Truth and Lies: The Informant

Published: Feb. 6, 2023, 10 a.m.

b'Kansas resident Dan Day discovers his new friends belong to a militia group fixated on the Somali refugees in their community. That\\u2019s when he\\u2019s approached by the FBI, asking him to join the right-wing group and report on whether they\\u2019re planning violence. When the informant learns the extremists are drawing up an attack on Muslims, the investigation takes on a new urgency. Dan finds himself in the middle of a plot in which the lives of many hang in the balance\\u2026including his own.\\n\\nABC Audio\\u2019s five-part podcast, \\u201cTruth and Lies: The Informant,\\u201d takes us inside the probe of extremists in the heartland and the ordinary guy thrust into the middle of the investigation. Host Dick Lehr supplements interviews with residents, agents, and prosecutors with undercover audio tapes documenting the plans of a domestic terror attack.'