FBI uses informers, entrapment to bring kidnap charges in Michigan – The Militant

At least 12 FBI informants and three FBI agents worked together to egg on and entrap 14 men, and then frame them up for supposedly plotting to kidnap Michigan’s Democratic Party Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in late 2020.

In September 2020 a group of men gathered in a Michigan rural camp to conduct military-style exercises. As part of this, they were organized to survey the landscape around Whitmer’s nearby vacation cottage. Two of them inspected a bridge in the vicinity and allegedly discussed how it could be blown up. When they gathered together that evening, a man identified as “Big Dan” wanted to know if everyone was “down with what’s going on.”

Of the dozen men on that nighttime trip, four of them — including Big Dan, who was paid $54,000 for his services as “Confidential Human Source-2” — were either government informants or undercover FBI agents....

FBI uses informers, entrapment to bring kidnap charges in Michigan – The Militant