Kamala’s press chief tried to censor me by James Bovard, August 5, 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris is not missing any chance to condemn Republicans for threatening to censor libraries and school textbooks. But she is overlooking the heavy-handed record of her chief spokesperson, Brian Fallon. Unfortunately, a recent Supreme Court decision opens the […]
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Recapping FBI Triumphs and Coverups on the Scott Horton Show
The biggest shocker in this interview was Scott’s revelation that he became radicalized in 1997 by listening to the Rush Limbaugh Show. Considering how Scott’s superb work making Antiwar.com and the Libertarian Institute influential around the globe, this requires re-thinking Limbaugh’s legacy. Scott and I recapped the story of the FBI’s role in the 1993 […]
30th Anniversary of the FBI’s Biggest ‘Bomb’
30th Anniversary of the FBI’s Biggest ‘Bomb’ by James Bovard Thirty years ago this past Sunday, the largest terrorist attack in American history up to that point occurred when a 1200-pound bomb exploded beneath the World Trade Center in New York City. It was sheer luck that the explosion did not topple the entire skyscraper […]
New York Post: 1993 World Trade Center Attack was FBI’s Biggest Bomb
New York Post, February 26, 2023 30 years ago, the FBI might have had its biggest bomb: the World Trade Center attack By James Bovard Thirty years ago Sunday, the largest terrorist attack then in American history occurred when a 1,200-pound bomb exploded beneath the World Trade Center in New York City. It was sheer […]
Randy Weaver, R.I.P. Ruby Ridge is not Forgotten
Randy Weaver has passed away. Three decades ago, he was entrapped by an ATF agent. Federal agents subsequently killed his son and wife. The Justice Department denied that anyone’s rights were violated but still paid a multi-million dollar settlement for the Weaver family’s wrongful death lawsuit. Federal abuses at Ruby Ridge, the subsequent FBI coverup, […]
My Time with the FBI
Mises Institute, September 25, 2021 My Time with the FBI by James Bovard From the early 1990s onward, I was exposing FBI crimes, lies, and cover-ups. FBI director Louis Freeh publicly denounced me after I wrote a Wall Street Journal piece on the FBI’s killing of an innocent mother holding her baby at Ruby Ridge, […]
Ruby Ridge and the FBI License to Kill
Today is the 29th anniversary of FBI sniper Lon Horiuchi killing Vicki Weaver as she stood in the door of a cabin at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, holding her baby. The FBI initially claimed that killing Mrs. Weaver was justified and then later covered up key details and claimed it was accidental. FBI chief Louis Freeh […]