Posobiec on Michigan militia case: 'The word of the FBI is no longer the gold standard in courtrooms'

Human Events Daily's Jack Posobiec broke down the FBI's entrapment scheme in the Governor Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping plot that saw two men acquitted due to the bureau's misconduct.

"Out of Michigan, a major, major story that drives directly to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Julie Kelly of American Greatness has the story," Posobiec noted, highlighting her reporting.

"'In a huge defeat for the U.S. Department of Justice, a jury today acquitted two men accused of conspiring to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer in the fall of 2020,'" read Posobiec from the article.

"Remember that kidnapping plot we were all told, that was the major story on the left in October of 2020, it was the only thing we ever talk about. I have some friends, some family members that I grew up with that are on the left... that I still talk to, and they all sent me this Michigan militia plot, saying 'this is you, this is you guys'" Posobiec recounted.

"It turns out that a jury just found the two ringleaders of this thing, a conspiracy to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer, not guilty. They were acquitted. Because it turns out, the entire thing was an FBI entrapment operation," he said.

Posobiec said that the plot was "put on,"

"We have the text messages of them talking to their informants on how they were going to do it, about how they wanted to entrap as many people as possible because they wanted bigger headlines, and you can see them trying to ramp this up right before the election of 2020."

"Why would the FBI be doing something like that, I don't know! It's very strange," he said, sarcastically.

"And why was it that the special agent in charge, the Detroit field office, later was transferred to the Washington field office just before the events of January 6? Just questions."

The verdicts were announced at the Gerald R. Ford Federal Building in Grand Rapids after more than four days of deliberations; jurors heard 13 days of testimony in a case the government considered one of its biggest domestic terrorism investigations ever, American Greatness reports.

"Daniel Harris and Brandon Caserta of Michigan were found not guilty of conspiring 'to unlawfully seize, confine, kidnap, abduct and carry away, and hold for ransom and reward, or otherwise, the Governor of the State of Michigan.' Jurors could not reach a unanimous decision for Adam Fox, the alleged ringleader, and Barry Croft, Jr., resulting in a mistrial.

"Harris was also found not guilty on charges of conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction for allegedly attempting to build an explosive device to use in the abduction scheme and other firearms charges," he read from the article.

Posobiec then said that "15 years ago, 20 years ago, even 10 years ago, a federal agent, especially, by the way, an FBI agent's testimony at a trial was considered the gold standard. It was the number one, and if you were running a case like this and you had FBI all over it, profilers, crime scene investigators, forensics, the techs, the whole nine yards, it was a done deal... Because juries trusted the FBI.

"But after the events of the last six years, people have begun, in this country, to look at the FBI under a different light. Now, they're not the gold standard.

"When you put them all up there and you look at the evidence, a jury sat and listened to every single one of these FBI experts who testified at length, for over two weeks in this trial, and at the end of it, they said 'no, we ain't buying it. You lied, you set up these guys, you wanted them to take the fall. You entrapped them.' This wouldn't have existed had the FBI not set up this operation, and by the way, the FBI was doing this to the young, to Muslims, and immigrants all throughout the war on terror here in the United States. They were overlooking actual plots.. While they were entrapping people."