Thread: Brandon Darby: Border Patrol Agents Feel Betrayed by the Trump Administration

Who is Brandon Darby?

Brandon Darby:

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2008 Republican Convention activities

In 2008, Darby infiltrated a small group of protestors at the 2008 Republican National Convention, while working as an FBI informant and subsequently took the stand against them in court. Two of the protestors, David McKay and Bradley Crowder, were serving jail sentences as of late 2011.[12]

Darby started working as an FBI informant in November 2007,[13] which Darby acknowledged and justified in a December 2008 open letter to his former fellow community organizers and activists.[14]

Darby infiltrated groups that organized protests at the 2008 Republican National Convention in Saint Paul, Minnesota, giving the FBI information which led to the seizure of 34 homemade riot shields brought from Texas.[15] Two activists from Texas, David McKay and Bradley Crowder, then purchased materials for and constructed firebombs (Molotov cocktails) that they appear to have contemplated using on state owned vehicles. Evidence of the firebombs was seized in a raid by local police which was in turn supported by the FBI, and so the key issue of further criminality by McKay and Crowder was whether Darby encouraged this escalation in violence.[12] Specific claims by others in attendance at the protest (e.g., Gabby Hicks) state that Darby was "... the one to suggest violence, when the rest of us clearly disagreed..." and that "[a]s an older seasoned activist, Darby had a lot of sway over Crowder and McKay, making them susceptible to his often militant rhetoric"[16] i.e. that he acted as an agent provocateur. As well, a former Darby girlfriend and various former colleagues allege that Darby informed for the FBI not due to patriotism or altruism, but for self-serving motives.[16]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Darby

Really Brietbart? You hire a former FBI informant as your "Texas Managing Editor"????