FBI: corrupt beyond salvation
The Friday Letter / No. 450 / Orlando, Florida
Suspicions and evidence are growing that both the plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and the staged Jan. 6 occupation of the Capitol were inside jobs planned and executed by the FBI.
Attorneys for the Wolverine Watchmen, an off-the-edge militia group whose members are charged in the Whitmer plot, said 11 FBI informants were involved. The prosecution's case became more complicated following the arrest Sunday of an FBI agent investigating the plot who is accused of smashing his wife's head against a nightstand and other violent actions after a swingers party they both attended.
A report at left-of-center BuzzFeed “also reveals that some of those informants, acting under the direction of the FBI, played a far larger role than has previously been reported. Working in secret, they did more than just passively observe and report on the actions of the suspects. Instead, they had a hand in nearly every aspect of the alleged plot, starting with its inception. The extent of their involvement raises questions as to whether there would have even been a conspiracy without them.”
In Washington, the government refuses to answer questions about the Jan. 6 rally that led to something like 200 people breaking police lines and entering the building. Three major questions remain: Who killed Ashli Babbitt? Why won’t the government release its 14,000 hours of surveillance tapes of the incident? How many FBI agents and informants were involved, and how extensive was the FBI's role in planning and executing it?
Glenn Greenwald is a self-identified liberal who has been at the forefront in exposing corruption in the FBI and on the left in general.
On Tucker Carlson's June 18 show, reported here by RealClear Politics, he said “The vast majority of times that you heard the FBI applauding themselves for having stopped a terror plot domestically was actually a plot that they themselves governed and directed with informants and with operatives exactly of the type we know for certain they put into the Proud Boys and the Three-Percenters, two of the three groups they claim are behind January 6.”
“The only way to claim this kind of crazy conspiracy theory is if you are completely ignorant about what the FBI does or lying on purpose to cover up what the FBI does when it acts domestically.”
This story is developing.
Short takes on the news
Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream establishes itself as what Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett calls “the anti-Israel ice cream” after B&J said it will no longer serve the Gaza Strip or West Bank, what it claims is “occupied Palestinian territory,” Fox Business reports. B&J says it will continue to sell in the rest of Israel, but Israelis might not be such eager customers. “Now we Israelis know which ice cream not to buy,” former PM Netanyahu tweets. The company, long involved in anti-American leftist political activity, earlier announced support for the domestic terrorist group Black Lives Matter and came out with an anti-Trump flavor. . . .
Throw out those racist babies with the bathwater. Hasbro, the company that decided that its own Mr. Potato Head is sexist, indoctrinates employees to believe that white babies become racists by five and as early as three months, the Daily Mail reports. Other products you won't want to buy from these disturbed people include Monopoly, Battleship, Operation, My Little Pony and G.I. Joe. . . .
The Louisiana Senate votes along party line to override Gov. John Bell Edwards' veto of a bill that protects female athletes from having to compete with boys who call themselves girls. In the House, Republicans will need some Democrat support to enact the law, the Associated Press reports. . . .
Perennial office-seeker Terry McAuliffe proudly accepts endorsement of a pro-abortion, anti-police group called NARLVirginia in his campaign for governor, the office he held from 2014-2018, The Federalist reports. A Clinton loyalist who headed Hillary's 2008 campaign for president, McAuliffe warns Virginians that “a right-wing Supreme Court (is) ready to hack away at the right to choose.”
More free stuff for illegals. House Democrats are advancing a bill that would give student financial aid to illegal alien children, Campus Reform reports. HR 4502 would repeal the current ban on financial aid to other than U.S. Citizens and certain legal aliens. . . .
Hunter Biden's seized laptop computer reveals that Joe Biden used a private, non-secure email account to funnel information that he had obtained “from the State Department as vice president to his globetrotting, foreign-deal making son Hunter Biden,” Just the News reports. Joe Biden's illegal activity is similar to Hillary Clinton's during her time as Secretary of State. Neither has been indicted. . . .
The Biden regime urges government school teachers to “disrupt whiteness and other forms of oppression” in a Department of Education handbook. Published this year, the document links to a Marxist organization called the Abolitionist Teaching Network and its “Guide for Racial Justice & Abolitionist Social and Emotional Learning.” According to Campus Reform, the organization is the creation of a group of leftist college professors (sorry for the redundancy) that promotes reparations to black people and for abolishing the police. . . .
No thanks, Boris. Eric Clapton says he won't perform in venues where CPC coronavirus passports are required. “I will not perform on any stage where there is a discriminated audience present,” he said following an announcement from the PM. – from a story at the Daily Wire.
Preparation: a key to leadership. The California prison system is showing its strong commitment to leadership and preparedness: It's handing out condoms and the emergency contraception called Plan B to female prisoners who are raped by the womens prison's growing population of male inmates who call themselves girls. – from a story at the Christian Post.
Quote for today
“Whether it's a nine millimeter pistol or whether it's a rifle, is ridiculous. I'm continuing to push the elimination of a sale of those things. But I'm not likely to get that done in the near term.” – Joe Biden, in a tweet.
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