{"id":411702,"date":"2023-01-07T02:43:39","date_gmt":"2023-01-07T02:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=411702"},"modified":"2023-01-07T02:43:40","modified_gmt":"2023-01-07T02:43:40","slug":"an-fbi-informant-risks-life-to-save-immigrant-somalis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/an-fbi-informant-risks-life-to-save-immigrant-somalis\/","title":{"rendered":"An FBI Informant risks life to save immigrant Somalis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"fnmMv geuMB alqtB wqIGQ\">Kansas, (SONNA) &#8211; Longtime Kansas resident Dan Day said he&#8217;s someone who has fiercely defended the Second Amendment and the right for Americans to form militias.<\/p>\n<p class=\"fnmMv geuMB alqtB wqIGQ\">But more than six years ago, the husband and father of two risked his life to help the FBI take down members of a dangerous militia group who plotted an attack on Somali immigrants that investigators said could have eclipsed the Oklahoma City bombing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"fnmMv geuMB alqtB wqIGQ\">Day&#8217;s story will be chronicled in a new five-part ABC News podcast &#8220;Truth and Lies: The Informant,&#8221; which launches on Jan. 11 with the first two episodes.<\/p>\n<p>The series, which builds on the extensive reporting behind the 2021 ABC News Studios Hulu documentary &#8220;The Informant: Fear and Faith in the Heartland,&#8221; includes interviews with Day, the FBI agents who recruited him, prosecutors and members of the Garden City, Kansas community who were targeted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"fnmMv geuMB alqtB wqIGQ\">As a volunteer informant, Dan Day often recorded his interactions with the militia group for the FBI \u2013 and even wore a wire to some of their meetings. Those recordings will be featured in the podcast, giving listeners rare access inside the radicalization and inner workings of a domestic terror group and the unfolding bomb plot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"fnmMv geuMB alqtB wqIGQ\">Listen to the episodes:<\/p>\n<div class=\"snXP  alqtB geuMB  vABDa LKeu uJbEF \" data-testid=\"prism-grid-column\">\n<div class=\"   \" data-testid=\"prism-static-embed\">\n<div class=\" \"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/playlist.megaphone.fm\/?e=ESP2772243672&amp;sharing=false&amp;light=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"200\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"fnmMv geuMB alqtB wqIGQ\">Listen and follow &#8220;Truth and Lies: The Informant&#8221; on major listening platforms including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and the ABC News app.<\/p>\n<p class=\"fnmMv geuMB alqtB wqIGQ\">The documentary \u201cThe Informant: Fear and Faith in the Heartland\u201d is available on Hulu.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Source: ABC News<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas, (SONNA) &#8211; Longtime Kansas resident Dan Day said he&#8217;s someone who has fiercely defended the Second Amendment and the right for Americans to form militias. But more than six years ago, the husband and father of two risked his life to help the FBI take down members of a dangerous militia group who plotted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":411703,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,78],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-411702","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local","8":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":411704,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411702\/revisions\/411704"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}