The government response also reveals that Oregon State Police SWAT troopers at the scene, ordinarily required to wear body cameras, didn’t that day at the request of the FBI. The FBI did obtain video from FBI surveillance planes flying above the scene.
State police detectives also normally record interviews of officers who might be involved in a shooting, but they didn’t that night when questioning the FBI Hostage Rescue Team members, but they didn’t that night when questioning the FBI Hostage Rescue Team members, again at the FBI’s request. A follow-up interview with the hostage team members also came with unusual conditions, prosecutors note.
The FBI policy is not to allow recordings of its agents...
My best conclusion, is they do this so they can craft the narrative they wish, without having pesky facts interfere.
My best conclusion, is they do this so they can craft the narrative they wish, without having pesky facts interfere.
You are right and this needs to end now. Everything the FBI does needs to be required by law to be permanently recorded - field actions, witness interviews, internal communications and meetings. Everything. The FBI as it is now constituted cannot be trusted and its refusal to be open in its dealings is an affront and threat to government of, by, and for the People.
The FBI doesn’t record much of anything. When interviewed, a second agent is in the room, “taking notes”. When the report is written, the final report, the notes are destroyed. And whatever may have been in those notes, is destroyed with them.
I’ve worked and trained with the FBI. All great guys, but the ones that I was with were the lowest guys on the totem pole. The local SWAT guys who were on things like the Gang Task Forces and worked with local cops all the time. I always thought that those guys had to sacrifice their firstborn to work those assignments. I was wrong. They would tell me that supervisors would have to beg agents to get on the street. They wanted to do the office thing. Show up, turn on their computers, check email, check Facebook, move some paper from one side of the desk to the other, go to lunch, repeat the morning process and join rush hour traffic on the way home.
It appears they have been believing their own BS for a long time and think they’re above the law. Because, at the end of the day, they are the top of the heap. There’s no one to investigate them, unless they get roped into something that the locals are handling, like what is happening in Oregon.
The whole FISA-Memo shows that they and the DoJ are interconnected. Who investigates who? Fairly? Sure, if they want to get you, they’ll get you. But, if you’re in the club, then you’ll be allowed to take terminal leave(McCabe) until you hit your retirement date a month or so, down the road and you’ll be forgotten about.
That has to stop. Their notes and "recollections" are not adequate evidence.