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2021-09-29 Government Corruption

Jim Bovard: He Thought I Was an Undercover Fed

[Libertarian Institute] From the early 1990s onward, I was exposing FBI crimes, lies, and cover-ups. FBI director Louis Freeh publicly denounced me after I wrote a Wall Street Journal piece on the FBI’s killing of an innocent mother holding her baby at Ruby Ridge, Idaho. I continued hammering FBI abuses in the Journal, Playboy, American Spectator, and other publications.

One of the FBI’s biggest blunders occurred when it falsely accused a hapless security guard of masterminding an explosion at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. Richard Jewell heroically saved lives by detecting and removing a pipe bomb before it exploded. But the FBI decided that Jewell had actually planted the bomb and leaked that charge to the media, which proceeded to drag Jewell’s life through the dirt for eighty-eight days. The FBI did nothing to curb the media harassment long after it recognized Jewell was innocent. I flogged the FBI’s vilification of Jewell in my 2000 book, Feeling Your Pain: The Explosion and Abuse of Government Power in the Clinton-Gore Years.

In August 2001, I took a brief vacation in the mountains of western North Carolina. My then spouse was leafing through a tourist guidebook and swooned over a chalet inn she saw that was far off the beaten path. Alas, the directions to that hideaway were not worth a plug nickel. After futilely roving that zip code for an hour, I pulled up in front of a hardware store in Whittier, a one-stoplight hamlet, to cuss and recheck the map.

I stepped out of my car and fired up a cheap cigar as I leaned against the front hood of my Ford. Ninety seconds later, a big ol’ bald guy wearing bib overalls came bounding out of the hardware store and asked in a booming voice: "What part of Maryland you from?"

"Rockville," I replied.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-09-29 03:33|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 Interesting read B. As I've said before on The Burg..guess who was Atty. Gen. during Ruby Ridge?

A: William Barr

Yup that one. Should have remembered his past and never been hired. Folks here in ID have long memories and he is persona non grata here.

Posted by Warthog 2021-09-29 05:16|| 2021-09-29 05:16|| Front Page Top

#2

1st of all The FBI CIRG still has a lot of good agents that far the few out-weight the career brown nosing ladder climbers.

While Ruby Ridge and the Olympic Bombing are both examples of why there needs to be a clear re-written Operational Scope and Mission framework issued, that DE-Politicizes the DOJ and all related Federal Agencies.

Plus an Independent IG review to shake-up and get these agencies back to doing their original mission as respected Law Enforcement and NOT politically used weapons.

Let Us Not Forget

WACO, the Atlanta Prison Riot, Fast and Furious or any of the other handful of White House politically controlled FBI/ATF/DEA/DOJ Major Screw-ups or the dozens of clear violations of US Law and the US Constitution.

BTW: After looking at the dates some of these Issues came to light.
A person might see that many happened around various White House / Congressional Incidents and helped Deflect media and Political attention.
HUMMMMM!

Posted by NN2N1 2021-09-29 09:27|| 2021-09-29 09:27|| Front Page Top

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