We believe for government agencies to have employees or CIs planted in organizations which are angry with the government is inappropriate if, and only if, those individuals act as agitators and cheerleaders for unlawful acts. Enough bad behavior happens naturally without the government stirring up more.
Getting bored with waiting around for something unlawful to happen and urging immediate action, in our opinion, becomes entrapment. It is then difficult to know if, without government encouragement, anything unlawful would have occurred.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who watches the watchers? The following is reported in Trending Politics:
Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) in scathing cross-examination of the FBI’s Executive Assistant Director Jill Sanborn on January 11th asked her about the Feds’ involvement in the Capitol building events. Her responses were downright chilling to watch:
“I want to turn to the FBI,” Cruz said. “How many FBI agents or confidential informants actively participated in the events of January 6th?”
“Sir? I’m sure you can appreciate that I can’t go into the specifics of sources and methods,” Sanborn replied.
“Did any FBI agents or confidential informants actively participate in the events of January 6th?’ Cruz went on. “Yes or no? January 6th?”
“No, sir,” Sanborn responded. “I can’t, I can’t answer that.”
“Did any FBI agents or confidential informants commit crimes of violence on January 6th?” Cruz continued.
“I can’t answer that, sir,” she replied.
“Did any FBI agents or FBI informants actively encourage and incite crimes of violence on January 6th?” he pressed.
“Sir, I can’t answer that,” Sanborn responded.
There is more, but you get the drift of what is happening. If the answers were all "No," there would be no reason to equivocate or hide behind the "sources and methods" dodge. One could wish Sen. Cruz had asked something like the following:
In a hypothetical situation in which Congress suspected that inappropriate or unlawful sources and methods had been intentionally employed by the FBI, who could we ask who would be authorized to respond? How could Congress determine if our suspicion was or was not correct?
