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Have You Seen This Man?

Introducing 'Truth & Lies: The Informant'

Have You Seen This Man?

ABC News

True Crime

4.22.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2023

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Check out "Truth and Lies: The Informant" from our colleagues at ABC Audio, a remarkable story of an ordinary man who risked his life as an FBI informant to stop what would've been one of the worst terrorist attacks in U.S. history. A new five-part series, available on Apple Podcasts (https://apple.co/3wgRdzb), Spotify (https://spoti.fi/3XFQm6X), Amazon Music (https://amzn.to/3ksWvFj), or wherever you're listening now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Sunny Hausten. I want to tell you about a new podcast I think you'll like from my colleagues at ABC News.

0:07.3

Truth and lies, the informant, tells the story of an ordinary Kansas man who's recruited by the FBI to stop a terror attack that's being planned in his own backyard.

0:18.0

Listen along as he wears a hidden wire while going undercover with a dangerous militia group and risks his own life to save others.

0:27.0

We're about to play you the trailer for this season of Truth and Lies. While you're listening, I hope you'll take a few seconds to click the link in our episode description and follow the show for the rest of the story or search Truth and Lies, the informant wherever you're listening now.

0:45.0

I can make it look like a f***ing accident and kill a bunch of f***ing and not even be involved.

0:53.0

In Southwest Kansas, a group of men started meeting in secret. They would spend hours, weeks, months forming a dangerous militia group and plotting a devastating attack on the Muslim population in Garden City.

1:07.0

I can't do matter if there is no f***ing Muslim. There's only one good f***ing time like a mess of death.

1:13.0

Straight out.

1:14.0

What they planned would have been one of the worst acts of terrorism in US history.

1:19.0

Well, I just would have completely shaken the foundation of America. But it didn't happen.

1:29.0

I'm Dick Lair. I'm a journalist who dug deep into figuring out how this attack was thwarted. And it led me to one man, Dan Day.

1:39.0

I truly believe that, you know, God put me there. It's right time for whatever reason. Right place with the right time.

1:49.0

He became an informant for the FBI and risked everything to do what he thought was right.

1:55.0

And that's why I immersed myself in stacks of court documents, listened to hours of secret FBI recordings and that first hand the people involved.

2:05.0

Because I knew this was a story America needed to hear.

2:11.0

A story about immigrants making a life for themselves in Garden City, Kansas, and how all of that was threatened.

2:19.0

No idea that people can't be so hateful, so bluntly hateful.

2:27.0

About xenophobia and white nationalism taking root at home.

2:31.0

I'm sick of seeing these coming into this country.

2:35.0

And about a man who decided to put his life on the line to save others.

2:39.0

Ask yourself, would you be willing to do what he did?

2:45.0

Would you be willing to risk what he risked?

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