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'The Informant' | Ep. 3: Minuteman

20/20

ABC News

True Crime

4.08.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Today we bring you Ep. 3 of "Truth and Lies: The Informant," a new five-part series from ABC Audio that tells the 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. Follow along and listen to the next episode right now on Apple Podcasts (https://apple.co/3wgRdzb), Spotify (https://spoti.fi/3XFQm6X), Amazon Music (https://amzn.to/3ksWvFj), or your app of choice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is Dick Lair, host of Truth and Lies, the Informant.

0:03.6

And this week, we're bringing you the third chapter of our five-part series

0:07.9

about an ordinary man who's recruited by the FBI to help thwart a terror attack.

0:13.6

If you like it, look for the rest of the series right here in the coming weeks,

0:17.7

or get new episodes as soon as they post by following Truth and Lies, the Informant.

0:23.5

The link is in our episode description.

0:25.7

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0:28.6

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0:32.8

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0:36.6

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0:41.6

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0:46.4

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0:51.0

This episode features secret FBI recordings that contain profanity

0:55.3

and other offensive language, or including them in their unedited form

0:59.6

to convey the full impact of this hateful rhetoric.

1:07.2

In the hours that followed the pulse shooting, Patrick Stein calls the Kansas

1:11.6

Security Force militia group together for a Zellocall.

1:15.6

The dust has barely settled. The new cycle is still racing nonstop

1:20.6

with coverage of the horror in Orlando. On the call, the KSF group is in agreement.

1:27.4

This is bad, really bad. Here's Dan.

1:34.0

And everybody's pissed off and you know, I was too, you know,

1:39.2

there was actually a gay nightclub and I was really surprised that I thought

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