When will MLKs file be released?
No respect!
What a disgrace the FBI is.
It is a good thing they no longer do those things.(/////S)
The 9/11 hijackers doing test runs were reported to the FBI. What was the outcome? Crickets. Then destruction.
I don't care what Aretha Franklin's political views were. It is not the government's business.
Whaaaaa? The FIB engages in such practices? I'm shocked. Shocked, I tell you.
see also: Jan. 6, 2021
So much for the Hassidic diamond merchants disguise.
FBI agents:
Dang, we don’t have tickets to the Aretha Franklin concert
Well, we can uh investigate her. At the concert.
Yeah! Undercover!
Who hasn’t been tracked by the FBI at one time or the other?
FBI has a new case, much more important: NEWS just in— Authorities Tuesday sought the public’s help to find the killer of Inglewood rapper Half Ounce, who was gunned down while walking with a friend in the Koreatown area of Los Angeles. The shooting occurred at about 11:30 p.m. Monday in the 700 block of South New Hampshire Avenue, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
Just a shame.
These worthies were after the Beatles too back in the day.
The truth is the FBI’s corruption dates back to J. Edgar Hoover’s reign.
If only the FBI was as good at it’s job, as Aretha Franklin.
For years she demanded $10,000.00 in cash before she went on stage. This guaranteed she would get at least part of her pay. I’m surprised the FBI wasn’t tracing that cash for the IRS.
We can see who the Chain of Fools really were. It pisses me off that the FBI spied on an innocent citizen for FORTY YEARS, essentially just because she was black and successful. Are they such SLOW learners — like maybe stop after ten years of finding zilch? They likely didn’t really think she had done anything criminal, but wanted material to embarrass her with if she made any sort of political stand they didn’t like.
Tied to the Black Panther Party because she has a contract with Atlantic Records? — utter nonsense. Yeah the FBI s really the world’s greatest investigative agency. How much tax money was wasted and when are they going to apologize?
40 years and no evidence?
Sounds like they were just fans and misused their office to follow her.
My experience with the FBI was mostly 1964-82. During that period they were bureaucrats who went thru the motions. As a personnel clerk, I was able to see my own file in the Army. They investigated me June 1964- Feb 1966 before drafting me.
It was a constant stream of USPS mail between Chicago, Seattle, Mississippi and Texas with a few scatttered from other places.
The first letter was from San Antonio TX. The Seargant conducting the exam asked if I would be loyal to LBJ. I answered that I had just sworn to uphold and defend the Constitution and that I would do. That was one of the triggers. Letters went to the TX border towns, to Northern and Souther Mississippi, to Chicago and Seattle. Each of those places, often both the local police and the FBI office in the same city, would respond to each request and ask for more info. The response was typically, “We have 5 inquiries about Bob.” The next round “We have 13 inquiries about Bob.” Then “We have 29 inquiries about Bob. He seems to be emerging as a target that might deserve more attention.”
At no point did they connect me to others on both the left and right with whom I had been associated in extremist activities. Not my brother. Not 2 different Puerto Rican terrorist factions. Not civil and not so civil civil rights groups. Not the John Birch Society. (I saw others files and the focus there was on JBS; But only because the target had raised it first.)
2 1/2 years of sending meaningless letters back and forth and jumping to conclusions that due to the volume of meaningless letters, I might be worth investigating.
That bureaucracy was not limited to the FBI. The ATF was equally incompetent. They were allegedly hunting for Puerto Rican Terrorist Oscar Lopez, a friend of mine, and at times an ally in an anti-Democrat Machine coalition. It was public knowledge that Oscar’s 2 brothers were Capitalists all the while supporting Puerto Rican Independence. One owned the local Hardware Store. The other owned the Texaco Gas Station. This was before Pump-your-own was legal. Oscar was pumping gas every day at his brother’s Texaco. It was no secret to anyone.
Yet the ATF was too lazy, too bureaucratic to figure that out. The agents who talked to me only talked to me because it was “routine” and they were told to do it. They were not empowered to actually investigate anything. They were just bureaucrats doing what they were told to do.
I have no meaningful contact with the FBI and ATF. But I bet most of them are just as bureaucratic. They mindlessly do what they are told; accept the premise of every order; and do no real investigation.
That’s a long time to be ‘searching evidence of espionage’ and not finding any. Not a total loss. I’m sure those FBI agents witnessed quite a number of entertaining performances.