FBI enlisted Proud Boys leader to inform on antifa, lawyer says

[DonViejo]

The agents who met with Joseph Biggs wanted to know what he was “seeing on the ground," his lawyer said, adding, "They spoke often."

March 31, 2021, 7:29 AM EDT / Source: Associated Press
By The Associated Press

FBI agents recruited a Proud Boys leader to provide them with information about antifa networks months before he was charged with storming the U.S. Capitol with other members of the far-right extremist group, a defense attorney says.

Proud Boys “thought leader” and organizer Joseph Biggs agreed to provide the FBI with information about anti-fascist activists in Florida and elsewhere after an agent contacted him in late July 2020 and arranged to meet at a restaurant, Biggs’ lawyer, J. Daniel Hull, wrote Monday in a court filing.

The two agents who met with Biggs wanted to know what he was “seeing on the ground," Hull said. Over the next few weeks, Biggs answered an agent's follow-up questions in a series of phone calls.

"They spoke often," added Hull, who is petitioning a judge to keep Biggs out of jail pending trial.

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[lagomorph777]

1. He was informing them about an imaginary group?

Was the FBI actually that stupid, or were they really pumping him indirectly to learn about his own terror group?

[fescuerescue]

5. Maybe the FBI is trying to confirm they don't exist

that's what the FBI does. investigate criminals or potential criminals.

[Lovie777]

7. Yes . ...

RWers thought up the name "Antifa" to label all groups that they hate. I remember Treason Barr helped spread disinformation on their fake label inorder to cover up for their friends and cult members - White Supremist" groups.

[C_U_L8R]

2. Garbage in. Garbage out.

[Dream Girl]

3. Bogus. Why woul they expect hi to know anything about "antifa"?

Edited to add an organization that that does not exist.

[marble falls]

4. I know if I wanted good info on what the Blues are up to, I'd hire the Red party chairman ...

... to get me the good stuff, said no one ever.

[edhopper]

6. "his lawyer said"

no need to read further.

[greenjar_01]

12. Correct

This guy was a straight up snitch ON the Proud Boys. His lawyer is trying to save him from getting jammed up with the ABs in lock-up.

[crud]

8. It's like the Local Sherriff

asks the KKK who they should arrest next.

[Yonnie3]

9. It seems to me ...

that Biggs needs the FBI to come forward and tell the judge how valuable the information was and how it prevented an attempt at insurrection January 6th and how his ongoing flow of information is keeping the USA safe.

I'm not holding my breath on this one, nor should Biggs.

[czarjak]

10. Operation Unleash the Cracker

[greenjar_01]

11. Bullshit

You don't recruit the Klan leader to inform on the Black Panther Party. You recruit the Klan leader to inform on the Klan.

Basically, they know it's going to come out that he too was an informant for the FBI (as was Enrique Tarrio), so they're concocting this ridiculous lie to give him cover.

[uponit7771]

13. If this is true then its a tell tale into why the FBI was OK with the 1/6 terrorist but not BLM

[NameAlreadyTaken]

14. Why didn't they just go down to their local Antifa office?

There's one in every town.