Posted on 03/09/2002 3:58:14 AM PST by DE50AE
Edited on 09/03/2002 4:50:02 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
The FBI disclosed yesterday the identity of the agent who mistakenly shot an unarmed Pasadena man last week, describing the agent as a former U.S. Marine Corps captain and decorated Persian Gulf war veteran who has worked for the past four years on a highly trained FBI SWAT team.
Special Agent Christopher Braga, 35, joined the bureau five years ago, after seven years with the Marines. In the military, he was a firearms instructor and was a rifle platoon commander during Operation Desert Storm in the early 1990s.
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
Well, I feel so much better now, knowing that these idiots are still protecting us from bank robbers and terrorists.
The consequences - unintended and otherwise - of this sort of madness will proceed with their own inexorable logic.
Maybe only in the states covered by the 9th Court of Appeals (California area ) that said Hourichi could be tried by the state of Idaho (which then declined).
The feds say that they are not accounable.
Louis Freeh said --- ". In both cases, these briefs urged the respective courts to dismiss the state criminal prosecution brought against Horiuchi by the state of Idaho, arguing that the application of state criminal law in this case would seriously undermine effective federal criminal law enforcement." [www.fbi.gov ]
Yes, the military training does produce BATTLEFIELD vs AN ENEMY ONLY "survival" INSTINCTS that may be hard to remove.
One week into the investigation the FBI has already started down that slippery slope lying to the public about what happened and FBI protocol or lack of protocol.
From Baltimore Sun March 9, 2002
Lynne A. Hunt, special agent in charge of the FBI's Baltimore office, confirmed Braga's identity to The Sun. Hunt also described Braga as a husband and father of three young children, ages 4, 3 and 8 months, saying she did not want him to be perceived publicly as a "faceless agent."
Or pick the other FBI version
From the Baltimore Sun March 7, 2002
FBI officials have refused to release the agents' names, citing an internal policy that strictly guards agents' identities in shooting incidents, in part to protect them from possible retaliation.
Hunt said releasing details about the shooting could taint continuing investigations by an independent FBI review team and by Anne Arundel police and prosecutors.
Her close personal acquaintance and political crony Lynne Battaglia,former U.S. Attorney for Maryland was under investigation by Ashcroft's DOJ in 2001 for alleged corruption.
Obviously,Lynne Hunt's FBI couldn't be trusted to investigate the former U.S. Attorney for Maryland, Lynne Battaglia ( who was probably instumental in helping Hunt obtain her job as top FBI agent in Maryland)so the DOJ had to do this investigation without Hunt's FBI involvement.
There will be some circumstance that will totally exonerate the trigger happy shooter. The unwashed citizens may rest assured that the FBI is working twenty four hours a day to spin this in some fashion that will show the shooter had no ALTERNATIVE.
Also agreed that most soldiers who enter law enforcement do the job just fine. Unfortunately, some end up confusing their "kill people and break things" training with the "bring bad guys to justice" imperative - and the consequences should cause us to reconsider such crossovers.
Through all of history, there has been the problem of what to do with soldiers not in or preparing for combat. Many can transition fine, but those who don't are a problem.
If all these agents are from the FBI field office in Annapolis, MD. their Supervisor is Dave Midura,I've had personal dealings with the FBI in Annapolis and Midura is nothing more than a political hack.
I'd love to see the young man's lawyer hold everybody accountable from the FBI agents that were present at the shooting, to their Supervisor, if it is Dave Midura and all the way up to and including Lynne A. Hunt.
A good public federal trial in this matter would go a long way in exposing FBI corruption and incompetence.
Well, let's hope not - because this guy has been involved in up to three shootings in the last two years.
When this story first broke Freepers could tell the FBI was covering up something big. My thought was that it was Ms. Hunt herself out there pulling a Christine Whitman, and maybe had a mishap.
Now it comes out that this same agent killed someone two years ago, and there is an as-yet-named agent in the same office who killed somebody else just a few months back.
The FBI nationally has just a few dozen shootings over a decade, and this one office is responsible for a serious percentage of them, with a single agent responsible for at least 2/3 of them, and maybe 100%!
This is why the FBI keeps agent identities secret in this sort of thing - to avoid retaliation.
Well, now we know, so it's time to retaliate. First thing we need is someone has to pull the plug on the budget for rent, salaries and other expenses for that Baltimore office. Maybe a Republican Representative might initiate that.
The second thing to do is take all their guns away! It's not just the shooter - it's this flaky bunch that tolerate this sort of stuff.
And folks who know how to do this really need to report this to the various credit reporting bureaus - we have some trigger happy FBI agents out there running around, and they shouldn't be treated any differently than anyone else who engages in this sort of trash.
This is a very serious point. Something very wrong is going on here.
This man blatently ignored proper agency procedure for dealing with a felony stop before the shooting incident even occured. These rules arent written just to protect the public but also the officers themselves from armed and possibly highly dangerous suspects.
Special Agent Christopher Braga, 35, joined the bureau five years ago, after seven years with the Marines. In the military, he was a firearms instructor
Okay, this doesnt really fit either.
Most people who have had some level of firearms training realize that safety is always the first priority, you never place your finger on the trigger unless intending to shoot. In the hands of any professionally trained shooter a gun simply does not go off unless you actually want it to.
The more I read about this incident, I have a growing concern that this person very well may have decided to pull the trigger ahead of time.
is deeply sorry about the coincidences that led to the shooting...
But apparently not for the victim or his family.
I dont know if anyone else noticed this, but thats another piece of the puzzle that just doesnt fit the explanations being given. He seems to be showing very little concern for the victim himself, and its evident even in a public statement given by his attorney.
Somethings amiss here. And there needs to be a very serious investigation of this incident.
Frankly, it would be foolish to give the Post credit for this story. Otherwise they'd be on the same side as a bunch of Freepers, and you know that ain't right!
It is probably more likely the case that Br'r Stone in this thread actually outed the whole gang right at the first, and that all of their home addresses, etc. are included in other court papers and could be dropped on this thread at any moment.
Ms. Hunt wants the shooter collered, not her own fat bottom.
Wow, that F.B.I. field office has a really, really good press relations office! :-/
The government's reactions and media handling of this shooting has been classic CYA spin. I wonder how much of our taxpayer dollars go into media relations for rogue federal agents who break the law, then, launch a press relations campaign to convince the general public to believe their lies. These guys/gals are good. Hmmmmm...
Thanks !!!!!!!
It was in a WarshPost article this morning. They said the FBI revealed the agent's name because the Post found out and was going to publish it anyway.
Yeah, right. Maybe, the FBI is afraid that the Boy Scouts will launch a retaliatory strike against their JBTs. ;-)
I can't tell from the article if Braga's attorney Andrew C. White is in private practice or still employed by the U.S. Attorneys Ofc.
Enclosed is a little background info. on Andrew C. White from the following web site. Transportation's Inspector General Announces Guilty Verdict for False Claims Against Government
The investigation was conducted jointly by the DOT Office of Inspector General, the Defense Criminal Investigative Service, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The DCAA auditor served as case agent during the trial. The case was prosecuted by Andrew C. White and Barbara S. Sale, Assistant United States Attorneys in the office of the United States Attorney for the District of Maryland.
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