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\"\"<\/a>Future of Freedom Foundation <\/a>\"\"<\/a><\/h4>\n

The FBI\u2019s Forgotten Criminal Record<\/a><\/h1>\n

by James Bovard<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span>

President Trump\u2019s firing of FBI chief James Comey on May 9 spurred much of the media and many Democrats to rally around America\u2019s most powerful domestic federal agency. But the FBI has a long record of both deceit and incompetence. Five years ago, Americans learned that the FBI was teaching its agents that \u201cthe FBI has the ability to bend or suspend the law to impinge on the freedom of others.\u201d This has practically been the Bureau\u2019s motif since its creation in 1908.<\/p>\n

The bureau was small potatoes until Woodrow Wilson dragged the United States into World War I. In one fell swoop, the number of dangerous Americans increased by perhaps twentyfold. The Espionage Act of 1917 made it easy to jail anyone who criticized the war or the government. In September 1918, the bureau, working with local police and private vigilantes, seized more than 50,000 suspected draft dodgers off the streets and out of the restaurants of New York, Newark, and Jersey City. The Justice Department was disgraced when the vast majority of young men who had been arrested turned out to be innocent.<\/p>\n

In January 1920, J. Edgar Hoover \u2014 the 25-year-old chief of the bureau\u2019s Radical Division \u2014 was the point man for the \u201cPalmer Raids.\u201d Nearly 10,000 suspected Reds and radicals were seized. The bureau carefully avoided keeping an accurate count of detainees (a similar pattern of negligence occurred with the roundups after the 9\/11 attacks). Attorney General Mitchell Palmer sought to use the massive roundups to propel his presidential candidacy. The operation took a drubbing, however, after an insolent judge demanded that the Justice Department provide evidence for why people had been arrested. Federal judge George Anderson complained that the government had created a \u201cspy system\u201d that \u201cdestroys trust and confidence and propagates hate. A mob is a mob whether made up of government officials acting under instructions from the Department of Justice, or of criminals, loafers, and the vicious classes.\u201d<\/p>\n

After the debacle of the Palmer raids, the bureau devoted its attention to the nation\u2019s real enemies: the U.S. Congress. The bureau targeted \u201csenators whom the Attorney General saw as threats to America. The Bureau was breaking into their offices and homes, intercepting their mail, and tapping their telephones,\u201d as Tim Weiner recounted in his 2012 book Enemies: The History of the FBI.<\/i> The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee was illegally targeted because the bureau feared he might support diplomatic recognition of Soviet Russia.<\/p>\n<\/header>\n

Hoover, who ran the FBI from 1924 until his death in 1972, built a revered agency that utterly intimidated official Washington. The FBI tapped the home telephone of a Supreme Court clerk, and at least one Supreme Court Justice feared the FBI had bugged the conference room where justices privately discussed cases. In 1945, President Harry Truman wrote in his diary, \u201cWe want no Gestapo or Secret Police. FBI is tending in that direction\u2026. This must stop.\u201d But Truman did not have the gumption to pull in the reins.The bureau\u2019s power soared after Congress passed the Internal Security Act of 1950, authorizing massive crackdowns on suspected subversives. Hoover compiled a list of more than 20,000 \u201cpotentially or actually dangerous\u201d Americans who could be seized and locked away at the president\u2019s command. Hoover specified that \u201cthe hearing procedure [for detentions] will not be bound by the rules of evidence.\u201d \u201cCongress secretly financed the creation of six of these [detention] camps in the 1950s,\u201d noted Weiner. (When rumors began circulating in the 1990s that the Federal Emergency Management Agency was building detention camps, government officials and much of the media scoffed that such a thing could never occur in this nation.)<\/p>\n

From 1956 through 1971, the FBI\u2019s COINTELPRO program conducted thousands of covert operations to incite street warfare between violent groups, to get people fired, to portray innocent people as government informants, and to cripple or destroy left-wing, black, communist, white racist, and anti-war organizations. FBI agents also busied themselves forging \u201cpoison pen\u201d letters to wreck activists\u2019 marriages. The FBI set up a Ghetto Informant Program that continued after COINTELPRO and that had 7,402 informants, including proprietors of candy stores and barbershops, as of September 1972. The informants served as \u201clistening posts\u201d \u201cto identify extremists passing through or locating in the ghetto area, to identify purveyors of extremist literature,\u201d and to keep an eye on \u201cAfro-American type bookstores\u201d (including obtaining the names of the bookstores\u2019 \u201cclientele\u201d).<\/p>\n

The FBI let no corner of American life escape its vigilance; it even worked to expose and discredit \u201ccommunists who are secretly operating in legitimate organizations and employments, such as the Young Men\u2019s Christian Association and Boy Scouts,\u201d as a 1976 Senate report noted. The FBI took a shotgun approach to target and harass protesters partly because of its \u201cbelief that dissident speech and association should be prevented because they were incipient steps toward the possible ultimate commission of an act which might be criminal,\u201d the Senate report observed. That report characterized COINTELPRO as \u201ca secret war against those citizens [the FBI] considers threats to the established order.\u201d COINTELPRO was exposed only after a handful of activists burglarized an FBI office in a Philadelphia suburb, seized FBI files, and leaked the damning documents to the media. The revelations were briefly shocking but faded into the Washington Memory Hole.<\/p>\n

FBI haughtiness was showcased on national television on April 19, 1993, when its agents used 54-ton tanks to smash into the Branch Davidians\u2019 sprawling, ramshackle home near Waco, Texas. The tanks intentionally collapsed 25 percent of the building on top of the huddled residents. After the FBI pumped the building full of CS gas (banned for use on enemy soldiers by a chemical-weapons treaty), a fire ignited that left 80 children, women, and men dead. The FBI swore it was not to blame for the conflagration. However, FBI agents had stopped firetrucks from a local fire department far from the burning building, claiming it was not safe to allow them any closer because the Davidians might shoot people dousing a fire that was killing them. Six years after the assault, news leaked that the FBI had fired incendiary tear-gas cartridges into the Davidians\u2019 home prior to the fire\u2019s erupting. Attorney General Janet Reno, furious over the FBI\u2019s deceit on this key issue, sent U.S. marshals to raid FBI headquarters to search for more Waco evidence. From start to finish, the FBI brazenly lied about what it did at Waco \u2014 with one exception. On the day after the Waco fire, FBI on-scene commander Larry Potts explained the rationale for the FBI\u2019s final assault: \u201cThese people \u00a0had thumbed their nose at law enforcement.\u201d<\/p>\n

Terrorism<\/b><\/p>\n

FBI counterterrorism spending soared in the mid to late 1990s. But the FBI dismally failed to connect the dots on suspicious foreigners engaged in domestic aviation training prior to the 9\/11 attacks. Though Congress had deluged the FBI with almost $2 billion to upgrade its computers, many FBI agents had ancient machines incapable of searching the web. One FBI agent observed that the bureau ethos is that \u201creal men don\u2019t type\u2026. The computer revolution just passed us by.\u201d The FBI\u2019s pre\u20139\/11 blunders \u201ccontributed to the United States becoming, in effect, a sanctuary for radical terrorists,\u201d according to a 2002 congressional investigation. Former National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft groused that \u201cthe safest place in the world for a terrorist to be is inside the United States; as long as they don\u2019t do something that trips them up against our laws, they can do pretty much all they want.\u201d Sen. Richard Shelby in 2002 derided \u201cthe FBI\u2019s dismal recent history of disorganization and institutional incompetence in its national security work.\u201d (The FBI also lost track of a key informant at the heart of the cabal that detonated a truck bomb beneath the World Trade Center in 1993.)<\/p>\n

The FBI has long relied on entrapment to boost its arrest statistics and publicity bombardments.<\/strong> The FBI Academy taught agents that subjects of FBI investigations \u201chave forfeited their right to the truth.\u201d After 9\/11, this doctrine helped the agency to entrap legions of patsies who made the FBI appear to be protecting the nation. Trevor Aaronson, author of The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI\u2019s Manufactured War on Terrorism,<\/i> estimated that only about 1 percent of the 500 people charged with international terrorism offenses in the decade after 9\/11 were bona fide threats. Thirty times as many were induced by the FBI to behave in ways that prompted their arrest.<\/p>\n

In the Liberty City 7 case in Florida, FBI informants planted the notion of blowing up government buildings. In one case, a federal judge concluded that the government \u201ccame up with the crime, provided the means, and removed all relevant obstacles\u201d in order to make a \u201cterrorist\u201d out of a man \u201cwhose buffoonery is positively Shakespearean in scope.\u201d<\/p>\n

The FBI\u2019s informant program extended far beyond Muslims. The FBI bankrolled a right-wing New Jersey blogger and radio host for five years prior to his 2009 arrest for threatening federal judges. We have no idea how many bloggers, talk-show hosts, or activists the FBI is currently financing.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The FBI\u2019s power has rarely been effectively curbed by either Congress or federal courts. In 1971, House Majority Leader Hale Boggs declared that the FBI\u2019s power terrified Capitol Hill: \u201cOur very fear of speaking out [against the FBI] \u2026 has watered the roots and hastened the growth of a vine of tyranny\u2026. Our society cannot survive a planned and programmed fear of its own government bureaus and agencies.\u201d Boggs vindicated a 1924 American Civil Liberties Union report warning that the FBI had become \u201ca secret police system of a political character\u201d \u2014 a charge that supporters of both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump would have cheered last year.<\/p>\n

The FBI has always used its \u201cgood guy\u201d image to keep a lid on its crimes.<\/strong> The controversy swirling about Comey\u2019s firing should spur the American people, media, and Congress to take the FBI off its pedestal and place it where it belongs \u2014 under the law. It is time to cease venerating a federal agency whose abuses have perennially menaced Americans\u2019 constitutional rights. Otherwise, the FBI\u2019s vast power and pervasive secrecy guarantee that more FBI scandals are just around the bend.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This article was originally published in the August 2017 edition of Future of Freedom<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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