
If you want to control the opposition - the best way is to have a hand in creating it, and thus controlling it.
Maybe, just maybe, that should have been a red flag?
How deep was ray epps????
Well he had a maricopa county FBI lawyer defending him
The KGB's predecessor, the GPU, gave the world its greatest example of doing just that. Read up about "the trust," which allowed the Bolsheviks to take control of the anti-Bolshevik groups trying to overthrow the Bolsheviks.
“Traction” Now that’s funny.
EXCLUSIVE: Is Leftwing Journalist John Nichols the Infamous January 6 “Scaffold Commander”?
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4105532/posts
Yeah that’s a good point.
First rule of warfare. Never underestimate your enemy.
After that, everything they do will fall into place and make sense.
Read the article.
Bkmk
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