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1. 🇺🇲 watson :dealwithit: (watson@freeatlantis.com)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jul-2024 11:08:12 JST 🇺🇲 watson :dealwithit:

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   7/ None of this is necessarily news inside the department.
   An investigation by the Justice Department’s watchdog, Inspector General Michael Horowitz, identified “significant weaknesses with certain aspects of the FBI’s CHS program,” and spelled those out in a 2019 report.
   Oversight of both long-term sources and case-specific informants fell short of department standards, “creating a risk that CHSs are not adequately scrutinized.”

   • 🇺🇲 watson :dealwithit: (watson@freeatlantis.com)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jul-2024 11:08:13 JST 🇺🇲 watson :dealwithit:

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     6/ At trial, informants and agents confessed the rules were broken in the process of engineering the caper;
     violations included sharing a bed with a target, suggesting “overt acts” to produce incriminating evidence, and initiating the lead informant into a fake militia to advance the plot.
     Another longtime informant—a convicted felon many times over—committed at least two crimes while working the Whitmer fednapping ruse and was accused by the government of acting as a “double agent.”

   • 🇺🇲 watson :dealwithit: (watson@freeatlantis.com)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jul-2024 11:08:14 JST 🇺🇲 watson :dealwithit:

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     5/ of the scandal.
     “[The] bureau put him on its payroll as a confidential human source, or CHS, making him part of the bureau’s untouchable ‘sources and methods’ sanctum and thereby protecting him and any documents referencing him from congressional and other outside scrutiny,” investigative reporter Paul Sperry wrote this week.
     The FBI-hatched plot to “kidnap” Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer involved numerous informants working out of multiple FBI field offices.