>On March 8, 1971, a group known only as the Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI staged a burglary of an FBI field office in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. The group stole over 1,000 classified documents and sent them anonymously through the mail to a number of newspapers, exposing assorted illegal and surreptitious FBI activities. Some news outlets were loathe to run them, claiming that they did not want to blow the whistle on ongoing FBI operations and potentially endanger the lives of agents or informants, but the Washington Post, after confirming the documents' authenticity, ran them in a front page story on March 24. Among the items revealed was the existence of COINTELPRO.>According to Noam Chomsky, the largest portion of the FBI documents discussed political surveillance, mainly of left wing or anti-Vietnam War groups. Some discussed draft dodging, some on organized crime, mainly gambling operations, and about 15% on garden variety criminal activities. As a result of this exposure, COINTELPRO was discontinued and Congress held the Church Hearings which dealt with various acts of malfeasance by the FBI and CIA over the preceding 25 years.
>The FBI office was cased to know when its working hours were and the break-in was performed on the day of the Muhammed Ali-Joe Frazier "Fight of the Century" on the hope that the building manager would be listening to the fight on his radio. Ali himself had been monitored by the FBI for his antiwar activities and involvement with the Nation of Islam.>Some 200 FBI agents investigated the break-in but had no luck and officially closed the case in March 1976, when the five year statute of limitations had run out. Although several of the suspected burglars were questioned, the FBI had no luck in getting them to talk or cooperate. They had a composite sketch of one of the burglars (Bonnie Raines) but she was never suspected or questioned. Judi Feingold went into hiding and was not seen again until 2014, and the leader of the burglars, Bill Davidon, was not questioned because he was an unindicted co-conspirator in the unrelated Harrisburg Seven case. Several of the burglars revealed their identities and agreed to be interviewed in the 2010s.
>>18618371L. Ron Hubbard sends his regards o algo.
Heroes, one and all
>>18618372a rogue FBI agent leaked those dox. that shit was deliberate, bro.
>>18618372>Although several of the suspected burglars were questioned, the FBI had no luck in getting them to talk or cooperate.if questioned by Feds, say one of three things.>"I will not discuss that without my lawyer present.">"I have no comment on that.">"I don't remember." (this one is Hillary Clinton's favorite tactic and is essentially a legal cheat code since it's not a crime to forget things and they can't prove you didn't forget)
>>18618392Ronald Reagan said "I don't remember" about 50x during the Iran-Contra hearings.
>>18618392another important point. state and local police began using videotaped interrogations since the 80s but the FBI continued just having a guy write down the interrogation and whatever vaguely worded, impressionistic stuff he said was then presented at trial as valid evidence. during the War on Terror era they did start taping some interrogations as it became necessary when questioning terrorism suspects, but mostly it's still just written down.
>>18618414the FBI are for the most part grossly inept at investigations as the OP story shows and in 80% of cases they rely on a suspect to fill in the blanks or lie to them so they can charge them with lying to a Federal official. law enforcement in general tends to rely on the suspect talking, but it's much worse with the FBI as they're not hardened street cops but wimpy college kids. as for instance, Martha Stewart was convicted of lying to them, not insider trading as people often think. that was the only thing they could actually get her on.
>>18618371it was as a result of the Church hearings that the CIA was banned from operating on US soil
>>18618392if they're questioning you it means they have no actual evidence and are trying to get you to say something incriminating. don't let them have it.
>>18618392Bill Gates did that during the M$ monopoly Congressional hearings in the 90s. "I have no comment on that" and "I don't recall." were his answers to every question.
>>18618414>>18618421I was listening to an interview with Robert Young Pelton, the war correspondent, and the FBI approached him after he went to Chechya (during the second Chechen war, via the Georgian border) when Russia was besieging Grozny. These FBI guys wanted to ask him questions about these Chechen militants / terrorists he met, and he's like read my damn book. They said noooo we wanna talk to uuuuu. He said read my damn book. They said but we wanna taaaalk. He said fine, and let them interview him. Then a year later some other FBI guys come back and are like "so tell us more about meeting with... [notorious Chechen terrorist]" and he's like I didn't say I *met* him, I *tried* to meet him but he was in a bunker and wasn't unavailable, can you just give me the stuff that those agents wrote and let me rewrite it for you because I can promise you they got it all wrong because they're idiots.
