The Director of the FBI said so.
If you are ever called upon to assist the FBI (or any other enforcement arm of the USG), please keep that in mind.
“If you are ever called upon to assist the FBI (or any other enforcement arm of the USG), please keep that in mind. “
I dealt with FBI agents sometimes several times a year for twenty years. My impression was that most of them were upstanding, professional, competent men. This all had to do with security and maintaining secrecy. I was never the subject of an investigation or involved in investigations.
After the Martha Stewart affair, I did some research. An FBI agent can lie to you and that’s legal. If you tell them a lie, it is a federal crime. (I believe that is why Martha went to prison. Not for insider trading.) Here’s how they nail you. Two agents interview you. One asks questions and the other takes notes. When they get back the note-taker writes up the notes in a form. That becomes the only and unimpeachable record. If he gets something wrong, or words it so that he draws a conclusion but says you said that, then either you lied then or you are lying now when you say it isn’t true. Since you can’t believe anything a federal agent from any agency says, your only option when asked about anything is to get a lawyer. Your lawyer (hopefully) will insist on recording the interview, which is not allowed by FBI rules. So, no interview, but you were 100% cooperative.