30/04/2021
Patrick Flaherty shared a link.
The Bill of Rights is a relic in the eyes of the FBI; imagine if you had been Richard Jewell or Michael Flynn? Be careful out there.
From James Bovard --
Actually, the potential problem is far worse for people targeted by the feds. FBI chief Christopher Wray, who is scrambling to deliver the indictments that please his congressional overlords, says the agency is conducting 2,000 domestic terrorism investigations.
Few Americans recognize how badly the legal playing field is tilted against them.
When FBI agents knock on their doors, many Americans won’t hesitate to open up because they assume “those who have nothing to hide have nothing to fear.” But along with Bureau procedures that are a travesty of due process, the FBI is exploiting a sweeping law that criminalizes casual comments.
Federal agents have the right to lie to you and to put you in prison if you lie to them. Any citizen who makes even a single-word (“no” or “yes”) false utterance to a federal agent faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
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Anyone who still trusts the FBI system of interviewing and note-taking should recall what happened to Noor Salman, the widow of the guy who killed 49 people at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando in 2016. She was charged with material support of a foreign terrorist organization and lying to the FBI about knowing [of] her husband’s pending attack on the nightclub.
The FBI vigorously interrogated her for 18 hours without a lawyer and with no video recording, threatening her with the loss of custody of her infant son unless she signed a confession.
Salman, who reportedly had an IQ of only 84, initially denied any knowledge but relented and signed a statement composed by an FBI agent. But the fabricated confession contained numerous brazen falsehoods that destroyed the federal case. FBI conduct in that case was suffused with deceit.
Almost two years after the shooting and eleven days after Noor Salman’s trial began, the feds belatedly admitted that the killer’s father, Seddique Mateen, had been a paid FBI informant for 11 years, starting in 2005.
Read in full at the link...
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/.../will-fbi.../
On a related note...
From Tyler Durden via Glenn Greenwald --
Natasha Bertrand has spent the last five years working as a spokesperson for the alliance composed of the CIA and the Democratic Party, spreading every unvetted and unproven conspiracy theory about Russiagate that they fed her.
The more loyally she performed that propagandistic function, the more rapidly she was promoted and rewarded.
Now she arrives at her latest destination: CNN, Russiagate Central, and MSNBC, and the home to countless ex-operatives of the security state agencies on whose behalf Bertrand speaks.
Read in full at the link...
https://www.zerohedge.com/.../greenwald-cnns-new-reporter...
With no requirements to record interviews, and the potential to prosecute based on false statements, the FBI has a terrifying amount of power over citizens.
