I will leave out some details in order to protect his privacy, but he was very unhappy, and said he willl never cooperate with the FBI again. I believe it is always in your interest to tape conversations with the police. The fact that the FBI was nervous about being on camera shows that they were up to no good.
Precisely.
Thier argument is often, "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to worry about."
They convict themselves with their own words.
Screw their illegal, unconstitutional 'database'. Learn enough about the market to be able to confidently buy from private parties in areas as distant from your home as is practical using cash or barter.
Not necessarily so. I'm not in the business of being an apologist for the FBI or any other gummint agency, but FBI special agents (and police detectives or private operatives, for that matter) who work in field assignments understandably would be uncomfortable at the prospect of having their faces flashed on the local news or, perhaps, to network feeds far beyond.
Federal agents often are on the other side of the chess board from some very nasty and dangerous goblins, and such exposure could compromise investigations past, present, or future and, in the extreme, could pose a threat to the safety of an agent, his associates, or even his family.
That said, the often arrogant and unnecessarily deceptive and heavy-handed approach of agents of the FBI or other agencies by now is well-know among the living, breathing citizenry.
Sadly, these public servantsy are reaping that which they have sown -- to the detriment of all.....