I don’t understand why anyone would talk to the DoJ / FBI about anything.
I don’t understand why anyone would talk to the DoJ / FBI about anything.
~~~
The same reason anyone ever does, from the local police knocking on your door saying they are doing interviews for an investigation, all the way to being subpoenaed. Even if you suspect they are trying to connect you to something, two things are going to drive you to cooperate. First, if you believe you are innocent, you don’t think you’re going to incriminate yourself by cooperating. Second, people fear that they are going to cause themselves to become the focus of an investigation if they appear uncooperative. I’d imagine that if you already have a background in law, criminal justice or politics you probably feel more arrogant, more protected, or at least more capable of recognizing what you shouldn’t say. But just like has become well-discussed ever since the Mueller investigation has been debated about perjury traps, these guys are professionals and very well experienced at causing people to miss-step so that they can either put the squeeze on them or prosecute. No matter how good you think you are, their bag of tricks is designed so that you don’t see it coming until it’s too late.
As I understand it, the cost of ignoring those entities can be more expensive that most people can afford or can access. For example, I live near my families is rural Michigan. Finding a defense attorney capable of taking on DoJ/FBI would be a problem. Any ideas?