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2021-08-30 -Lurid Crime Tales-
FBI suffers another black eye, admits it hid payments to informant in white supremacist case
[Just The News] The revelations come at a sensitive time for the FBI and Director Christopher Wray, who has insisted widespread problems revealed about the bureau's conduct in the now-discredited Russia collusion case have been fixed even as new revelations of misconduct come to light.

The FBI, already under fire for its handling of FISA warrants and confidential informants, is enduring more scrutiny as the Justice Department admits agents failed to disclose to a court that they had paid — to the tune of six figures — a white supremacist publisher for years to be an investigative source.

The admission came in a series of court filings this month in the case of Kaleb Cole, a Washington state man accused of being a member of the white supremacist group Atomwaffen and participating in an intimidation campaign against Jewish Americans and minority journalists. Cole has pleaded innocent and awaits trial.

Cole's lawyers filed a motion to suppress evidence gathered against their client on the grounds that the FBI had failed to disclose in a search warrant application that a publisher of extremist literature had been paid about $144,000 over 16 years to be an informant, including $82,000 for work in the case against Cole. The confidential informant (CI) also had an earlier felony conviction that wasn't disclosed, court records show.

The filings don't identify the informant by name but describe him as a publisher who "owns and operates a publishing company that distributes white supremacist writings."

"The CI began his long career as a professional informant in exchange for consideration regarding his sentence on a federal conviction for possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number and an unregistered silencer," Cole's lawyers argued in an Aug. 13 motion.

"The failure to include the information about the CI's incentives is made more egregious by the fact that the warrant application incriminated Mr. Cole based almost solely on the alleged observations of the CI," the lawyers added.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-08-30 03:43|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ]  Top

#1 That pesky intelligence source problem again. They really should seek professional help.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-08-30 03:53||   2021-08-30 03:53|| Front Page Top

#2 

QUESTIONS I HAVE

Given the 1000's of court system "sealed" document leaks we have seen over the years in the NEWS? What if the FBI had listed that informants name on court documents?

How were a few over zealous FBI agents able to make a career out of conducting an investigation based on data from a Media/Social Media CI source?

Since it appears a few overzealous FBI agents were able to obtain warrants without listing the information source? Did these agents deliberately mislead the court system and their district supervisors?

Shouldn't we be looking closer at the "Appointed" Federal Judges that issues these warrants also?

Should the public be demanding stricter guidelines with heavy Legal Repercussions against both Judges and anyone circumventing the legal system?

In all honesty
I want to know the results of this 16 year investigation.
What did it accomplish?
Did it save lives and property?

Posted by NN2N1 2021-08-30 06:20||   2021-08-30 06:20|| Front Page Top

#3 Property Well, there's the new house the agent in charge bought
Posted by g(r)omgoru PB 2021-08-30 06:31||   2021-08-30 06:31|| Front Page Top

#4 J. Edgar Hoover building, a hive of scum and villainy the white supremacy conspiracy in America. We've got to protect our phoney baloney jobs, boys.
Posted by Procopius2k 2021-08-30 06:49||   2021-08-30 06:49|| Front Page Top

#5 To paraphrase Keith Laumer "In J. Edgar Hoover times it was a hive of scum and villainy - and the organization deteriorated since then.".
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-08-30 08:37||   2021-08-30 08:37|| Front Page Top

#6 In no particular order, other US Government agencies and activities leading the race to the bottom include the CDC, US Postal Service, BATF, Department of Education, Department of Agriculture, Homeland Security, IRS, DoD, and DNI.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-08-30 08:41||   2021-08-30 08:41|| Front Page Top

#7 Link is 404.
Posted by Blinky Pholuling8616 2021-08-30 08:42||   2021-08-30 08:42|| Front Page Top

#8 Think I got it fixed, but here is a backup link. You may have to scroll down a bit.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-08-30 08:45||   2021-08-30 08:45|| Front Page Top

#9 Not another Feeb diddling the dog story.
Posted by JohnQC 2021-08-30 09:27||   2021-08-30 09:27|| Front Page Top

#10 #6 What have you got against the dynastic cluster fcuk that is DOE?

Keep in mind that in the event of govt 'shutdowns' they send their non-essential, their words not mine, workers home. That number is almost universally above 90% of the work force.
Posted by Cesare 2021-08-30 12:24||   2021-08-30 12:24|| Front Page Top

#11 /\ Whahahahaha.... Having done a little work at Oakridge and in the Tri-Cities of Richland, Pasco, and Kennewick, I can assure you the absence of DOE was simply an oversight.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-08-30 12:29||   2021-08-30 12:29|| Front Page Top

#12 Makes you wonder how much of Crime, Inc. is either a partnership with the FBI ala Whitey Bulger or an actual FBI-run operation like the Whitmer kidnapping plot.
"Give us some jobs for our Confidential Informants and a steady stream of expendable dupes for the prosecutors, and we can look the other way on the big stuff"
Posted by SteveS 2021-08-30 14:04||   2021-08-30 14:04|| Front Page Top

#13 How to help FBI: gouge their eyes out so as to protect them from such suffering in the future. It's for the own good, ya know.
Posted by Rex Mundi 2021-08-30 15:32||   2021-08-30 15:32|| Front Page Top

#14 Just think about the articles in a few years about how the FBI lead Antifa, BLM, Proud Boys, Jan 6 insurrection….
Posted by Airandee  2021-08-30 16:10||   2021-08-30 16:10|| Front Page Top

#15 ^ Pretty much already the established case by all we know, or was at one time. E. Tarrio of the PBs is still somewhat in question. We do know he was working with FBI but that relationship might no longer be in place and probably ended in 2018. Now that he's been sentenced, I'm thinking they've gone their separate ways.
Posted by Rex Mundi 2021-08-30 16:26||   2021-08-30 16:26|| Front Page Top

#16 Yeah, like when Ed Norton kicks his own ass in his boss' office.
Posted by swksvolFF 2021-08-30 18:57||   2021-08-30 18:57|| Front Page Top

#17 In Broadway-upon-the-Potomac
All bombs are no longer atomic:
The books've gone comic,
The system more gnomic,
Consumers -- bye boomers! -- anomic.
Posted by Thuling McGurque7901 2021-08-30 20:16||   2021-08-30 20:16|| Front Page Top

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