An important part of the Fast & Furious debacle was the willingness of the FBI to compromise the Instant Background Check system:
For the plan to succeed in the goal of assuring that criminals got guns, they had to make sure warning flags were digitally overcome. In that way, they could make sure the high-powered guns went to super bad folks (murdering narco King Pins), instead of good folks.
You paid for that.
The shootout in the desert, where the poor Border Patrol got killed —how did the bad guys know to intercept them at exactly that place, to pull a rip-off?
Because the FBI TOLD them they’d be there, right then.
Almost forgot —the FBI also made sure the 3rd gun (maybe the murder weapon) disappeared. Cuz it belonged to their guy.
This is totally aside from years earlier burning down a church they knew was full of people. And, uh...shooting in the head a lady they knew was carrying a baby.
That stuff, yeah.
Lessay we went back in time 30 years and I walked up to you and foretold that stuff to you —wouldn’t you call an ambulance for me? You’d consider it fanciful, you’d think me nuts.
FORGOT:
They also tried to trick Richard Jewell into making a confession video:
He was just a star-struck, lowly security guard who regarded the FBI guys as demi-Gods.
They had him in there for questioning and said, “OK Dick you’re clear, we’re all good here..” And then they kicked back, and buddied up to him, “talking shop”.
And then, after they’d built up a rapport they mentioned —almost like it was an afterthought— “Say, Dick, we’re doing a training, here, we gotta make a video for training purposes of some schmuck confessing to a bombing...Can you help us out, here....?”
And the fat dummy came within a whisker of DOING IT before he realized he was being set up; he’d called his ex-college roomate (who’d become a lawyer and whom he hadn’t seen in over a dozen years) who told him to GET THE HELL OUT OF THERE.
They were going to KNOWINGLY pin it on an INNOCENT GUY.
THINK ABOUT THAT.