Hi everyone, it's George Stephanopoulos. I am so glad you chose Truth and Lies, the

informant as your next listen. This podcast tells the harrowing true story of an ordinary

man turned unlikely hero, a father and husband who risked it all to save the lives of total

strangers targeted by hateful homegrown extremists. After you listen, check out my documentary,

The Informant, Fear and Faith in the Heartland, it's now streaming on Hulu. It features many

of the people you'll hear in this series, including the host of this podcast, Dick Lair. Now,

here's Truth and Lies, the informant, from ABC Audio.

This episode features secret FBI recordings that contain profanity and other offensive language.

We're including them in their unedited form to convey the full impact of this hateful rhetoric.

I can make it look like a fucking accident and kill a bunch of the motherfuckers and not even be involved.

In the summer of 2016, a group of men in rural southwest Kansas spent months forming a dangerous

militia group, imploding what could have been the worst domestic terror attack in US history.

This was recorded on July 9, 2016, in the midst of a combative presidential election,

where Islamophobia sometimes took center stage.

I think Islam hates us. There's something there, there's something there that there's a tremendous

hatred. And this is a story of one place that Redder Express to.

I'm Dick Lair, I'm a journalist, a professor and an author. I spent years researching the story

from my book White Hot Hate, a true story of domestic terrorism in America's heartland.

And it's something I've talked about in the Hulu documentary, the informant, fear and faith

in the heartland. What happened in Kansas should have been a major headline, but it was

sidelining by the chaos of 2016, Trump, Clinton, Brexit, the phrase fake news, Twitter outbursts.

I was only vaguely aware of the story at the time, but then I met several of the

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