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Greg McWhirter, Informant in Oath Keepers, To Testify at Rhodes’s Trial
Nov 8, 2022
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By Jules Vasquez
And strangely, he might be called in defense of Rhodes, the leader of Oath Keepers. According to a New York Times article:
“Despite their relationship with Mr. McWhirter, federal prosecutors decided not to call him as a government witness at the trial of Mr. Rhodes and his four co-defendants, which is now unfolding in Federal District Court in Washington. The prosecution rested its case last week without calling other key cooperating witnesses, including three members of the Oath Keepers who pleaded guilty to seditious conspiracy charges.
Mr. McWhirter, 40 and a former sheriff’s deputy in Montana, was expected to appear at the trial on Tuesday as a witness for Mr. Rhodes — an unusual move that suggests Mr. Rhodes’s lawyers believe he has information that could help their case.”
He was on the stand today, he should have been on it earlier, but apparently suffered a heart attack while on the plane.
He’s not the only informant that has come out of the Oath Keepers, according to the New York Times: “Mr. McWhirter is the second known F.B.I. confidential source who was in a position to provide information to federal agents about the Oath Keepers before Jan. 6, raising questions about why investigators did not know more about the attack on the Capitol.
Near the start of Mr. Rhodes’s trial, Abdullah Rasheed, a former Oath Keeper from West Virginia, told the jury that he became alarmed by the violent language Mr. Rhodes used during a video conference with members of his group in November 2020 and provided the F.B.I. with a recording of the call.”
The police got back to Rasheed only after Jan 6th, which might be telling.
There’s another informant the FBI has that they have not revealed, a low-level member from Kansas city.
Part of Rhodes’s defense was his belief that they were going to have to go to a street war against Antifa:
“As part of his cooperation with the government, Mr. McWhirter told the F.B.I. about a nascent plot by the Oath Keepers to ambush someone affiliated with the leftist movement known as antifa in the Pacific Northwest, according to one person familiar with the matter. The F.B.I. had sought to use more aggressive investigative techniques to pursue the case but lacked the evidence to move forward, the person said.
In court on Monday, outside the presence of the jury, prosecutors at Mr. Rhodes’s trial described what appeared to be a similar plot, saying that the F.B.I. had obtained information during its investigation of the Oath Keepers that in September 2020, Mr. Rhodes discussed a plan to lure members of antifa in the Portland, Ore., area into the open and attack them.
Around the time the plot was discussed, a self-described antifa activist from the Portland area was implicated in the fatal shooting of a Trump supporter, Aaron J. Danielson, during a violent skirmish between members of a far-right group called Patriot Prayer and leftist demonstrators. The antifa activist, Michael Reinoehl, was later shot and killed by members of a U.S. marshal’s task force.”
To read the article on New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/08/nyregion/oath-keepers-trial-january-6.html
Nov 8, 2022
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By Jules Vasquez
And strangely, he might be called in defense of Rhodes, the leader of Oath Keepers. According to a New York Times article:
“Despite their relationship with Mr. McWhirter, federal prosecutors decided not to call him as a government witness at the trial of Mr. Rhodes and his four co-defendants, which is now unfolding in Federal District Court in Washington. The prosecution rested its case last week without calling other key cooperating witnesses, including three members of the Oath Keepers who pleaded guilty to seditious conspiracy charges.
Mr. McWhirter, 40 and a former sheriff’s deputy in Montana, was expected to appear at the trial on Tuesday as a witness for Mr. Rhodes — an unusual move that suggests Mr. Rhodes’s lawyers believe he has information that could help their case.”
He was on the stand today, he should have been on it earlier, but apparently suffered a heart attack while on the plane.
He’s not the only informant that has come out of the Oath Keepers, according to the New York Times: “Mr. McWhirter is the second known F.B.I. confidential source who was in a position to provide information to federal agents about the Oath Keepers before Jan. 6, raising questions about why investigators did not know more about the attack on the Capitol.
Near the start of Mr. Rhodes’s trial, Abdullah Rasheed, a former Oath Keeper from West Virginia, told the jury that he became alarmed by the violent language Mr. Rhodes used during a video conference with members of his group in November 2020 and provided the F.B.I. with a recording of the call.”
The police got back to Rasheed only after Jan 6th, which might be telling.
There’s another informant the FBI has that they have not revealed, a low-level member from Kansas city.
Part of Rhodes’s defense was his belief that they were going to have to go to a street war against Antifa:
“As part of his cooperation with the government, Mr. McWhirter told the F.B.I. about a nascent plot by the Oath Keepers to ambush someone affiliated with the leftist movement known as antifa in the Pacific Northwest, according to one person familiar with the matter. The F.B.I. had sought to use more aggressive investigative techniques to pursue the case but lacked the evidence to move forward, the person said.
In court on Monday, outside the presence of the jury, prosecutors at Mr. Rhodes’s trial described what appeared to be a similar plot, saying that the F.B.I. had obtained information during its investigation of the Oath Keepers that in September 2020, Mr. Rhodes discussed a plan to lure members of antifa in the Portland, Ore., area into the open and attack them.
Around the time the plot was discussed, a self-described antifa activist from the Portland area was implicated in the fatal shooting of a Trump supporter, Aaron J. Danielson, during a violent skirmish between members of a far-right group called Patriot Prayer and leftist demonstrators. The antifa activist, Michael Reinoehl, was later shot and killed by members of a U.S. marshal’s task force.”
To read the article on New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/08/nyregion/oath-keepers-trial-january-6.html