I may seem paranoid but I agree with tagej, the FBI has a horrible record of monitoring those that pose no real threat (can you say ?John Lennon? boys ?n girls). In addition they have an EVEN worse record of sloppy investigation techniques and leaking inaccurate and patently FALSE information to the press to justify the evil they do.
Some examples over the last few years:
1. Richard Jewell ? This guy actually saved several lives at the 1996 Olympics by reporting a suspicious package that turned out to contain a bomb. The FBI, due to nothing other than sheer incompetence and laziness, tries to frame him by lying to him that they are making a training video and then the FBI turns around and attempts to sell it as a confession.
2. Randy Weaver -- The Feds shoot his 14 year old son in the back and his wife (while holding their baby ? I am sure she was a real threat) all based on charges that the FBI had cooked up by using a sting operation that involved FBI informants getting him to buy them mail order firearms (that he initially refused to do until they worked on him for several weeks). Not one of the Federal agents is prosecuted (or even investigated) for murder.
3. Branch Dividians -- (David Koresh and Co.) Were into some seriously weird stuff that most of us would have no part of. What does the government do? Being that David K. had a habit of jogging (unarmed) into town every few days (he could have been picked up without incident) where he would have made an EASY arrest target. What does the government do? They take a paranoid extremist religious sect (that is already preaching that the government is after them- humm? maybe they were on to something) and storm the compound in board daylight and then find it a total mystery when they shoot back. During the standoff that Uber Authoritarian herself, Janet Reno, goes on TV and lies by stating that they also have reports of child abuse (we?re doing it for the children). When cornered several months later about that report she actually admits that was ?bad? information. Oh well, just a bunch of Religious extremist (by the way, almost all of those children died) who will miss them?
4. Wen Ho Lee ? (of Los Alamos fame) The Cox Report painted this guy as the worst thing to come down the pike since the Rosenbergs. Upon further research, harsher assessments came from (Chris) Cox's own Republican Party. Former deputy assistant Secretary of the Army, Dr. James Prather, after studying the report observed, "You've been had, Chris. Now just admit it." Dr. Lee is now cooling his heels in solitary confinement 23 hours a day. He does get a weekly one-hour visit from his family. Federal Judge, Jude Wanniski, advisor to former Republican vice presidential candidate Jack Kemp, who authorized Prather's study, added, "We know that Bill Richardson is ready to destroy the life of the Chinese American computer scientist Wen Ho Lee and several Los Alamos scientists." Wanniski went on, "If you have the right stuff, Chris, you would come clean now before your nose gets any longer, and tell Bill Richardson he does not have to put Wen Ho Lee in the slammer after all."
It also comes to light that the ?classified? data he is accused of mishandling (he is not even any longer accused of having given ANYTHING to the Chinese) was actually NOT classified at the time it was on his computer! It was only classified LATER. It remained on an unsecured area of his computer because NO ONE told him the data?s classification had been changed.
I could go on and on but those are the four that I know most of you have heard of.
I am sure that this post alone will get the ?carnivore? looking my way.
Jimbo
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