Revolver News has published an astonishing article Tuesday night, raising evidence pointing to the January 6 storming of the Capitol having been planned and organized by people working for the FBI, in a way similar to the foiled “kidnapping plot” against Michigan Governor Whitmer the previous summer. Considering the self-described “shock and awe” prosecutorial campaign waged against participants in the events of that day, enormous suspicion is warranted about the many — at least twenty — unindicted co-conspirators listed in the charging documents against those arrested for storming the Capitol, whose actions were at least as deserving of prosecution as those currently held without bail in solitary confinement — and often were more provocative. (This is purely by means of comparison, and not meant to universally endorse the prosecutions that have taken place.)
Revolver News poses three questions: (1) Leading up to and including 1/6, to what extent were the three primary “militia groups” (Oath Keepers, Proud Boys, Three Percenters) infiltrated by agents or informants of federal agencies? (2) How many federal agents or informants were present at the Capitol during the siege, and how active a role did they play? (3) Among the unindicted co-conspirators referenced in charging documents related to 1/6, how many worked for the federal government?
Thinking back to the Global War on Terror (GWOT), there were many cases (if not a majority of cases) of dangerous plots “foiled” by the FBI or similar agencies revealed to be, essentially, entrapment operations. FBI agents or human sources encouraged their marks — not infrequently individuals with mental problems — to pursue plans to attack, bomb, murder, etc. Weapons, planning, encouragement supplied by the FBI motivated their victims to take actions that then justified their arrest and the opportunity for the FBI to brag about another job well done keeping America safe from The Bad Guys.
More recently, look back to the supposed plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer. Among the 14 individuals who allegedly plotted the “kidnapping” — and the planned overthrow of the state government — at least five are known to have been undercover agents or federal informants. During one van ride to scope out Whitmer’s vacation house, fully 60% of the five people in the van had a relationship to the federal government! What’s more, following the arrest of those plotters who weren’t federal agents or informants, the then-director of the Detroit FBI Field Office, Steven D’Antuono, was given a promotion announced by FDI Director Christopher Wray: to be the head of the Washington Field Office.
The supposed mastermind of the Whitmer Plot, Adam Fox, had been kicked out of his girlfriend’s house and was living temporarily in the basement of the vacuum-cleaner store owned by his friend and employer. It was from this storage space, accompanied by his two dogs, that the sinister Fox supposedly hatched a plan to shake Michigan, that would require the purchase of thousands of dollars in explosives and other supplies.
As a matter of fact, the plot was not initially designed to kidnap Whitmer; it was, according to the DOJ’s indictment, to “storm the Capitol building” in Lansing, Michigan!
All told, FBI operatives played numerous important leadership roles in the plot:
The “explosives expert,” from whom the plotters were to purchase bombs, was an FBI agent.
