New details released by the FBI leave very little doubt as to the identity of one of their informants in the Schaeffer Cox domestic terrorism case.

From the Alaska Dispatch:

Two confidential sources on the payroll of the FBI helped the government make its case against Fairbanks-area militia members who are accused of stockpiling illegal weapons and plotting to kill judges, Alaska State Troopers and others, according to information in federal court records unsealed Friday.

Neither source knew the other one was working with investigators, but both began assisting in the investigation last June, according to affidavits filed with the court in order to obtain search warrants earlier this month.

One is described as a convicted felon facing new fraud charges who agreed to cooperate in hopes of getting the charges reduced. That informant was an insider, promoted in February to the command staff of the Alaska Peacekeepers Militia headed by Fairbanks resident Schaeffer Cox, one of those arrested on numerous federal and state charges.

The other is a person with no criminal record but in the affidavit is said to be someone who the defendants approached to buy grenades, silencers and other weapons because he was thought to "be in a position to produce possible weaponry." Some in the militia community have speculated that the weapons supplier might be William Fulton, former owner of the Drop Zone military surplus store on Spenard Road. He abruptly signed over his store to an employee and disappeared a few days after the Fairbanks arrests. Nothing in the affidavit gives any information about Fulton, whether he may be connected to the case, or why he might have vanished.

The affidavit says both sources were compensated for their assistance and will continue to be paid. Conversations between the sources and the defendants were audio or video taped with the consent of the informants.

I have mentioned before that the evidence seems to point to the fact that Bill Fulton is the Anchorage supplier who Cox came to for the items he wanted in order to kidnap and possibly kill State Trooper and a local judge.  In the beginning I thought possibly that Fulton handed his business over and went underground out of fear that he was possibly going to be arrested next.

However now with some time having passed that scenario seems much less likely since, at the very least, Fulton would have popped up on the militia message boards to let his pals know that he was on the lam from the Feds, as that would have made him a hero in their eyes.  He has not done so, which definitely makes it far more likely that he is the Anchorage weapons supplier identified in the indictments.

Now did you notice WHEN the FBI started working with this informant?

The relationship began in June of last year.  So if it is Fulton (And let's be honest, who else could it be?), that means he was already working for the Feds when Joe Miller hired him, and his Drop Zone goons, to manhandle the local press. (You know we kind of wondered why the Anchorage Police did not arrest Fulton that day.)

So it is an almost certainty that Fulton was working for failed Senate candidate Joe Miller at the SAME TIME that he was on the FBI payroll.  Well isn't that interesting?

Miller's connection to the Alaska militias has been well established, so it stands to reason that if the FBI had a man as close to Miller as Fulton was that they might have done a little information gathering on our local Teabagging Senate candidate at the same time they were building their case against Schaeffer and his militia buddies. Don'tcha think?

I have to imagine that right about now Joe Miller is sitting in a pool of his own sweat, pulling on his sorry excuse for a beard, and trying to remember exactly what he might have said while in the company of his old buddy "Drop Zone Bill" and whether or not he is on his way to a Federal Penitentiary right along with his other old buddy Frances "Schaeffer" Cox.

By the way I have learned recently that the Federal part of Cox's court case will be held in Anchorage, so you can count on some first hand reporting from your old buddy Gryphen during the trial. Oh this ought to be fun!