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Anakin was a "victim" of a vast conspiracy theory created and implemented by a SITH Dark Lord... Do you see such a vast conspiracy going on behind the scene of real life?
-- Kiss of the Sith
Posted on 05/31/2002 8:55:13 AM PDT by Kermit
The destruction of the once great institution of the FBI began with the election of Bill Clinton in 1992.
During the Clinton years, the FBI became a political tool and servant of the Clinton White House.
Case in point: the Clinton pardongate scandal. In August 2000, the Atlanta field office of the FBI sent a memo to bureau headquarters in Washington. In that memo was information supplied by an informant regarded as reliable by local FBI agents.
According to the source, arrangements were being made to have then-President Clinton pardon two international fugitives, Marc Rich and Pinky Green. The pardon, the source told agents, would be granted in the final hours of the Clinton administration. Along with that tip were "detailed allegations of financial payoffs to ensure the presidential actions," wrote investigative reporter and editor Paul Rodriguez, who broke the story in Insight magazine.
"At the time the FBI received this information in mid-August 2000, Rich and Green were well known to the bureau as indicted tax cheats and lavishly rich fugitives on the lam. Rich's ex-wife was a close friend of Clinton and a big-time contributor and fund-raiser for Democrats. But even to casual observers the two fugitives were not plausible candidates for presidential pardons," Rodriguez wrote.
"In Washington, the bureau simply sat on this explosive tip, which included the allegation that millions of dollars were alleged to be deposited in secret bank accounts for Clinton and others identified as involved in securing the pardons."
As NewsMax.com reported on Sept. 5, 2001, even after the actual pardons were granted on Clinton's last day in the White House, just as the informant had reported, the FBI failed to act on the explosive report. In fact, it wasn't until March, some two months later, that the bureau admitted the existence of the memo, and then only because the courageous agent who had written the memo refused to allow its cover-up to go unchallenged.
To this day, the bureau continues to stonewall on the matter, frustrating the efforts of congressional investigators to probe the buried scandal, Rodriguez told NewsMax.com.
As shocking as it is, this was simply another instance of the bureau covering up information and activities apparently deemed damaging to President Clinton and his administration.
In case after case, the bureau's prestige as the world's most efficient crime-fighting agency was trotted out to bestow official credence to stories cooked up to justify the Clinton administration's version of controversial incidents – versions that strain the credulity of even the most naïve observers.
In the end, the bureau's prestige as a reliable investigative agency whose word could be taken as Gospel truth has vanished into the same black hole into which any information inconvenient to the Clinton administration also vanished.
Here is part of the sorry record of a once valued crime-fighting agency.
The Downing of TWA 800
One NTSB investigator complained that "overbearing" FBI agents "immediately took control, and hampered a lot of things we did." NTSB officials portrayed the FBI as "aggressive beyond propriety" and described an atmosphere of suspicion and distrust, believing that the FBI routinely withheld crucial information.
Then there is the matter of the death of Vincent Foster on July 20, 1993. His death was quickly ruled a suicide by U.S. Park Police and, later, the FBI and two Special Counsel reports.
But few people remember that the controversy over Foster's death began on July 19, the day before, when President Clinton abruptly fired then-FBI Director William Sessions. Sessions would later say he was fired because he tried to stop the politicization of the FBI.
Though the high-ranking death should have meant FBI involvement, the White House ordered the FBI out of the death investigation and the inquiry into what happened in Foster's White House office. Later, the FBI was used by the Independent Counsel investigations to rubber-stamp the Park Police inquiry.
After years of investigation and the altering of key forensic evidence, the FBI was able to claim that Vince Foster had driven to Fort Marcy Park and shot himself there.
Veteran homicide detective Mark Fuhrman told Details magazine: "If he killed himself, he didn't do it there. If he committed suicide, then someone moved him to Fort Marcy Park.
"Someone tried to stage a crime scene that is not believable in the least, and to make it work they gave it to an investigative body like the Park Police who can be ordered around and bullied," Fuhrman told Details.
But the facts didn't add up. As Christopher Ruddy noted in "The Strange Death of Vincent Foster," it was difficult to believe that Foster, a man who showed no signs of depression, did not leave a suicide note; killed himself in the back of an old park (original microscopic inspection found no evidence of grass stains or dust on his shoes); shot himself with a 1913 handgun that he didn't own and that left little evidence of blood loss and no spent bullet; and managed to neatly arrange his body, with gun in hand, after he shot himself.
Also, a key eyewitness, who came on the Fort Marcy Park scene before the discovery of Foster's body reported that Foster's car was not in the parking lot at the time. The witness would later claim that FBI agents doctored his testimony to make it less suspicious. He sued the FBI after suffering harassment before testifying at a grand jury.
Another witness, Arkansas State Trooper Larry Patterson, testified that FBI agents badgered him to change his story – that he had learned of Foster's death before the body was found in Fort Marcy Park.
The Waco Affair
On Aug. 22, 1992, on a remote ridge in northern Idaho, a weeklong standoff between white separatist Randy Weaver and federal agents ended in a shootout in which an FBI sniper shot and killed Weaver's wife, Vicky. The Ruby Ridge confrontation began a week earlier, when federal marshals tried to arrest Weaver for failing to appear in court on minor weapons charges.
It was later shown that Weaver's failure to appear was the result of a goof-up by the court. When heavily armed authorities arrived, a gun battle broke out between marshals and Weaver's 14-year-old son, resulting in the deaths of the boy and a U.S. marshal.
Politicization of the FBI
The outright politicization of the FBI began with the firing of then-FBI director William Sessions. In a written statement to Chris Ruddy soon after the death of Vincent Foster, Sessions explained the reason he was fired: "… at the time I left the Bureau [I stated] that I would not be part of politicizing the FBI from within or without."
Sessions was replaced by Louis Freeh, who for the next eight years danced to the tune played by Bill Clinton, using the FBI as a tool to cover up the scandals of the Clinton administration.
Responding to national concern over the lack of FBI accountability, Sens. Richard J. Durbin, D-Ill., and Arlen Specter, R-Pa., charged that the FBI had mishandled and misbehaved in a series of public scandals, including Ruby Ridge, Waco, spies, crime-lab evidence fabrication, withholding documents and imprisoning innocent men on false charges in order to protect "sources."
Wrote columnist Paul Craig Roberts: "These scandals have cost the FBI credibility with the public. The two senators are trying to refurbish the FBI's image with an inspector general."
They persuaded a friend of his to have dinner with him while wearing a wire to record all of Jewell's private conversation. They tried to trick him into waiving his rights. And they apparently leaked their suspicions to the press, stigmatizing him brutally through public accusations and innuendoes, without ever arresting or indicting him. In the end, the bureau had to write him a letter fully exonerating him of having any connection with the bombing.
The real truth about TWA 800, the death of Vince Foster, the vanishing memo about the Marc Rich pardon and the facts about Waco and Ruby Ridge must be told, no matter who gets hurt. Let the chips fall where they may.
When Director Mueller was first appointed to his job, NewsMax.com called on him in an open letter to do just that. To date he has not.
At the time, NewsMax charged that "the FBI has become an agency that views its principal function as being the guardian of the federal government. And its principal weapon in protecting the interests of the government and its top executives has been the cover-up. These are the earmarks of a police state. A police agency that allows itself to become the servant of government becomes an enemy of the public it is sworn to serve and protect.
"Whatever else is wrong with the bureau – investigative sloppiness, corruption among its top executives and agents, even betrayal of country – all of this and more is a side effect of the agency's willingness to prostitute itself to protect corrupt officials of the federal government. That's where the rot began. If you really want to reform the FBI, that's where you have to start," NewsMax editorialized.
Ditto on that request today.
See also Clinton's actions in Arkansas immediately after taking office as governor there, and the still-unsolved sniper murder of Little Rock UPI statehouse bureau reporter Judy Daniaelak a few months after the rape of Juanita Broderick by then-Arkansas Attorney General Clinton. Little Rock and Arkansas State Police stepped all over themselves in the scramble to claim the shooting was a *random event* or accident.
She was shot with a pistol, likely from a car moving alongside hers on a North Little Rock highway. And the caliber was consistent with those used by Arkansas State Police at the time.
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Why is kidnapping a federal crime? Because Hoover couldn't bear to see all the print on the Lindberg kidnapping, and none of it coming his way.
NewsMax has to realize that Mueller only took office on Sep 05, 2001, a mere 6 days before the attacks. I am sure, especially given his recent unwarranted a$$ reaming by the leftist media for not being clairvoyant and knowing facts that he was not provided until recently, that he has been extremely busy reviewing his "troops" actions, or inactions, as the case may be.
As they say, "to everything there is a season"...this is the season for Mueller to review the FBI's ineptness at handling the info on the terrorist attacks, and devise ways to correct the problems, not to dig up old cases to review strictly for the satisfaction of NewsMax and their subscribers. Only when we are sure that the FBI is reorganized and functioning properly (after the 8 years of corruption as cited in the article) and can protect the American people in the future, should we take a look at past cases. Why the folks at NewsMax can't realize this simple logic is beyond me.
And it didn't begin with Bill Clinton. Is there a treatment for aggrevated Clinton-itis? Some people need some bad. Their vision is impaired by gazing always at the Clinton years--which are in fact seamlessly attached to the years before and after.
The facts here have been long known by FR readers.
Why do you think we held a March for Justice in 1998?
It wasn't about Monica Lewinsky. It was about high crimes and misdemeanors by Clinton. Treasonous crimes.
Clinton thinks he got away with them all.
May God let it be that finally, now that the FBI debacle has come to light, that some within that agency who know the worst truths about the CLinton crimes - will come forward to redeem themselves - and to put the blame squarely where this writer puts it for what has happened to the FBI and to our country.
I believe Hillary Clinton and the DNC operatives KNEW the S. was about to H.T.F, and did a pre-emptive strike with her and her fellow terrorists in the DNC marching in lockstep attack on President Bush for having known about September 11th before it happened and for failing to stop it.
I believe this attempt to tarnish the President with charges of actions she and her fellow Clintonistas DID COMMIT (preknowledge of the Sept. 11th plans) was intended to protect herself and X42 from the scrutiny that should start flying their way with the FBI "disintegration" evidence which is now coming into public view.
The next thing that will happen is that the DNC will come forward and say, all this needs to stop because we need the FBI. The Bush admimistration will say the same thing.
But I for one hope the "whistleblowers" - the legitimate ones (because there will be fake ones who still work for the Clintons) - will be given the freedom to report what they know to Congress and/or whatever outlet is set up for them.
Message to the Clintonista traitors: NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO, THE TRUTH WILL ALWAYS FIND YOU OUT - EVENTUALLY!
Hoover's FBI was a more accurate reflection of the fears of the average American than the "new and improved" FBI. The average American loathed atheistic commies and their red-diaper babies. They loathed foreigners who came here to tell them that they were at the proper state of industiral evolution for a dictatorship of the proles.
The behavior of FBI agents was more in keeping with middle class Americans' notions of proper comportment. I happened to hear a sort of running commentary from an elderly, long-retired agent living on a Maine Island at the time of the Waco massacre. My outrage and disbelief were AS NOTHING compared to his. Whether one thinks Julius and Ethel Rosenberg deserved the death penalty or not, the fact is they were granted due process. The men who arrested them were dressed in suits, not Ninja costumes. They did not drive tanks and wield flamethrowers. There are levels of vileness. Or, perhaps you think I'm being too fine in my lines here.
In all the tales of Hoover's "blackmail" of "great" leaders from FDR to LBJ, no one seems to consider the other side of the equation---the contempt Hoover must have had for these men and their craven unwillingness to confront him; as well as their venal habit of using him against their enemies. In a strange sort of, admittedly byzantine, way Hoover was more of a representativeof middle-class whitey than the elected versions.
The FBI, more than being merely politicized, has been drafted into the Class War between average (read:"white", "middle-class" or "red-neck") Americans and their globalist masters. The FBI is now wholly a creature of Imperial Washington DC. It can shoot the eye out of a mother holding her baby in a remote cabin in Idaho, but it can't isssue a search warrant for murderous Saudi jihadists.
Many people would gladly take Hoover's giant ego over the squriming little careerists and multi-culturalists who preside personally over the mass murder of infants and mothers or watch with palms sweating as foreigners slaughter us en masse
And so forth, and so on.....
It was merciless in it's criticism of the FBI, especially the DC crime-lab which managed to get itself cited for contempt of court a number of times for losing or destroying evidence.
Much of the testimony of the agents involved was "redacted" under the Garrity ruling. As I understand it, Garrity says "Yes, you must testify against yourself in this administrative hearing, but we won't print your testimony so that nobody will know what you did."
Exactly. And the FBI said nothing as it was turned into a politicized garbage scowl for Clinton.
I think that you miss the point entirely. As long as the criminal behavior of the FBI is ignored, those in leadership positions will be immune to any serious efforts at reform.
After all, they're the ones with inside knowledge concerning the criminal behavior of the government. This serves to make them bulletproof - and a far greater threat to national security because they can be blackmailed.
And your observations, Kermit:
The first thing Clinton did upon taking office was to fire all the US Attorneys. The second thing he did was use the FBI to frame Billy Dale and then on July 19, 1993, Clinton fired FBI Director William Sessions, the first time a FBI Director was fired. When you're planning a crime wave, you get rid of the cops. The day after firing Sessions, Vince Foster was murdered.
are right on the money (with very few in the mainstream media ever managing to connect the dots. They're not actually too ignorant to do so….simply unwilling.)
Like this guy?
Anakin was a "victim" of a vast conspiracy theory created and implemented by a SITH Dark Lord... Do you see such a vast conspiracy going on behind the scene of real life?
-- Kiss of the Sith
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