braalian
Read this then tell me you don't have doubts that this FBI investigation was all above board...and this is no rightwing rag... it's Buzzfeed...
Prosecutors say the informant’s statements should be barred from court, but defense attorneys have other ideas.
www.buzzfeednews.com
It was a sting operation.
From the definition of sting operation as it pertains the ethical implications and accusations of entrapment:
Law enforcement may have to be careful not to provoke the commission of a crime by someone who would not otherwise have done so. Additionally, in the process of such operations, the police often engage in the same crimes, such as buying or selling drugs, soliciting prostitutes, etc. In common law jurisdictions, the defendant may invoke the defense of entrapment.
Contrary to popular misconceptions, however, rules against entrapment do not prohibit undercover police officers from posing as criminals or denying that they are police. Entrapment is typically a defense only when suspects are pressured into being implicated in a crime they would probably not have committed otherwise, but the legal definition of this pressure varies greatly from jurisdiction to jurisdiction.
This defense of entrapment doesn’t work when the prosecution and law enforcement can prove the accused had predisposition toward the acts the sting orchestrated.
Long before this specific sting operation took shape, the militia members on trial proposed attacking the governors of multiple states, including Whitmer, Democrat Ralph Northam of Virginia and Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine.
Another defendant brought an improvised explosive device to a June 2020 meeting with activists from multiple states and referred to himself as a "terrorist" who was going to "burn motherfucking houses down, blow shit up.”
Obviously, all of this qualifies as establishing predisposition.
Again, it doesn’t matter if the government helped orchestrate a kidnapping plot designed to unearth domestic terrorists.
They infiltrated a group of men who’d been vocal about wishing to commit various kidnappings and brought bombs with them to meetings, and expressed intent to use said bombs.
Yes, they “set up” the defendants by posing as likeminded milita members and convinced the defendants to join them in a plot to kidnap the governor. That’s how stings work.
The FBI infiltrates and “sets up” domestic Islamic terrorists exactly the same way.
