The decency of the FBI (never thought you'd read that phrase, right?) toward the sons/brothers amazes me. If I got caught up in something like this I would fully expect the FBI to make my life hell and escalate the situation possibly resulting in bullet holes in members of my family. I guess times were different back then or maybe you get treated nicer when you have information they want.
Why is it that I can't even read the first sentence before being pestered with a "sign up for our..." May I have some time to evaluate you offering so I can make an informed choice?
For years now I have had a policy of instantly closing any tab which treats me that way. I don't even close/cancel the overlay, I just close the tab and leave.
I'm interested in the Atavist Magazine itself. An evolution of the magazine industry. From its About-Us, it looks like it's a side project for its editors. Given the labor put into this article, Atavist appears to pay traditional investigative-journalism fees for its stories. Supported by subscription.
I disagree. It is exceedingly long, and there was no indication about what it was even going to be about. I wasn't able to decide if it was worth investing all of the time required to read it, so I decided not to.
Clearly this was a more capable, less political version of the FBI than the one we experience today. Although I laugh at how incompetently they solved the problem with the bomb! At least they tried.
I have a hard time reconciling how badly Obama's DOJ and FBI have screwed our country:
Now, almost every crime is manufactured into existence by the government itself--like the "Draw Mohammed" contest in TX where the agent handling the perpetrators veered off at that last minute, leaving everyone there in the gun sights of two shitheads who were luckily taken down by a better man. We only got to find out because the cops nabbed the agent and he had to id himself near the scene! It's not like the FBI cared about the outcome there, like Birges, they probably wanted a big body count because that's how you get new gun control laws passed and bigger budgets.
Then there's Fast & Furious, which, although an ATF operation, probably also involved DEA and FBI agents. The corruption...
Dare I even mention the whole bullshit entrapment case against Trump and how the FBI infiltrated the campaign? Here we have serious crimes being committed by agents of our own government. All will be covered up, probably.
How many major crimes in the US had an FBI agent provocateur working behind the scenes to make them real crimes? Is today's FBI any better than the KGB was in the USSR?
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https://www.damninteresting.com/the-zero-armed-bandit/
Someone else in this thread posted this article, which does it right. There's a one-liner summary at the top and everything: https://www.damninteresting.com/the-zero-armed-bandit/
I have a hard time reconciling how badly Obama's DOJ and FBI have screwed our country:
Now, almost every crime is manufactured into existence by the government itself--like the "Draw Mohammed" contest in TX where the agent handling the perpetrators veered off at that last minute, leaving everyone there in the gun sights of two shitheads who were luckily taken down by a better man. We only got to find out because the cops nabbed the agent and he had to id himself near the scene! It's not like the FBI cared about the outcome there, like Birges, they probably wanted a big body count because that's how you get new gun control laws passed and bigger budgets.
Then there's Fast & Furious, which, although an ATF operation, probably also involved DEA and FBI agents. The corruption...
Dare I even mention the whole bullshit entrapment case against Trump and how the FBI infiltrated the campaign? Here we have serious crimes being committed by agents of our own government. All will be covered up, probably.
How many major crimes in the US had an FBI agent provocateur working behind the scenes to make them real crimes? Is today's FBI any better than the KGB was in the USSR?