If the FBI questioned me for several hours over several days, I am sure they could get me on this charge too.
This what the guy in the “never talk to cops” video advises. He uses examples of how talking to them can get you in trouble. The worst is when they “misremember” what you said, intentionally or accidentally. But they can’t missremember what you don’t say.
And all the notes are destroyed once the report it written, so there’s no way to compare what was ‘noted’ to what is written in the final report.
The FBI is not the organization, that the people have been led to believe they are. They stack the deck so far in their favor, when it comes to investigations, that it’s hard NOT to get charged by them. And that is the leverage they use against, pretty much everyone, they’ll get you for something. Even if it’s lying to them during an interview.
Any time you get interviewed by someone from the Feds, after they ID themselves, they advise you that you can be prosecuted under 18USC1001.
If real cops had those rules, you couldn’t build enough jails/prisons.
The lesson is, don’t talk to them at all—I believe once you ask for a lawyer, their questions have to stop.
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That’s exactly the lesson. And the only thing you should say to them is I want a lawyer.