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\"fbi-badge\"<\/a>My faith in American justice has been restored. An FBI review found that the FBI agent who killed a Chechen in Florida<\/a> last year followed all the bureau’s protocols for shooting an unarmed\u00a0suspect during an interrogation.<\/p>\n

“Nothing to see here, folks – move along.”<\/p>\n

My liberal friends told me that the feds would behave better after Obama took charge.\u00a0 But Eric Holder was knee-deep in coverups in the 1990s – perhaps part of the reason why he rose to become Attorney General.<\/p>\n

How many years will it be before we find out exactly how and why an FBI agent killed Ibragim Todashev?<\/p>\n

As for the “innocence” of the FBI agent –\u00a0 tell it to Vicki Weaver<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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