A man convicted as one of the key orchestrators in the 2020 scheme to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer ...Her Excellency, the dictator of Michigan, 2020 Dem VP contender who never got off the ground... and blow up a bridge in hopes of inciting a civil war was sentenced Wednesday to 19½ years in prison. "Criminal Mastermind™"
The sentence is the longest sentence of the four men convicted on federal charges in the most closely watched domestic terrorism case in recent years.
Barry Croft Jr., 47, of Delaware was described by prosecutors in a federal courtroom in Grand Rapids, Mich., on Wednesday as the "spiritual leader" and "the ideas guy" of the plot, which was ultimately undone after a sting that involved informants and undercover FBI ...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time... agents.
Washington Post reports that Croft and his co-conspirator, 39-year-old Adam Fox of Michigan, were convicted by a federal jury after a second trial in August on two counts of conspiracy, while Croft also was found guilty of an additional weapons charge.
Prosecutors depicted the two men as furious over Covid-19 lockdowns and supposed "tyranny" by elected officials, and poured their anger into a violent mostly peaceful plot they were eager to see grow into a bloody "revolution."
The case has underscored the escalating threat of holy warrior violence, particularly from the far right, at a point of deep political division in the country. Federal prosecutors said the seriousness of the plot made a life sentence for the defendants appropriate.
Croft’s defence argued that he was less involved than Fox and not viewed as a real leader among the group’s members.
After trial runs at statehouses last year, the far-right’s violent mostly peaceful tactics erupted at the Capitol.
Fox was sentenced Tuesday to 16 years in prison, while two more defendants pleaded guilty in 2021 and early 2022 and agreed to testify against Croft and Fox. Another two defendants were acquitted at their federal trial in April.
Fourteen people were eventually arrested by state and federal authorities in an October 2020 sting after Sherlocks found the men had gathered weapons, trained and planned to kidnap Whitmer from her vacation home in northern Michigan and detonate a bridge to disrupt her security detail and the law enforcement response ahead of the 2020 election.
[CBSnews] Rep. Jamie Raskin says he has been diagnosed with lymphoma
Despite who he, what he has done and what political party he represents. I hope he beats the cancer. So he & the other DC Swamp coup members may face TRIAL for their crimes against Trump and the US Citizens.
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Raskin has the chance to change his ways up til the very last second just like all of us. That is what He bought us. I will pray for him and continue to work against everything he supports.
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"You can't send me to Hell. I don't believe in it or You..."
Gack...
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[FOX] The January 6 special committee on Wednesday decided to withdraw its subpoena of former President Trump as it concludes its work.
Trump's testimony was no longer needed, according to the panel's chairman, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS).
Thompson noted in a letter to Trump's attorneys: "In light of the imminent end of our investigation, the Select Committee can no longer pursue the specific information covered by the subpoena."
He added, "Therefore, through this letter, I hereby formally withdraw the subpoena issued to former President Trump, and notify you that he is no longer obligated to comply or produce records in response to said subpoena."
#1
Mid-terms are over, the Fake Hype isn't needed and it would only further expose the LSD's conspiring / working outside the US Constitution and US Law, as politically unhinged abusive tyrants.
#2
/\ Alan Dershowitz said as much when the kangaroo court was initially convened.
The onerous and spiteful exposure of Trump's income taxes is a somewhat similar exercise in futility. If the the fully 'weaponized' IRS had anything on Trump, we would have seen it long, long ago.
"I have to believe the great flood is coming on the twenty-first because I have spent all my money, I quit my job, I quit computer school....I have to believe."
"Convince and ye shall be convinced."
Robert B. Caildini, PH D., 'Influence The Psychology of Persuasion, pages 127-128
#10
It was a show trial and now the show is over. It'll never be a hit on Broadway. It will not play in Peoria.
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They rescind the subpoena but left the vague criminal referral in place. It’s like the neighbor who didn’t bother to put up the icicle lights this year. They just went for one of those Walmart light projectors. No blow up Santa. No white puzzle piece deer with red bows. They are just mailing it in.
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Now, if we can find out more about Wikileaks, the stolen 2020 elections, the murder of Seth Rich, who is on the payroll of the CCP and who was being blackmailed by Epstein for starters. Toss in Benghazi since we got a snow job from Broom Hilda during the hearings.
[Federalist] Emails released on Saturday as part of the latest dump of the "Twitter Files" reveal that the week before the 2020 presidential election, the FBI ...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time... field office investigating Hunter Biden ...son of President Joe: cashiered from the Navy, a crackhead, wheeler dealer, leg humper, horn dog, and general all around ne'er do well. We're supposed to feel sorry for him... sent multiple censorship requests to Twitter — so many in fact, a top attorney for the tech giant found it "odd." This blockbuster detail from the weekend came mere days after the FBI issued a statement framing coverage of the "Twitter Files" as "misinformation" being peddled by "conspiracy theorists."
The FBI has "some folks in the Baltimore field office and at HQ that are just doing keyword searches for violations," then-Twitter legal executive Stacia Cardille stressed in a Nov. 3, 2020, email to Jim Baker, the then-deputy general counsel for Twitter. "This is probably the 10th request I have dealt with in the last 5 days," Cardille continued, before telling Baker to let her know if he had any other questions."
Less than an hour later, Baker responded to Cardille, noting it was "odd" that the FBI is "searching for violations of our policies."
Independent journalist Matt Taibbi published these emails as part of a 50-something Christmas Eve "Twitter Files" thread that he remarked showed "the FBI acting as doorman to a vast program of social media surveillance and censorship, encompassing agencies across the federal government — from the State Department to the Pentagon to the CIA."
The entire thread is newsworthy, but that FBI agents in both the Baltimore field office and at FBI headquarters were running keyword searches for supposed Twitter violations proves hugely significant because both offices were involved in the Hunter Biden investigation.
While the Delaware U.S. Attorney’s Office is — and was at the time of the 2020 election — handling the investigation into Hunter Biden, reportedly for potential money laundering and tax crimes, there is no separate Delaware FBI field office. Rather, the Baltimore FBI field office covers all of Delaware for the bureau and thus supported (and continues to support) the Delaware U.S. Attorney’s Office in its investigation of Hunter Biden.
We also know from multiple FBI whistleblowers that FBI headquarters entangled itself in the Hunter Biden probe: In July 2022, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, announced that "multiple FBI whistleblowers, including those in senior positions," had claimed that "in August of 2020, FBI supervisory intelligence analyst Brian Auten opened an assessment, which was used by a team of agents at FBI headquarters to improperly discredit and falsely claim that derogatory information about Biden’s activities was disinformation, causing investigative activity and sourcing to be shut down."
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No, that FBI office wasn't "investigating" Hunter Biden. That office was blocking and running interference for Joe and Hunter Biden. I suspect it still is.
Very likely a special Task Force. Let's call it what it is, shall we ?
#2
They'll eventually charge him with a minor tax violation and call it "Done"
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I wonder if my company is getting FBI input on our dress code compliance.
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Name those douchebags that gave the orders and who actually did the censorship rather than just what 'FBI Office' they worked at.
There are good folks that work for the FBI and I'm sure they want their names and agency cleared and to do that identify the jerks.
And BTW How about those Ducks! ; )
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Baron Trump probably had two agents assigned to watch him play Fortnight. You got to be seriously demented if you need an entire FBI task force to keep a lid on your exploits.
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At #4. If there were good folks at the FBI we would know all the names and details of the corruption already. Sadly most of our institutions are incredibly broke, corrupt, beyond repair….
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I know one agent very well and a few others that are stellar. I won't say I know inside info, as the old if I told you I'd have to kill you comes out. But I know their character. The FBI is so large with so many divisions and locations I maintain there is still a lot of good there. I see it as an upward battle and possibly being outnumbered.
Airandee, I hope you're wrong as I do pray they aren't beyond repair.
In my view the corruption can't continue if America is to survive
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Nice last-minute win, Jan!
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We have a few retired FBI folk commenting here — disgust at current patterns has been made very clear. The question becomes whether the good ones need to be repurposed elsewhere, or whether the organization itself can be cleaned out.
Elon Musk is demonstrating the necessary skills to take on the task, regardless, and after his work at Twitter will have lists of those who must be regardless.
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Sunlight is a good disinfectant. I never thought they would let Musk do what he has done.
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will have lists of those who must be regardless.
This and my next comment were made on my cellphone. I probably meant something like removed instead of regardless there, but it is long enough since that I cannot be certain. For which I apologize.
[JustTheNews] From Elon Musk’s "Twitter files" to an FBI ...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time... agent's candid testimony, Americans have gotten a glimpse into a once-hidden enterprise where federal agencies pressured social media platforms — directly and through proxies — to censor content under their terms of service. The goal, it appears, was to preserve the ruling elite's favored narratives on everything from the pandemic to election integrity.
The exposés have undercut claims that the FBI only targeted foreign disinformation, making clear that everyday opinions of Americans were also in the crosshairs. They also have raised alarm across the political spectrum about the future of free speech in the world's most famous constitutional republic.
"We've entered into this period of American history where the range of permissible thought and speech has so narrowed that if you depart from it at all you are, you're labeled, you are censored, and you are silenced," retired Democrat Sen. Robert Torricelli told Just the News earlier this month. "It's incredibly dangerous."
"And the odd thing about it is the very institutions which have been the safeguard of American free thought and speech — American universities, think tanks, the media — are the worst offenders," he added.
Ex-Democrat Senator: ’Scared to death’ of widespread free speech censorship by US universities, think-tanks, and mediaEx-Democrat Senator: ’Scared to death’ of widespread free speech censorship by US universities, think-tanks, and media
The FBI is defending itself by saying it did not order social media firms to censor content, and instead just suggested posts that the bureau believed violated the platform's services. It called those who question the bureau's censorship activities conspiracy theorists.
"The men and women of the FBI work every day to protect the American public. It is unfortunate that conspiracy theorists and others are feeding the American public misinformation with the sole purpose of attempting to discredit the agency," it said.
George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley said he was troubled by the bureau's dismissive response, calling for a new Church Committee like the one empaneled by Congress in the 1970s to investigate the bureau's misdeeds a half century ago,
"After Watergate, there was bipartisan support for reforming the FBI and intelligence agencies. Today, that cacophony of voices has been replaced by crickets, as much of the media imposes another effective blackout on coverage of the Twitter Files," Turley wrote in an op-ed in The Hill newspaper. "This media silence suggests that the FBI found the 'sweet spot' on censorship, supporting the views of the political and media establishment."
The revelations about just how the government impacted debate and targeted opinions for censorship have been accelerating. Just the News assembled 10 of the most important disclosures.
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...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time...
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[FOX] The January 6 special committee on Wednesday decided to withdraw its subpoena of former President Trump as it concludes its work. 
...son of President Joe: cashiered from the Navy, a crackhead, wheeler dealer, leg humper, horn dog, and general all around ne'er do well. We're supposed to feel sorry for him...
