An FBI right-wing infiltration operation tangled in allegations of witness tampering, evidence suppression, and connections to the Oklahoma City bombing has been exposed through one man’s unprecedented Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. government.
And the case isn’t over yet.
Utah attorney Jesse Trentadue’s 2006 FOIA lawsuit against the FBI and CIA for Oklahoma City bombing records is indeed still an open matter, having been sealed and litigated behind closed doors since 2015 over witness tampering allegations.
Trentadue’s case is unprecedented, according to Judicial Watch. It’s rare for a FOIA case to go to trial and even rarer for one to entail allegations as serious as witness tampering, according to Judicial Watch senior investigator Sean Dunagan.
“We’re one of the largest FOIA litigants in this country, and we’ve never been involved in anything that involves that degree of alleged misconduct by the [FBI],” Dunagan said. “It’s astounding.”
Trentadue declined to comment on the sealed aspects of the case, including when the litigation might conclude. However, he did agree to an interview about the events leading up to 2015. He also provided The Epoch Times with access to a trove of court documents, transcripts, and other records that show details about the federal government’s domestic counterterrorism operations.
His records describe an FBI program known as Patriot Conspiracy (PATCON)—a secret operation to infiltrate right-wing and domestic extremist groups.
PATCON has been in the public record for years, described in detail by historian Wendy Painting’s 2016 doctoral thesis-turned-book “Aberration in the Heartland of the Real.” But PATCON has received little media attention outside of the late journalist Will Grigg. Other journalists have attempted to cover PATCON, only to run into censorship issues.
The reasons for the alleged attempts to suppress PATCON are clear, according to Trentadue.
“The FBI’s real objective in PATCON had been to infiltrate and to incite these fringe groups to violence,” he said.
The FBI declined to comment on this story.
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They have been a criminal organization for a very long time, so has the clowns in action AKA CIA. No wonder President Kennedy wanted to break them into a thousand pieces. The clowns in action really got started in the golden triangle in the 60s, talk about cartels this is who started the cartels. They needed people to transport their drugs while they ran cover for them.
I must say this guy is persistent to say the least. I have watched this play out for years.
““The FBI’s real objective in PATCON had been to infiltrate and to incite these fringe groups to violence,” he said.”
I wonder to what extent this operation was put into effect on the internet. Many supposed patriot websites seem to love foaming at the mouth about how random acts of violence will totally bring down the government and anyone who disagrees is a coward.
The FBI is absolutely one of the largest criminal organizations on Earth. And the U.S. govt is right behind.