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FBI Boss Robert Mueller Conned America to Ravage Our Rights<\/strong><\/a><\/h1>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

by James Bovard\"\"<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Former FBI director Robert Mueller was a twenty-first century version of J. Edgar Hoover, trampling the Constitution and seizing new power on any pretext.<\/strong> When Mueller died in March, the New York Times<\/em> eulogized him as a \u201cbutton-down, lockjawed, rock-ribbed exemplar of a vanishing caste.\u201d Media tributes poured in as if Mueller was the law-enforcement version of Mother Theresa.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Mueller\u2019s abuse of power goes way back<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

But tell that to the Liberty City Seven, victims in a landmark case in the war on terror that should have defined Mueller\u2019s legacy far more than his photo ops at congressional hearings. The FBI completely fabricated the Liberty City plot in Miami.<\/strong> But Mueller lied, telling America that the arrestees \u2014 mostly Haitian-Americans \u2014 a \u201chomegrown terrorist cell … self-recruited, self-trained, and self-executing.\u201d The FBI lavished money on an informant who suggested the idea of blowing up government buildings and then tape-recorded the subsequent discussions to incriminate his targets. The plotters were so knuckle-headed that they asked the FBI informant for terrorist uniforms and wanted to conduct a parade in their low-rent neighborhood. At one point, the lead plotter talked about blowing up the Sears Tower in Chicago, the nation\u2019s tallest building, \u201cso that it would fall into Lake Michigan and create a tsunami\u201d \u2014 thereby allowing the plotters to free all the Muslims detained in Chicago jails. The informant coached the men into reciting a goofily-worded pledge of allegiance to al Qaeda, which was secretly videotaped.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The FBI gave the plotters a digital video camera and rented them a car so they could visit downtown Miami and photograph the FBI building and other federal targets they were encouraged to attack. The videotape was one of the few pieces of concrete evidence offered at the subsequent trial.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

One of the informants kept dangling the prospect of giving $50,000 to the plotters if they moved forward with their scheme. When the feds raided the warehouse that the government provided for the plotters\u2019 headquarters (complete with a fully stocked refrigerator), they found no weapons or plans for attacks. After the arrests were announced, a local activist told Democracy Now: \u201cEveryone in Liberty City is joking that the guys were going to kick down the FBI building with their new boots, because they didn\u2019t have any devices which could have been used to explode\u201d the target. One commentator suggested that the \u201cLiberty City Seven\u201d would be incapable of robbing a 7-Eleven, much less overthrowing the U.S. government.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The prosecution of the highest-profile domestic terrorist plot went awry from the start. The first jury refused to convict, deadlocking on charges except for one defendant found not guilty. The Justice Department claimed the verdict entitled the feds to try again, but a second jury also deadlocked. In a shameless abuse of power, the feds tried the accused again and finally got a conviction in 2009 for five of the six accused. The feds spent up to $10 million prosecuting the case. The feds happily destroyed a half-dozen lives to give a booster shot of fear for the war on terror.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

After the 9\/11 attacks occurred and the Bush administration worked to maximize Americans\u2019 fears, entrapment became the easiest way for the FBI to score triumphal headlines. Trevor Aaronson, the author of The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI\u2019s Manufactured War on Terrorism<\/em>, estimated that only about 1 percent of the 500 people charged with international terrorism offenses in the decade after 9\/11 were bona fide terrorists. Thirty times as many were induced by FBI informants to behave in ways that prompted their arrest.<\/strong> In one high-profile case, a judge concluded that the government \u201ccame up with the crime, provided the means, and removed all relevant obstacles,\u201d making a terrorist out of a man \u201cwhose buffoonery is positively Shakespearean in scope\u201d and who was involved in a \u201cfantasy terror operation.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The 9\/11 deceit<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Mueller took over the FBI one week before the 9\/11 attacks and began brazenly deceiving America even before the smoke had cleared from the World Trade Center wreckag<\/strong>e. On Sept. 14, 2011, Mueller declared, \u201cThe fact that there were a number of individuals that happened to have received training at flight schools here is news, quite obviously. If we had understood that to be the case, we would have \u2014 perhaps one could have averted this.\u201d Three days later, Mueller announced: \u201cThere were no warning signs that I\u2019m aware of that would indicate this type of operation in the country.\u201d His protestations of bureaucratic innocence helped the Bush administration railroad the Patriot Act through Congress, vastly expanding the FBI\u2019s prerogatives to spy on average Americans.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Deceit helped legitimize those intrusive new prerogatives<\/strong>. The Bush administration suppressed until

Mueller bolstered his popularity with the Bush administration by ramping up arrests. FBI agent Rowley complained to Mueller, \u201cAfter 9\/11, [FBI] Headquarters encouraged more and more detentions for what seem to be essentially PR purposes. Field offices were required to report daily the number of detentions in order to supply grist for statements on our progress in fighting terrorism.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

NSL tyranny<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Thanks to the Patriot Act, the FBI increased by a hundredfold \u2014 up to 50,000 a year \u2014 the number of National Security Letters (NSLs) it issued to citizens, business, and nonprofit organizations, and recipients were prohibited from disclosing that their data had been raided. NSLs entitle the FBI to seize records that reveal \u201cwhere a person makes and spends money, with whom he lives and lived before, how much he gambles, what he buys online, what he pawns and borrows, where he travels, how he invests, what he searches for and reads on the Web, and who telephones or e-mails him at home and at work,\u201d the Washington Post<\/em> noted. The FBI can lasso thousands of people\u2019s records with a single NSL \u2014 regardless of the Fourth Amendment\u2019s prohibition of unreasonable warrantless searches.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The FBI greatly understated the number of NSLs it was issuing and denied that abuses had occurred, thereby helping sway Congress to renew the Patriot Act in 2006. The following year, an Inspector General report revealed that FBI agents may have recklessly issued thousands of illegal NSLs. Shortly after that report was released, federal judge Victor Marrero denounced the NSL process as \u201cthe legislative equivalent of breaking and entering, with an ominous free pass to the hijacking of constitutional values.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Rather than arresting FBI agents who broke the law, Mueller created a new FBI Office of Integrity and Compliance.<\/strong> The Electronic Freedom Foundation, after winning lawsuits to garner FBI reports to a federal oversight board, concluded that the FBI may have committed \u201ctens of thousands\u201d of violations of federal law, regulations, or Executive Orders between 2001 and 2008.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

President Bush, scorning a unanimous 1972 Supreme Court ruling, decided he was entitled to impose warrantless wiretaps on Americans.<\/strong> At an

Like hell. Nearly nine months later, the New York Times<\/em> revealed that Bush had unleashed NSA to illegally wiretap up to 500 people within the United States at any given time and peruse millions of other Americans\u2019 emails. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales responded to the uproar by asserting that \u201cthe president has the inherent authority\u201d to order such wiretaps. Mueller had no trouble with that dictatorial doctrine \u2014 even though the same claim spurred one of the articles of impeachment crafted against President Nixon.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Secret surveillance\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Mueller\u2019s biggest coup against privacy occurred with Section 215 of the Patriot Act<\/strong>, which entitles the FBI to demand \u201cbusiness records\u201d that are \u201crelevant\u201d to a terrorism or espionage investigation. In 2011 testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee, Mueller \u201csuggested the FBI interpreted (Section 215) narrowly and used it sparingly,\u201d the ACLU noted. But Mueller was the point man for the Bush administration\u2019s bizarre 2006 decision (perpetuated by Obama) that all Americans\u2019 telephone records were \u201crelevant\u201d to terrorism investigations. Several times a year, Mueller signed orders to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, swaying it to continually renew its order compelling telephone companies to deliver all their calling records (including time, duration, and location of calls) to the National Security Agency.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

On

Mueller sought to dampen the Snowden uproar by testifying to Congress that the feds could not listen to Americans\u2019 calls without a warrant for that \u201cparticular phone and that particular individual.\u201d But that was another lie. NSA employees had broad discretion to vacuum up Americans\u2019 info without warrants, and NSA\u2019s definition of terrorist suspect was so ludicrously broad that it includes \u201csomeone searching the web for suspicious stuff.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The Robert Mueller investigation<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Mueller was replaced at the FBI by James Comey. After Comey was fired in

Actually, the Mueller report was a greater disgrace than recognized at that time. Mueller overlooked the FBI\u2019s brazen bias in the 2016 presidential campaign to assist Democratic presidential candidate Hillary C<\/strong>linton. The Clinton Foundation raked in hundreds of millions of dollars of squirrely foreign contributions while she was secretary of state and revving up her presidential campaign. The Durham report found that \u201csenior FBI and Department officials placed restrictions on how [the Clinton Foundation investigation was] handled such that essentially no investigative activities occurred for months leading up to the election.\u201d On top of that dereliction, \u201cthe FBI appears to have made no effort to investigate … the Clinton campaign\u2019s purported acceptance of a [illegal] campaign contribution that was made by the FBI\u2019s own long-term [confidential human source] on behalf of Insider-I and, ultimately, Foreign Government.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Top FBI officials also saved Hillary Clinton by scorning the federal statute book and treating her pervasive, perpetual violations of federal laws on classified documents as a harmless, unintentional error. On top of that, the Durham report found, \u201cClinton allegedly approved a proposal from one of her foreign policy advisors to tie Trump to Russia as a means of distracting the public from her use of a private email server.\u201d CIA chief John Brennan briefed President Barack Obama and other top officials on \u201calleged approval by Hillary Clinton on

In 1945, President Harry Truman wrote in his diary: \u201cWe want no Gestapo or Secret Police. FBI is tending in that direction.\u201d Mueller took the bureau far down that dark road. Whitewashing Mueller\u2019s sordid record will simply invite more FBI depredations of Americans\u2019 rights and liberties.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

James Bovard is a policy advisor to The Future of Freedom Foundation and is the author of the ebook <\/em>Freedom Frauds: Hard Lessons in American Liberty<\/a>, published by FFF, his new book,<\/em> Last Rights: The Death of American Liberty, and nine other books.<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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