alan
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This article might appear in your local paper, and it might prove worth reading, with respect to recent proposals to broaden the powers/authority of The FBI.
Two survivors and the families of a couple of men that died in prison have filed suit against the government seeking, according to the article, as much as $100,000,000 in damages. Interestingly, if there is any monetary award, it will come out of the pockets of the taxpayers, and not from the FBI's "lunch money", or from penalties against any former FBI types, who played a part of this fiasco, and who might still be alive, likely since retired on their government pensions.
One thing about this entire business strikes me as sort of interesting, that being the following. If, at the time, back in the 1960's, one had asked the FBI if they would be a party to such questionable activity, their answer would have been, likely in a horrified tone, CERTAINLY NOT. Some might have believed them too.
Today, if the FBI were asked whether or not they would ever act in a similar manner, especially with respect to the aditional broadened powers they seek and or have been offered, they would likely also cry out in bitter protest, CERTAINLY NOT. Question re this today is the following. Anyone believe them? Has the FBI really changed, that is has there actually been movement in the direction of improvement or the correction of past errors? Has there ever been serious legal action taken agaist any of the FBI types, present or former, that were responsible for what could well be described as a serious miscarriage of justice, to put the thing politely? Is the FBI trustworthy?
Two survivors and the families of a couple of men that died in prison have filed suit against the government seeking, according to the article, as much as $100,000,000 in damages. Interestingly, if there is any monetary award, it will come out of the pockets of the taxpayers, and not from the FBI's "lunch money", or from penalties against any former FBI types, who played a part of this fiasco, and who might still be alive, likely since retired on their government pensions.
One thing about this entire business strikes me as sort of interesting, that being the following. If, at the time, back in the 1960's, one had asked the FBI if they would be a party to such questionable activity, their answer would have been, likely in a horrified tone, CERTAINLY NOT. Some might have believed them too.
Today, if the FBI were asked whether or not they would ever act in a similar manner, especially with respect to the aditional broadened powers they seek and or have been offered, they would likely also cry out in bitter protest, CERTAINLY NOT. Question re this today is the following. Anyone believe them? Has the FBI really changed, that is has there actually been movement in the direction of improvement or the correction of past errors? Has there ever been serious legal action taken agaist any of the FBI types, present or former, that were responsible for what could well be described as a serious miscarriage of justice, to put the thing politely? Is the FBI trustworthy?