The head of the FBI’s field office in Washington, D.C., has a lot of explaining to do.

[Geee]

American Greatness

few days after the Capitol protest on January 6, 2021, a tough-talking FBI chief with a Boston accent promised the American people that the bureau would spare no resource in hunting down everyone and anyone involved in the four-hour disturbance that day. 

Steven M. D’Antuono, the newly appointed head of the Washington, D.C. FBI field office, gave the public a stern warning. “The FBI will leave no stone unturned. This is a 24/7, full bore, extensive operation,” D’Antuono explained during a January 12, 2021 press conference at the Department of Justice. “As Director Wray says, the FBI does not do easy.”

His agency, D’Antuono bragged, has a “long memory and a broad reach.” Agents from 56 FBI field offices across the country “will be knocking on your door if we find out you were part of the criminal activity at the Capitol.” He urged people to turn in their co-workers, neighbors, and relatives if they had information that could help the FBI in its dragnet.

 

Turns out, his comments weren’t just Beantown-style braggadocio. More than 850 Americans since then have been investigated, arrested, and charged for mostly nonviolent offenses related to the January 6 protest. Armed FBI agents have conducted early morning raids at homes across the country, using military style vehicles to batter in front doors while traumatizing families, children, and neighbors in the process. It is a crusade of fear and terror meant to reinforce D’Antuono’s threats that those who dared to demonstrate against the fraudulent election of Joe Biden that day will pay a hefty price. 

Nearly 20 months later, D’Antuono’s office continues to announce new arrests.

And it’s not just Trump voters who face D’Antuono’s wrath. His agents publicly arrested Peter Navarro, a former Trump White House advisor, at Reagan National Airport in June on contempt of Congress charges. Navarro said FBI agents placed him in handcuffs and leg irons even though he lives next door to FBI Headquarters in Washington. After Steve Bannon, a longtime Trump confidant, was convicted on those same charges in July, D’Antuono boasted in a Justice Department press release how it was a great day for democracy: “The tenets of our government rely upon citizens adhering to the established rules of law. Lawful tools, such as subpoenas and other legal orders, are critical in our system of government. Mr. Bannon was found guilty of contempt by a jury of his peers for his choice to ignore a lawful subpoena.”

D’Antuono’s agents also led the raid of Mar-a-Lago on August 8.

 

Which is where the intersection of D’Antuono’s conduct at the FBI gets a bit tricky, if not shady as hell.

The day after D’Antuono’s agents traveled from D.C. to Palm Beach to ransack Trump’s residence and abscond with, among other items, the former president’s passports, a federal judge in Grand Rapids, Michigan began jury selection in the retrial of two men accused of conspiring to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer in 2020. A jury in April could not reach a verdict in the case against Adam Fox and Barry Croft but jurors acquitted their two co-defendants after defense attorneys successfully argued their clients had been framed by the FBI.

The FBI field office primarily responsible for running the entrapment scheme was located in Detroit—at the time headed by none other than Steven M. D’Antuono. Unlike his public self-praise for the FBI’s role in the January 6 investigation, however, D’Antuono has been uncharacteriscially mum about what the government considers its biggest domestic terror investigation in recent history.

That’s because it wasn’t an investigation; it was a set up. No fewer than a dozen FBI undercover agents and informants worked at the direction of FBI officials in numerous field offices to engineer the scam. Agents with D’Antuono’s office in Detroit hired and handled the lead informant, a man named Dan Chappel, to stitch the group of alleged kidnappers together over a seven month period beginning in early 2020.

[Valin]

1 hour ago, Geee said:

American Greatness

 

His agency, D’Antuono bragged, has a “long memory and a broad reach.” Agents from 56 FBI field offices across the country “will be knocking on your door if we find out you were part of the *criminal activity at the Capitol.” He urged people to turn in their co-workers, neighbors, and relatives if they had information that could help the FBI in its dragnet.

 

 

 

*Criminal activity at the Capitol? In case you are wondering that would be, being on or within 8 block of Capital Hill on Jan. 6 2021, watching it on TV (or reruns of it), Reading about it in unapproved, misinformation ladened articles, anytime in the last 2 1/2 years, thinking mean thoughts or making fun of Liz Cheney, posting Let's Go Brandon memes, voting for (or Considering, can't be too careful with bad thought) Donald Trump, NOT saying the 2020 election was the safest, most secure, fairest election in history.

THE question they will ask is "Are you now, or have you ever been a supporter of Donald Trump?"

 

I REALLY wish i was being sarcastic, but it sue appears this is what is going on.

[Valin]