I will go a little further into tin foil hat territory, they may have even stumbled into an ongoing Fed investigation and are in semi-crap because of it.
This would explain some oddities about about the chain of events and timing of arrest.
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macaoidh - January 27th, 2010 at 5:51 am
If what I have been told by a source not far removed from this situation is true, then before it’s over this thing will make the ACORN tapes look like a Swedish massage.