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Bush, Ashcroft imitate Clinton, Reno in blocking probe of Boston FBI
Manchester, NH Union Leader ^ | January 22, 2002 | Robert Novak

Posted on 01/22/2002 3:53:43 AM PST by RJCogburn

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To: Clarity
"He can waive the privilege anytime he wants to "

And if he does so too freely he will lose their open and honest input.

41 posted on 01/22/2002 1:44:49 PM PST by mrsmith
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To: Clarity
Well boo hiss! I expect more than a big belly laugh from you Mister! :) I want solid criticism I can refute, or bow to.

But still, I'm rethinking my position.

It's not I think the FBI incapable of doing two things at once, it's that I question the wisdom of internal navel gazing, finger pointing, and clownish congressional grandstanding right now.

I think this 30 year old case of FBI abuse/corruption, etc., like the one Attorney Dunn is instigating for his Egyptian client (the student who didn't really have a pilot's radio in his hotel room on Sept 11), should be fought in a court of law, NOT in congress.

Believe me, I'm struggling not to blindly support Bush/Ashcroft. They will make mistakes, I know that...but their motive here is not CYA..it's what they think best for the country. The second I think they are acting to cover up their own illegal acts is the minute I get off the Bush/Cheney train.

Back to the Egyptian guy. The FBI got him to confess the pilot's radio was his. A lie. Now Dunn, one sharp lawyer, is asking the judge to investigate how the FBI coerced a confession from the kid. It's gonna be hell to pay if the judge finds the FBI did illegally charge him, and Johnny Walker's lawyer uses that information to accuse the FBI of the same tactics in getting Walker to talk.

So....I'm not nearly as concerned about 30 year old FBI misdeeds,as I am the present. And I don't want Dan Burton's committee investigating either one.

42 posted on 01/22/2002 2:02:03 PM PST by YaYa123
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Funny MR Salvatore is still alived, as of yesterday and I am sure that he doesn't consider the corruption of the FBI 30 years ago in the long past.

Now the families of the two other convicted with the perjured testimony that died might consider it long past.

However, the FBI agent who helped pull this off, about summed it up. Whatcha want me to do cry.

Me I want him under the jail.

I want the FBI Cleaned up and its power curtailed.

I don't want them holidng anymore Bar B Ques for a long time.

43 posted on 01/22/2002 2:33:13 PM PST by dts32041
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To: Clarity
Former FBI Special Agent John Connolly - the agent in charge of the informants from 1975 to the early 1990s - is awaiting trial on charges that range from bribery to the possibility that information he supplied to Bulger led to the deaths of other FBI informants.

Seems there is already a strong disincentive against corrupt "input".

Unless a larger problem is evidenced from his trial, and/or the civil suits by others wrongly imprisoned, where is the unpunished corruption?

46 posted on 01/22/2002 6:08:51 PM PST by mrsmith
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Without some evidence of further corruption, what is Burton's reason for looking for it?
The known problem, so far, has been addressed.

The Executive doesn't have fourth amendment protections, but if not a "probable cause" standard, it needs better protection from the Congress than "because we want to".

48 posted on 01/22/2002 6:26:42 PM PST by mrsmith
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White House OKs access to mob files from Hub FBI

"The lawyers can read the documents kept in Justice Department files but cannot make copies."

50 posted on 03/09/2002 6:26:38 AM PST by mrsmith
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