1/14/22 Ken Bensinger on the Whitmer Kidnapping Plot and January 6th

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🗓️ 20 January 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Ken Bensinger of Buzzfeed News returns to the show to follow up about the 2020 plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer. Although the plot made national headlines when 14 militia members were arrested, Bensinger and fellow journalists dug deeper to find a large presence of FBI agents and informants involved than had gone reported. Further, some informants had apparently played a role in instigating the entire scheme. Bensinger explains the details and developments in that case, and he gives his thoughts and observations about the riot at the National Capitol on January 6th. Discussed on the show: The Terror Factory by Trevor Aaronson Ken Bensinger’s latest reporting on both cases Ken Bensinger is an investigative reporter for BuzzFeed News and the author of Red Card: How the U.S. Blew the Whistle on the World’s Biggest Sports Scandal. Follow him on Twitter @kenbensinger. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: The War State and Why The Vietnam War?, by Mike Swanson; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; EasyShip; Free Range Feeder; Thc Hemp Spot; Green Mill Supercritical; Bug-A-Salt and Listen and Think Audio. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjYu5tZiG. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:01.2	All right you guys, introducing Ken Ben Singer from Buzzfeed News at
1:07.1	BuzzFeed News.com and this is a follow-up on the Michigan kidnapping plot of 20 of October 2020.
1:20.0	It's called the FBI knew exactly what its double agent was doing says a defendant in the Michigan kidnapping case
1:28.9	Welcome back to the show Ken. How are you doing sir?
1:31.8	Very good.
1:33.0	Thanks for having me back.
1:34.0	Happy to have you here.
1:35.0	I really appreciate you covering this important story for us here.
1:38.0	And of course we did a previous episode where we covered your original great reporting on kind of the background of the story here and the different groups involved and how they were infiltrated by the FBI and everything.
1:52.0	So, it's possible maybe to do a little thumbnail of that?
1:56.4	Is that within the realm of even being conceivable
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