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The More Things Change…

Started by TLF · 10 months ago

I’m boning up on the history of the FBI, reading Athan Theoharis’s The FBI and American Democracy. So far, I’ve gotten from the FBI’s inception (100 years ago this month) to midcentury. The most remarkable thing about it is how familiar it all ... Continue reading »

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  • This is why we need real law-and-order US Attorneys. When my dad was a treasury agent, he got a number of people busted because he found a US Attorney who was a no-nonsense guy on enforcing federal law related to wiretapping abuses, and turned over the evidence needed to prosecute some of his colleagues for running a dragnet. The US Attorney was all over those guys like white on rice when he got that information, and most of them went to prison.

    The problem is that most "law-and-order" people actually believe that "law-and-order" applies to the people only, unless government agents really embarrass the government.

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