On the No Collusion findings of Mueller’s report, it’s worth recognizing that this is more than an exoneration. It’s a searing indictment of the FBI.
If you are going to investigate a presidential campaign, and on a charge as grave as collusion, and with the heavy-handed tactics the FBI employed–you’d better have a highly convincing reason to act. The Mueller report is a judgment that never was any real evidence.
The Papadopoulos conversation was always weak at best, and the Mueller findings now prove the dossier was a fabrication. The country now deserves a full accounting of how the FBI took the bait so readily.
Hopefully, Mueller will address this historic shortfall. But the real accounting needs to come from a full declassification of FBI/DOJ probe docs. Mueller report is only half the story. Time to go back to the beginning, to how we got a special counsel in first place.
Former President’s Involvement
Obama wiretapped a campaign, spied on
Over two years, if you’re an MSNBC or CNN viewer you were fed a steady stream of conspiratorial BS that completely warped your view of the world, all while they purposely excluded anyone who questioned their fraud & profited off your fears.
This is – by far – the worst media humiliation since 2002. The lead anchor of MSNBC – the most influential liberal TV host – devoted her entire being to a fake conspiracy theory for 2 1/2 years, misleading millions.
40 agents, 2,800 subpoenas, 500 search warrants, and 500 witnesses and zero evidence of “collusion” and AG says the “report identifies no actions that in our
The Obama administration’s last CIA director went on tv and repeatedly suggested that the sitting President committed treason and was an agent of the Russian Federation.
It is hard to overstate how reckless, stupid, and damaging to the reputation of the intel community this was. Would not be
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Carla Jasper says
It blows your mind doesn’t it? Thank you for your diligent informative articles.
Paul Plante says
In all seriousness, since the end of WWII, can anyone think of ANYTHING the so-called “intelligence community,” which is political, has ever gotten right?
Even one thing?
Like there were no Chinese in Korea and the Chinese would not cross the Yalu?
They nailed it there, alright.
Or the Buddhists would never uprise against Diem in Viet Nam, who was very popular?
There’s another one they nailed right on the head.
And then there is this excerpt from pp.100-102 of A BETTER WAR, The Unexamined Victories and Final Tragedy of America’s Last Years in Vietnam by Lewis Sorley, a third-generation graduate of West Point holding a doctorate from Johns Hopkins University with two decades of service in the U.S. Army including command of tank and armored cavalry units, teaching at West Point and the Army War College, and Pentagon staff duty who was later a senior civilian official of the Central Intelligence Agency, to wit:
While the Ho Chi Minh Trail was under fierce and continuous air attack, access to the South Vietnamese coast from the sea had since mid-1966 been effectively sealed off through intensive patrolling by South Vietnamese and U.S. ships.
But there was a flood of supplies coming into the Cambodian port of Sihanoukville and then through Cambodia into III and IV Corps of South Vietnam and even up to the southern portions of II Corps.
By January 1969 it was clear to MACV analysts that Sihanoukville was “the primary point of entry for supplies, especially arms and ammunition, destined for enemy forces in southern South Vietnam.”
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The distribution system was well organized and efficient.
After leaving Sihanoukville, the munitions were transported to an arms depot at Kampong Speu, about twenty-five miles southwest of Phnom Penh, or to warehouses in the capital city.
From there they were distributed to enemy base areas in the border region, and eventually to troop units in South Vietnam.
At CIA this picture of the enemy supply system had for a long time been vigorously disputed.
There the “intelligence analysts at the Washington level” really came down to one man, a veteran CIA officer named James Graham.
The lead analyst on the problem, he stubbornly refused, year after year, to be convinced that any significant amount of military wherewithal was reaching the enemy through the port of Sihanoukville.
Within MCV, the “Graham Report” staking out that position became infamous.
MACV was incensed by its obtuseness, as they saw it, or worse.
Later (General) Davidson, who had struggled with this problem when he was MACV J-2, recalled that Graham once said to him, “Sometimes you’ve got to find what you’ve got to find.”
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Yes, indeed, people, if you want to keep that political job in the “intelligence” community, you have to be intelligent enough to “find what you’ve got to find,” like my goodness, Trump is in bed with every Russian oligarch who ever drew a breath.
And then there is this from p.168 of A BETTER WAR, The Unexamined Victories and Final Tragedy of America’s Last Years in Vietnam by Lewis Sorley:
The issue of enemy use of Sihanoukville continued to rankle.
Even when, after literally years of effort, MACV’s view finally prevailed, resentment remained.
“What was the name of that CIA chap that came out here?” (Commanding General Creighton) Abrams asked in a mid-December 1969 WIEU (Weekly Intelligence Estimate Update).
It was Graham, Abrams was told, and Graham had now capitulated.
“Yeah,” recalled Abrams, “but he’s the one that said out here – remember he told (Lt. Gen. Phillip B.) Davidson that ‘there are political reasons why you should not arrive at the conclusion?'”
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There is a classic line, alright – “there are political reasons why you should not arrive at the conclusion!”
Then we fast forward to March 26, 2003 from pp.164-166 of In The Company of Soldiers – A Chronicle of Combat by Rick Atkinson, to wit:
I arrived in the ACP at 7:30 A.M. to find Petraeus (Commanding General, 101st Airborne Division) on the phone with Wallace (Lt. General William S. Wallace, Commander, V Corps).
His face was drawn, as if he had slept poorly.
An intelligence officer, Lieutentant Jeanne Hull, told me that orders had come down overnight banning the term “Fedayeen,” which means “men who sacrifice themselves for a cause,” because it ostensibly invested those fighters with too much dignity.
They were to be referred to as paramilitaries.
(Later the approved phrase would be “terroristlike death squads.”)
Hull estimated that there were nine to twelve Fedayeen battalions in Iraq, each with roughly six hundred fighters, including a battalion in Najaf.
In a small blow against Orwellian excess, most officers continued to call them Fedayeen.
Petraeus hung up and ordered Fivecoat to get the Humvee ready for a trip to the V Corps command post at Rams.
He pushed back from the table, snapped the chin strap on his helmet, and shrugged on his flak vest.
“Want to step outside and chat for a minute?” he asked.
We stood fifteen feet beyond the tent flap.
I blinked at the dust and felt grit between my molars.
When Petraeus turned to face me, I was alarmed to see how troubled his blue eyes were.
“This thing is turning to shit,” he said.
“The 3 ID is in danger of running out of food and water.”
“They lost two Abrams and a Bradley last night, although they got the crews out.”
“The corps commander sounds tired.”
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U.S. forces had yet to encounter the Republican Guard, but Iraqi irregulars seemed much more aggressive than anticipated and the Shiite south hardly had welcomed the invaders as liberators.
The battlefield was nonlinear, with only a vague distinction between the front and the rear.
“No one really saw this coming, did they?” I said.
“No,” he replied.
No prewar estimates had anticipated a defense of Najaf by Iraqi regular army or Republican Guard troops, nor did those estimates predict stiff resistance from paramilitary forces.
“We did worst-case scenarios, where the enemy really put up a fight, but no one took it very seriously.”
“We need to get lucky.”
“The CIA really needs to pull this one out.”
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Yeah, right, General Petraeus, in your dreams!
Just because you call them “intelligence” services does not vest them with one ounce of real intelligence, which is why the term “military intelligence” is considered an oxymoron.
Paul Plante says
As to the statement in the above article that “The country now deserves a full accounting of how the FBI took the bait so readily,” that is indeed very true, and that full accounting has to start with the fact that since its beginnings under J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI has been a political police agency, as we can see from the article “Edgar Hoover’s oversteps: Why FBI directors are forbidden from getting cozy with presidents” by Douglas M. Charles, Associate Professor of History, Pennsylvania State University on June 7, 2017, where we have this background to consider, to wit:
FBI historians like myself know that, since the 1970s, bureau directors try to maintain a discrete distance from the president.
This tradition grew out of reforms that followed the often questionable behavior of former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, who served from 1924 to 1972.
Over this long period, Hoover’s relationships with six different presidents often became dangerously close, crossing ethical and legal lines.
When Franklin Roosevelt became president in 1933, Hoover worked hard to develop a close working relationship with the president.
Roosevelt helped promote Hoover’s crime control program and expand FBI authority.
Hoover grew the FBI from a small, relatively limited agency into a large and influential one.
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Now, there is an important background statement to consider – is the FBI today too large and powerful?
Getting back to the article:
He then provided the president with information on his critics, and even some foreign intelligence, all while ingratiating himself with FDR to retain his job.
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How is that different from the FBI aiding and assisting the QUEEN OF AMERICA IN EXILE Hillary Clinton?
Have they somehow become pure, like Hillary, with the passage of time?
And back to the article we again go, to wit:
President Harry Truman didn’t much like Hoover, and thought his FBI was a potential “citizen spy system.”
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Yes, Harry, so they still are today!
Getting back to it:
Hoover found President Dwight Eisenhower to be an ideological ally with an interest in expanding FBI surveillance.
This led to increased FBI use of illegal microphones and wiretaps.
The president looked the other way as the FBI carried out its sometimes questionable investigations.
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You see, people – there really is nothing at all new going on here with respect to questionable investigations by the political police of the FBI, which takes us back to the article as follows:
But when John F. Kennedy became president in 1961, Hoover’s relationship with the president faced a challenge.
JFK’s brother, Robert Kennedy, was made attorney general.
Given JFK’s close relationship with his brother, Hoover could no longer bypass his boss and deal directly with the president, as he so often did in the past.
Not seeing eye to eye with the Kennedys, Hoover cut back on volunteering political intelligence reports to the White House.
Instead, he only responded to requests, while collecting information on JFK’s extramarital affairs.
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Ah, yes, isn’t history a wonderful and enlightening subject?
And back to that history as follows:
By contrast, President Lyndon Johnson had a voracious appetite for FBI political intelligence reports.
Under his presidency, the FBI became a direct vehicle for servicing the president’s political interests.
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Now, the FBI has become a direct vehicle for servicing the political interests of the Clintons, which takes us back to the political role the FBI plays in this country, as follows:
LBJ issued an executive order exempting Hoover from mandatory retirement at the time, when the FBI director reached age 70.
Owing his job to LBJ, Hoover designated a top FBI official, FBI Assistant Director Cartha “Deke” DeLoach, as the official FBI liaison to the president.
The FBI monitored the Democratic National Convention at LBJ’s request.
When Johnson’s aide, Walter Jenkins, was caught soliciting gay sex in a YMCA, Deke DeLoach worked directly with the president in dealing with the backlash.
One might think that when Richard Nixon ascended to the presidency in 1968, he would have found an ally in Hoover, given their shared anti-Communism.
Hoover continued to provide a wealth of political intelligence to Nixon through a formal program called INLET.
However, Hoover also felt vulnerable given intensified public protest due to the Vietnam War and public focus on his actions at the FBI.
Hoover held back in using intrusive surveillance such as wiretaps, microphones and break-ins as he had in the past.
He resisted Nixon’s attempts to centralize intelligence coordination in the White House, especially when Nixon asked that the FBI use intrusive surveillance to find White House leaks.
Not satisfied, the Nixon administration created its own leak-stopping unit: the White House plumbers – which ended in the Watergate scandal.
Not until after Hoover’s death did Americans learn of his abuses of authority.
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And here we are, all over again!
Real big surprise!
Not.
Jack Trump says
I don’t understand why you have any questions. We learned how political dirty tricks start, and how they are covered up, 2 generations ago. History taught us that with Richard Nixon. This is 10,000 times worse than Watergate, but it’s the same kind of deal with the same idea for an investigative line. FOLLOW THE MONEY.
Prior to becoming Sec State, Ms. Clinton was ordered by Pres. Obama to either shut down The Clinton Foundation, or completely recuse herself from it. She completely agreed to do so to get the job, and then did not do so. Before she took the office Obama knew all the money was dirty, and he then turned his back to get in on the action. The corruption does go right to the top. For a community organizer from Chicago that’s a heckuva house he paid cash for in the swamp since leaving his office.
Bill and Hillary took in hundreds of millions of $ into their foundation, they did not donate it to charity, and it’s gone. Hmmmmmmm…………But Obama did not stop The Clintons from helping themselves. He knows she was selling access to deals within her office Quid pro quos by the dozens, and they were all pissed when she lost, because the flow of $ from the foreign nations stopped. Which is when the foreign nations got pissed, because Trump won’t act on the deals, for the other countries, that Sec. Clinton put forth.
Then her server……..everyone in the swamp knew exactly what she was doing, because just like our e mails, hers left a trail as well. So far she has gotten away with what she destroyed, and those e-mails are back and forth to all in the swamp blatantly constructing this conspiracy.
Obama didn’t “bite” on the dossier. He planned it right along with Bill and Hillary and their A.G. on the tarmac, and the CIA and FBI. He was new to the whole scene, knew dirty tricks take place, and had grown jaded and thought this was all normal, all routine D.C. politics. Hillary had the $ to buy it and distribute it, the dossier, AND she had the money to buy the prez, the A.G, FBI and CIA. What ? They all helped her because she was the Queen of Hearts ? or was she lining their pockets ?
The judge from the foreign intelligence service act court that granted the FISA warrants that went after Carter Page that allowed herself to be misled, AND STILL hasn’t called for an investigation……..it all leads back to Mueller too. The destruction of lives for virtually no reason…..Roger Stone for one…..At the end Mueller didn’t even do the one job he was hired to do. The obstruction decision…..he walked away from it to muddy the waters…….and Adam Schiff and Nancy Pelosi……blatant lies after lies after misdirection…….and why didn’t Mueller complete the job ? He wasn’t hired just to look at Trump. He was hired to discover Russian meddling within the election, and even with all that was uncovered on the democrat side, he didn’t look at it one bit. Mueller wasn’t partisan ? The money he got on the side, in my opinion, kept him from looking at Clinton’s crimes ? So a retired A.G. in Utah was hired to look into “the Clinton Side” and he hasn’t been heard from ? Mueller, in trying to protect his own reputation, threw that action out to Utah, so democrats wouldn’t blame Mueller, and hopefully the entire idea/investigation would be swept under the rug by time and distance.
Now we even know the Ukrainian Gov. is investigating “OVER THERE” some people who have genuinely interfered in our 2016 election, and are jailing them. In doing so they broke their own laws and are being held accountable for it. There’s the irony of ironies. THE RUSSIANS are apparently going to hold operatives accountable for these crimes and protect our election system, BEFORE WE ARE ??????
Heaven help us, and even that would be mighty lucky now that we wish to legalize infanticide…..
FOLLOW THE MONEY
From 1st appearances, our new A.G. Barr is going to do the right thing and get to the bottom of this. These people committed felonies to attempt to find our President guilty of treason. A crime punishable by death. It doesn’t get any more serious than that. The democrats got caught with their pants down conspiring to do all this, and then they were caught just piling the lies deeper to try to cover up their initial conspiracy. An attempt at a Presidential coup from within. Prison is too good for them for what they have done to our Constitution and Declaration of Independence.
Hoods over their heads. Backs to the wall and tied to a post. Pull the trigger and feed them to the sharks. Even that is too good for them. You got a problem with that ? I don’t. Give me the gun. I’ll scream at the scoundrels just before I pull the trigger. “You took our Liberty so we give you death”. It truly is what they deserve. I will certainly sleep better knowing that future such scoundrels have seen a true deterrent to their plans.
Paul Plante says
With respect to the Federal Bureau of Investigation being a federal police force whose actions or non-actions are guided by political considerations, we have as follows from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation itself, to wit:
“We owe Paul Plante.”
“We owe him, as we owe Ward Stone, for trying to keep the public faith.”
Those are the opening lines of an op-ed in the Albany, New York Times Union newspaper in 1989 which is a part of a Federal Bureau of Investigation file entitled “ALLEGATIONS OF CORRUPTION IN RENSSELAER COUNTY GOVERNMENT, RELATING TO LAND DEVELOPMENT, CORRUPTION OF STATE AND LOCAL OFFICIALS,” which investigation I was an integral part of, given that the FBI investigation into corruption in NYS and Rensselaer County and the Town of Poestenkill in Rensselaer County was based on an investigation I had conducted as a New York State associate public health engineer in NYS with Public Health Law enforcement authority.
That op-ed went on to state that I was now an ex-Rensselaer County employee, and the reason given in the TU op-ed in the FBI files states as follows:
“Everybody agrees that he’s a good engineer, but maybe too zealous, too rigid interpreting the rules.”
“He says he may be too aware of the public trust on his shoulders.”
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Now, seriously, people, how many Harvard Juris Doctor degrees do you have to possess to make heads or tails from those for sentences, especially the one that mentioned “trying to keep the public faith?”
How about this instead – not trying to accept bribes, as was expected and demanded of me, in exchange for rubber-stamping as approved residential subdivision plans that did not meet the codes, and not trying to commit honest services fraud, a federal offense, by turning my back on my responsibilities to the people of Rensselaer County as a NYS licensed engineer and associate public health engineer, which is what I told the FBI when they questioned me, which they did several times in that matter.
That op-ed in the FBI files which was put there by the FBI itself to keep the Special Agent in Charge (SAC) in Albany, New York informed as to what was going on in the corruption investigation, which was turned off like a light bulb by the U.S. attorney for the northern district of New York after the name of a prominent and powerful Rensselaer County state senator came into the FBI investigation as a result of my investigation into fraud and endemic corruption in the Rensselaer County Department of Health, continued as follows:
“So, I’m not deluding myself that the watchdog press will hold Rensselaer County accountable down the road to what happens now that Paul Plante is gone.”
“Regrettably, there are already signs that the much-assailed county Health Department is doing a belly-up, adopting the laissez-faire attitude of 10 years ago.”
“Which means more polluted wells and the stench of bad septic systems.”
“Not from the Victor Gushes or Steve Andersons developing the top of the line – they are too publicly visible – but from well-connected rip-off artists who mysteriously will get necessary permits and paperwork from the county the way they used to, with bogus inspections, or none at all, for who knows what considerations.”
“Going down with Plante, unfortunately, is a hard-nosed system of checks and balances on development in the county.”
“Who, if anyone, I wonder, will step in to save the county?
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The answer to that is nobody – and certainly not the FBI, which takes us back to that op-ed, as follows:
“Back in 1983, he (Plante) heard that the neighboring Zweig farm, with a chicken barn on it, was going to be subdivided into apartments.”
“He (Plante) went to the zoning board meeting and was shown a letter from the county attesting to the existing septic system in the barn.”
“A chicken coop with toilets?”
“This was something new.”
“Plante persisted.”
“A red-faced county allowed as how maybe there wasn’t a septic system at all, and suddenly the developer had to adhere to the rules.”
“But Plante couldn’t stop wondering: How could the county screw up so badly?”
“Who was watching the store?”
“In 1986, because – ironically – of an innovative Industrial Development Agency proposal pitched to (Rensselaer County Executive John L. “Smiling Jack”) Buono, Plante was named to mind the store.”
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And that is how I came to be involved in a Federal Bureau of Investigation investigation in corrupt Rensselaer County in the corrupt ****-hole of New York state.
Right around the time that op-ed appeared in the Times Union, while walking down a sidewalk in Albany, I happened to come face-to-face with the very same FBI agent involved in the investigation, and what he told me then was that he was not supposed to talk with me, or be seen with me, that I had powerful political enemies, that I was in big trouble for running my mouth and blowing the whistle and dropping the dime of these powerful political people, the FBI was not my friend, and his advice to me was to run – get out of Rensselaer County and New York state and go somewhere where nobody had ever heard of me, and to not come back if I knew what was good for me.
And that is how easy it is to become an enemy of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Paul Plante says
If one reads the propaganda put out by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation in its professionally-done press releases, one come across the following, to wit:
Public corruption, the FBI’s top criminal investigative priority, poses a fundamental threat to our national security and way of life.
It can affect everything from how well our borders are secured and our neighborhoods protected to how verdicts are handed down in courts to how public infrastructure such as roads and schools are built.
It also takes a significant toll on the public’s pocketbooks by siphoning off tax dollars—it is estimated that public corruption costs the U.S. government and the public billions of dollars each year.
The FBI is uniquely situated to combat corruption, with the skills and capabilities to run complex undercover operations and surveillance.
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Now, doesn’t that sound all grand and glorious?
My goodness, people, with the FBI doing all of that to keep us safe from corruption, you would think we wouldn’t have any at all, but if that were so, then how could what happened in New York State and Rensselaer County in New York State and the Town of Poestenkill in Rensselaer County as described above have happened, and more to the point of this thread, how could what happened with the Russian probe have happened, where it appears the corruption is in the FBI itself?
Getting back to the FBI propaganda, or just plain BULL****, we have:
Overview
The Bureau’s Public Corruption program focuses on:
* Investigating violations of federal law by public officials at the federal, state, and local levels of government;
* Overseeing the nationwide investigation of allegations of fraud related to federal government procurement, contracts, and federally funded programs;
* Combating the threat of public corruption along the nation’s borders and points of entry in order to decrease the country’s vulnerability to drug and weapons trafficking, alien smuggling, espionage, and terrorism.
* Addressing environmental crime, election fraud, and matters concerning the federal government procurement, contracts, and federally funded programs.
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With respect to this thread, we have this:
In 2008, the FBI created the International Corruption Unit (ICU) to oversee the increasing number of investigations involving global fraud against the U.S. government and the corruption of federal public officials outside of the continental U.S. involving U.S. funds, persons, businesses, etc.
The ICU’s tasks include:
* Overseeing the Bureau’s Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and antitrust cases;
* Maintaining operational oversight of several International Contract Corruption Task Forces, which investigate and prosecute individuals and firms engaged in bribery, illegal gratuities, contract extortion, bid rigging, collusion, conflicts of interest, product substitution, items and/or services invoiced without delivery, theft, diversion of goods, and individual and corporate conspiracies on every level of U.S. government operations.
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HMMMMMM, since 2008, you say!
Do tell.
Sooooooo, then if Trump was up to all this hinky stuff that BUMBLING GOOFBALL ex-lawyer too stupid to keep his dumb *** out of prison Michael Cohen told the Democrats and Mueller was going on, then how did the FBI not know of any of it until told by Cohen?
Moving right along:
No other law enforcement agency has attained the kind of success the FBI has achieved in combating corruption.
This success is due largely to the cooperation and coordination from a number of federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies to combat public corruption.
These partnerships include, but are not limited to the Department of Justice, Agency Offices of Inspector General; law enforcement agencies’ internal affairs divisions; federal, state and local law enforcement and regulatory investigative agencies; and state and county prosecutor’s offices.
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Except in Rensselaer County, that was not true, at all – in Rensselaer County, and by extension the State of New York and the Town of Poestenkill, they did not “combat” corruption; to the contrary, they protected the corruption on the orders of the politically-connected U.S. attorney for the Northern District of New York, and in that process, in the vernacular of that trade, I got “shopped,” which is to say, sold out and dumped by the side of the road with my protection of law stripped from me as if I were the felon, instead of the head of the local law enforcement and regulatory investigative agency in Rensselaer County charged by the New York State Commissioner of Heal;th to clean up the endemic corruption in the Rensselaer County Department of Health.
And that thought brings to mind someone named John Connally, and I don’t mean “Texas John,” the American politician who served as the 39th Governor of Texas and as the 61st United States Secretary of the Treasury, beginning his career as a Democrat but switched to Republican in 1973.
I am talking about John Joseph Connolly Jr., born August 1, 1940, the former FBI agent who was convicted of racketeering, obstruction of justice, and murder charges stemming from his relationship with James “Whitey” Bulger, Steve Flemmi, and the Winter Hill Gang.
As the FBI handler for Bulger and Flemmi, Connolly had been protecting them from prosecution by supplying Bulger with information about possible attempts to catch them, and he tipped Bulger that Edward Brian Halloran was testifying to FBI about his murder of Louis Litif, which led to murder of Halloran and Michael Donahue.
Connolly was indicted on December 22, 1999, on charges of alerting Bulger and Flemmi to investigations, falsifying FBI reports to cover their crimes, and accepting bribes.
In 2000, he was charged with additional racketeering-related offenses.
He was convicted on the racketeering charges in 2002 and sentenced to ten years in federal prison.
In 2008, he was convicted on state charges of second-degree murder in Florida and sentenced to 40 years in prison.
He was suspected of tipping off Bulger that a former business associate, a young James “Gentleman Jim” Mulvey in Spokane and another associate in Miami were being investigated for their ties to the Winter Hill Gang; Bulger ordered them murdered to keep them from talking.
Connolly was released from federal prison on June 28, 2011, and transferred to Florida State Prison to serve the remainder of his sentence for his 2008 second degree murder conviction.
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Hmmmmmmm.
Yeah, right!