An FBI agent who led the investigation of nine Michigan militia members charged with trying to launch war against the federal government couldn’t recall many details of the two-year probe yesterday during questioning by defense lawyers.
Even the judge who must decide whether to release the nine until trial was puzzled.
“I share the frustrations of the defense team … that she doesn’t know anything,” U.S. District Judge Victoria Roberts said after agent Leslie Larsen confessed she hadn’t reviewed her notes recently and couldn’t remember specific details of the case.
Judge Roberts is hearing an appeal of another judge’s order that has kept members of so-called Hutaree militia in jail since their arrest in late March.
Wow, those guys sure must be dangerous, huh? The Feds are all over ’em!
As Glenn Reynolds points out: “Well, they got the headlines they wanted after the arrest, anyway.” Yep, it was good for the narrative of “Look, those crazy militias are back! Just like the Clinton years!” Somehow, the fact that there are more stories about these losers during Democratic administrations than during Republican ones is supposed to be evidence that there’s more of a threat. Maybe. Or maybe there are just more stories about them.