{"id":1589566,"date":"2022-08-04T16:56:05","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T20:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1589566"},"modified":"2022-08-04T16:56:09","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T20:56:09","slug":"fbi-director-admits-agent-whose-office-ran-botched-whitmer-kidnapping-case-got-a-promotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-director-admits-agent-whose-office-ran-botched-whitmer-kidnapping-case-got-a-promotion\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI Director Admits Agent Whose Office Ran Botched Whitmer Kidnapping Case Got A Promotion"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffbi-director-admits-agent-whose-office-ran-botched-whitmer-kidnapping-case-got-a-promotion%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1589566&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2022-08-04T143728Z_101042169_RC2DYO9N13E1_RTRMADP_3_USA-FBI-WRAY-scaled-e1659634727475.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\">\n<p>FBI Director Christopher Wray indicated that an agent who headed the agency\u2019s Detroit Field Office when FBI operatives allegedly entrapped people into planning to kidnap Michigan\u2019s governor is currently in charge of the D.C. Field Office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Steven M.] D\u2019Antuono was the special agent in charge of the \u2026 Detroit field office and is now the assistant director in charge of the Washington field office,\u201d Wray clarified to Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz during his Thursday Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. Cruz called the move \u201castonishing.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Wray admits to Ted Cruz that the FBI special agent in charge of the Detroit field office during the Whitmer kidnapping debacle is now in charge of the DC field office during the J6 investigation. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DUsXbBX0Vt\">pic.twitter.com\/DUsXbBX0Vt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/greg_price11\/status\/1555216170172780544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 4, 2022<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A judge <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/08\/two-michigan-men-acquitted-plot-kidnap-governor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">acquitted<\/a> two men and declared a mistrial for two others in April after their <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/12\/17\/men-indicted-whitmer-kidnapping-plot-michigan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 2020<\/a> arrests for allegedly plotting to kidnap Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, with their defense contending the FBI conceived and encouraged them into the plot. D\u2019Antuono took charge of the FBI\u2019s Detroit Field Office in 2019 and was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/news\/press-releases\/press-releases\/steven-m-dantuono-named-assistant-director-in-charge-of-the-washington-field-office\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced<\/a> as the D.C. Field Office\u2019s leader just days after the arrests.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat case as I understand it is now pending a re-trial,\u201d Wray testified. A federal judge in June ordered a new trial for the two alleged kidnapping plotters who had not received a verdict, Forbes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/nicholasreimann\/2022\/06\/30\/new-trial-ordered-in-whitmer-kidnapping-case\/?sh=16f5871c32a2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/08\/01\/fbi-raids-radical-socialist-org-russian-front-uhuru-movement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: FBI Raids Radical Socialist Org Accused Of Being A Russian Front)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cruz also expressed belief that the FBI and broader Justice Department have become \u201cthoroughly politicized\u201d and Wray has been \u201cunwilling\u201d to root out the problem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think this is a problem that began during the Obama administration, I think it metastasized with career officials during the Trump administration and I think it continues and is even worse today under the Biden administration,\u201d Cruz said.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FBI Director Christopher Wray indicated that an agent who headed the agency\u2019s Detroit Field Office when FBI operatives allegedly entrapped people into planning to kidnap Michigan\u2019s governor is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1589566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1589566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1589566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1589566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1589566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}