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Mises Institute, September 25, 2021<\/h3>\n

My Time with the FBI<\/a><\/h2>\n
by James Bovard<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
\n

From the early 1990s onward, I was exposing FBI crimes, lies, and cover-ups. FBI director Louis Freeh publicly denounced me<\/a> after I wrote a Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/a> piece on the FBI\u2019s killing of an innocent mother holding her baby at Ruby Ridge, Idaho. I continued hammering FBI abuses in the Journal<\/em>, Playboy<\/em><\/a>, American Spectator<\/em><\/a>, and other publications.<\/p>\n

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Undercover federal agent?!?<\/p><\/div>\n

One of the FBI\u2019s biggest blunders occurred when it falsely accused a hapless security guard of masterminding an explosion at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. Richard Jewell heroically saved lives by detecting and removing a pipe bomb before it exploded. But the FBI decided that Jewell had actually planted the bomb and leaked that charge to the media, which proceeded to drag Jewell\u2019s life through the dirt for eighty-eight days. The FBI did nothing to curb the media harassment long after it recognized Jewell was innocent. I flogged the FBI\u2019s vilification of Jewell in my 2000 book, Feeling Your Pain: The Explosion and Abuse of Government Power in the Clinton-Gore Years<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

In August 2001, I took a brief vacation in the mountains of western North Carolina. My then spouse was leafing through a tourist guidebook and swooned over a chalet inn she saw that was far off the beaten path. Alas, the directions to that hideaway were not worth a plug nickel. After futilely roving that zip code for an hour, I pulled up in front of a hardware store in Whittier, a one-stoplight hamlet, to cuss and recheck the map.<\/p>\n

I stepped out of my car and fired up a cheap cigar as I leaned against the front hood of my Ford. Ninety seconds later, a big ol\u2019 bald guy wearing bib overalls came bounding out of the hardware store and asked in a booming voice: \u201cWhat part of Maryland you from?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cRockville,\u201d I replied.<\/p>\n

He told me his name was Dennis and started chatting me up at racehorse pace. He told me that he was originally from Maryland, had been living down here for twenty years, worked as a long-haul truck driver and maybe that\u2019s why he had prostate problems. He boasted that he lost $5,000 gambling last year at a nearby Cherokee Indian casino but a buddy of his lost $60,000. He said he owned four acres of land a few miles away and then bragged about all the babes he\u2019d boinked before he got married in 1987.<\/p>\n

I nodded and threw in an occasional \u201chuh.\u201d Since I was raised in the mountains of Virginia, I was accustomed to country folks rattling on like they hadn\u2019t spoken to anyone since the last solar eclipse. But something about this guy\u2019s palavering seemed amiss.<\/p>\n

And then he suddenly paused mid-sentence and stared at me intently.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think you might be an undercover federal agent,\u201d he gravely announced.<\/p>\n

Holy crap! I would have been less astounded if he’d accused me of being a vampire come to rob the local blood bank.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy do you think I\u2019m a fed?\u201d I asked incredulously. Shazam\u2014my battered railroad cap was supposed to make me immune from such suspicions.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause you\u2019re driving a black car with a Maryland license plate,\u201d he replied without missing a beat.<\/p>\n

I rolled my eyes and raised both arms by my side. \u201cAre there any other signs of undercover federal agents?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n

\u201cYa\u2014they have hidden tracking devices on the underside of the back of the car.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFeel free to check out my car,\u201d I grinned.<\/p>\n

\u201cOK!\u201d<\/p>\n

He and I walked to the back of my vehicle, he got down on his knees and pawed his big right hand around the Ford\u2019s underside. A minute later, after he found no GPS tracker, he decided I wasn\u2019t a G-man and gave me a hearty handshake.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t mean no harm by saying you were a fed,\u201d he apologized.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo sweat,\u201d I replied. \u201cFeds don\u2019t like me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just that this whole area was crawling with hundreds of FBI agents a few years ago\u2014ever since they heard Eric Rudolph was hiding out somewhere in the mountains nearby,\u201d Dennis explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhoa\u2014I had forgotten the feds came looking for Rudolph in North Carolina,\u201d I replied.<\/p>\n

After the FBI finished slandering Richard Jewell, they announced that Rudolph was the 1996 Olympic bomber, placed him on their Most Wanted\u00a0list, and put a million-dollar bounty on his head.<\/p>\n

Dennis warmed to the subject. \u201cThe FBI bragged that they were sending their best agents here and would catch Rudolph real quick. FBI came in like they owned the place. When they took over a motel for their headquarters, their agents went around banging on doors and threw every guest out on the spot. Their strutting was so bad that some restaurants refused to serve them. Well, they didn\u2019t really refuse\u2014they just told the FBI agents they had to leave their guns outside. Restaurants knew the agents weren\u2019t allowed to do that. People taunted the feds with signs saying, \u2018Eric Rudolph Ate Here.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd they never caught Rudolph,\u201d I commented.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo,\u201d Dennis replied. \u201cNobody would give them the time of day. After a few months, most of the agents were sent back to Washington.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dennis became more at ease after I mentioned that I\u2019d written about federal outrages at Waco and Ruby Ridge\u2014two cases that epitomized the FBI\u2019s right to kill with impunity. Dennis was far better informed on Waco and Ruby Ridge than the vast majority of people I met inside the Beltway, who took their reality from the Washington Post<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Dennis wasn\u2019t the type to take guff from any federal agent. He was a hunter, and proudly recapped how he’d told a Fish and Wildlife Service agent to go to hell a few months earlier. He started out talking about how the people in that neck of the woods were fine folks but later lamented that most of his neighbors had no interest in ideas. He wasn\u2019t like them, he assured me, because \u201cI didn\u2019t fall off the pickle wagon yesterday\u201d (i.e., wasn\u2019t born yesterday).<\/p>\n

After two hours, Dennis was \u201ctalked out.\u201d He wasn\u2019t familiar with that chalet that my wife wanted to visit but said that she and I were welcome to stay at his house that night. I thanked him kindly but said we should probably be heading down the road toward\u00a0Asheville.<\/p>\n

Eric Rudolph was finally captured in 2003 by a local policeman in a small town about an hour from that hardware store. He pleaded guilty to the Atlanta bombing as well as bombings of abortion clinics and a lesbian nightclub. Shortly after Rudolph was apprehended after more than four years in the mountains, a British newspaper pointed out that the FBI\u2019s failure to catch him illustrated \u201call the shortcomings of a hi-tech, militarized federal force unable to negotiate such alien, not to say hostile, territory.\u201d To nail Rudolph, the feds had pulled out all their tricks, including \u201cbloodhounds, electronic motion detectors, and heat-sensing helicopters.\u201d Instead of a triumphal \u201cperp walk\u201d and press conference, the FBI spurred the local sale of bumper stickers proclaiming, \u201cEric Rudolph: 1998 Hide and Seek Champion.\u201d<\/p>\n

One lesson I took from Dennis was that the FBI\u2019s power and federal legitimacy are far more tenuous than Washington recognizes. Beyond the nation\u2019s big cities and the coastlines, federal authority hinges largely on the consent of local citizens. Once that consent vanishes, FBI agents are left to sit in their cars eating their lunches all by themselves. But plenty of pundits and congressmen still clamor for the government to confiscate everyone\u2019s guns or forcibly inject their children. If the feds came in and started shooting mountain men who refused to surrender their firearms, they would likely quickly find themselves in a worse plight than Custer at the Little Big Horn.<\/p>\n

And the other lesson I took from meeting Dennis?<\/p>\n

People in Washington think I’m a redneck, and rednecks think I’m an undercover fed. I can\u2019t get a break.<\/p>\n

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Bovard\u2019s writings have been publicly denounced by FBI director Louis Freeh, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, the Postmaster General, and the chiefs of the U.S. International Trade Commission, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, as well as by many congressmen and other malcontents.","sameAs":["http:\/\/www.jimbovard.com","https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jim.bovard","https:\/\/x.com\/jimbovard"],"url":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/author\/admin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16539"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16545,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16539\/revisions\/16545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}