wrosecrans t1_jeczb5c wrote on March 31, 2023 at 2:43 AM

Reply to comment by stickyWithWhiskey in FBI informant testifies at Proud Boys sedition trial — for the defense by Rage_Like_Nic_Cage

Yes, I think that's what everybody understands an informant to be. The problem is that the FBI was clearly terrible at recruiting informants, and put way too much trust in them. The failure by the Dems to clean out corrupted institutions means that the Proud Boys have been able to basically use credulous FBI agents to launder Proud Boy ideas into the Federal Government.

This resulted in things like Chad Wolf genuinely trying to hunt imaginary phantom Antifa terrorists using DHS fusion centers during the 2020 social justice protests. The rank and file agents who were working in those fusion centers are still there. And the informants issue is representative of the broader issue of who was doing the informant recruiting, and what sort of information they were interested in, and what they did with that information.

krumpet_ t1_jed26ln wrote on March 31, 2023 at 3:07 AM

You are making too many assumptions. You mark this event as proof dems are not cleansing the FBI of Trump Loyalists. When someone clearly shows how your assumption is false. You then show once again your lack of understanding of an informant. They are not recruited. You can't prove an argument by restating your argument. This informant being called as a witness proves none of the subsequent nonsense you are talking about either.

wrosecrans t1_jed826l wrote on March 31, 2023 at 4:00 AM

> They are not recruited.

According to : https://legalbeagle.com/7801964-become-fbi-informant.html

"There are several ways to become an FBI informant. The most common way to become an FBI informant is to be approached by the FBI. If the FBI has identified you as a person who has a connection to a criminal enterprise, activity or target, the Bureau may approach you to provide it with information."

What specific distinction are you drawing between the FBI "approaching someone to be an informant" and the FBI "recruiting" an informant? Because most native English speakers would consider those synonymous. I understand what an informant is. Please clarify how you think a person goes from being a non-informant to being an informant, if you think nobody in the FBI is involved in picking people to be selected as informants?

89141 t1_jefmxdb wrote on March 31, 2023 at 5:39 PM

Oh no, people on the right assume that those snitches are FBI.