POSTED RESPONSE TO A COLUMN IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL
The blubbering of the head of the FBI only adds to America's shame, for the FBI has an immensely long record of being a costly flop in almost every major task it has undertaken, besides functioning as a kind of political police.
From the assassination of John Kennedy to 9/11, the FBI has been a disaster.
Under J Edgar Hoover, the FBI in its early days illegally rounded up and deported migrants that it chose to believe were unreliable.
In Hoover's later days, the agency functioned sometimes as an out-and-out terrorist organization itself.
It conducted thousands of illegal wiretaps. It illegally opened people’s mail. It threatened and intimidated anyone Hoover did not like.
One of its efforts was dedicated to spying on Martin Luther King and shaming him with his family in hopes that he would commit suicide. Imagine, a Nobel Peace Prize winner.
Its investigation into the crash of Flight 800 off the East Coast of the U.S. was long and its findings simply not to be believed, being contradicted by many witnesses and sound evidence like radar tracks.
It basically covered up the truth, which almost certainly was the mistaken release of an American Navy anti-aircraft missile (much like the Navy’s destruction of the Iranian airliner with 300 souls aboard).
The FBI conducted a relentless effort to destroy Dr Wen Ho Lee, an atomic scientist, of espionage for China. They used papers like the New York Times to leak false leads and ruined his career, but Wen Ho Lee was a completely innocent man and they never found credible evidence to the contrary.
The thugs at the FBI spend their time on garbage like looking up what people have been reading in the public libraries.
It was widely known that in bars in Chicago or Boston or New York, the hat was passed regularly for supporting the IRA's terror.
I'm sure the bulk of the IRA's funding came from the U.S.
It reflected sentimental Irish attitudes combined with powerful anti-British attitudes, something still easy to discover in the U.S. despite Blair's pathetic efforts to win American approval through joining in their war crimes.
I've never read a single expression of shame or sorrow over that dark history.
And certainly the FBI never lifted a finger.
