Was the FBI's Whitmer Chicanery a Warm-up for January 6?

Defense attorneys in the Whitmer case are carefully compiling evidence that depicts an elaborate tale of FBI entrapment; at least a dozen FBI informants were involved.

"From the FBI through the domestic terrorism operation center, I was aware of other FBI investigations in Baltimore and Milwaukee and Cincinnati and Indiana involving other militia members," Impola told a judge in March.

To Michigan's only FBI field office in Detroit, was deeply involved in every facet of the Whitmer plot.

Of the top FBI agents in charge of the Whitmer investigation, including Impola, will not testify on behalf of the government amid accusations of misconduct, domestic abuse charges, and political bias.

"The agents here drove the informants' communications with the defendants, and the agents shaped the informants' assertions, statements, and claims. The agents monitored the CHS conversations and other communications with the defendants, and not only approved them but used the information they gathered from them to direct further activity. After monitoring the communications, FBI agents paid the lead informant with an envelope filled with cash. When the same informant reported to the FBI that he was making no progress ... the FBI continued to push its plan."

To run the FBI field office in Washington, D.C., one week after the arrests in the Whitmer plot were announced.

If the Whitmer trial proceeds, even without the caper's top FBI masterminds, it would provide an illuminating backdrop to the first trials of January 6 defendants in 2022.

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