article_snippet.sent: The FBI was initially alerted to the murder plot by a confidential informant inside the Ku Klux Klan, according to an arrest affidavit.
article_snippet.sent: an arrest affidavit described a confidential informant inside the Klan as 'a confidential human source for The FBI whose motivation for cooperation with The FBI is patriotism.' a confidential informant inside the Klan was present when Driver and David Elliot Moran talked with Newcomb, identified as the KKK chapter's 'Exalted Cyclops' or leader, and recorded many of Driver and Moran conversations.
article_snippet.sent: Both Driver and Moran ... told a confidential informant inside the Klan that Driver and Moran wanted (the inmate) "six feet under,"' an arrest affidavit said.
article_snippet.sent: a confidential informant inside the Klan recorded all three men making plans to murder the inmate - ranging from shooting a confidential informant inside the Klan to injecting with a lethal dose of insulin, which Newcomb said 'would be quieter.' 
article_snippet.sent: Newcomb told (a confidential informant inside the Klan) a confidential informant inside the Klan wanted to make it as realistic as possible, but if a confidential informant inside the Klan had to go in there blazin, a confidential informant inside the Klan would do what a confidential informant inside the Klan had to do,' an arrest affidavit continued.
article_snippet.sent: a confidential informant inside the Klan first attempt to find and kill the inmate failed. '
article_snippet.sent: A vehicle with police lights was staged on the same street a block away from (the inmate's) residence and a police patrol vehicle aggressively roved the neighborhood to establish an active law enforcement response.' a confidential informant inside the Klan later recorded a conversation with Driver to confirm Driver still wanted Driver dead. '
article_snippet.sent: Okay, but do you want Driver terminated?' a confidential informant inside the Klan asked. '
article_snippet.sent: a confidential informant inside the Klan said. '
article_snippet.sent: In March, The FBI gave a confidential informant inside the Klan a burner cellphone with a doctored photograph that appeared to show the inmate had been fatally shot.
article_snippet.sent: a confidential informant inside the Klan showed all three men a doctored photograph that appeared to show the inmate had been fatally shot and recorded all three men jubilant reactions. '
article_snippet.sent: According to (the informant), Newcomb smiled upon seeing the photograph that depicted that (the inmate) had been shot and killed,' an arrest affidavit said.
article_snippet.sent: Moran,' was smiling when a confidential informant inside the Klan saw the photograph that depicted the inmate had been murdered, according to a confidential informant inside the Klan. '
article_snippet.sent: Moran also gave (a confidential informant inside the Klan an enthusiastic handshake upon seeing a doctored photograph that appeared to show the inmate had been fatally shot,' according to an arrest affidavit. '