Crimes Committed By FBI Officials and Agents During National Security Operations?Why Frank Keating Should Not Be A Vice President or Cabinet Official - July 20, 2000
Source: Personal Research
Published: November 6, 2000
Author: Patrick B. Briley
FBI Agent Alleges Federal Workers Ordered to Violate Federal Laws During National Security Operation: A Review of Alleged Crimes by FBI Officials and Workers in FBI Operations Since 1992.
The following analysis is based in part on an article “FBI Agent Sues To Report Misconduct” written by AP reporter Michael Sniffen and published in the Washington Post on November 3, 2000.
A veteran FBI agent, Joseph Rogoskey, filed a Federal lawsuit on November 3, 2000 alleging that Federal workers were ordered by US government officials to violate Federal laws during a top secret, national security operation. Rogoskey’s attorney Stephen Kohn stated that the lawsuit “involves what they (Federal workers) were ordered and permitted by the government to do in this operation.'' Rogoskey claims he witnessed the violation of law and criminal misconduct by the Federal workers.
Rogoskey’s lawsuit asks a US District court to permit Rogoskey to transmit his allegations to Congressional oversight committees as well as Clinton and Madeline Albright. Rogoskey has been denied permission by FBI director, Louis Freeh and Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder to send his allegations to Congress, Clinton and Albright.
Rogoskey also appears to be seeking permission because he perceives a serious conflict of interest by the FBI and DOJ in investigating and deciding whether or not his allegations can be transmitted to Congress. Stephen Kohn underscored these concerns by stating ``keeping whistle-blower allegations within the institution that authorized the misconduct does not serve the public interest and raises grave constitutional questions.''
Kohn’s statement leaves little doubt that Rogoskey is saying that the FBI and possibly DOJ is the “institution” which ordered and permitted Federal workers to commit crimes during the operation.
Freeh and Holder have not given Rogoskey any assurances that his allegations are being investigated. There has been no indication that the FBI or DOJ has corrected any problems by taking disciplinary actions and filing charges against those government officials and Federal workers Rogoskey say were involved.
Freeh and Holder act like they are hiding something from Congress. What crimes by which Federal officials and workers in which national security operation do Freeh and Holder want kept from Congress and the American people??
The Senate Judiciary Committee of Congress has direct Constitutional authority and oversight responsibilities for the conduct of Federal officials and workers in the DOJ and the FBI. This is the Committee that Freeh and Holder would be trying to keep Rogoskey from talking to.
It is believed that the FBI routinely lies to Congress (“plays them like a harp”) and withholds much information about FBI operations. Assistant FBI Director Danny Coulson, a Freeh deputy involved in Waco, Ruby Ridge and OKC, publicly expressed absolute contempt for Congressional oversight committees at his book signing I attended in OKC in March 1999.
Another interesting aspect of the Rogoskey lawsuit is that his attorney Stephen Kohn previously defended Frederick Whitehurst against unethical retaliation by the FBI similar to the retaliation now suffered by Rogoskey. Whitehurst had revealed FBI perjury and fabrication of evidence by the FBI crime lab in high profile cases including the OKC bombing case and another case that catapulted Freeh to fame involving the bombing of a judge in Georgia.
And according to a Washington Post article “Former FBI Workers File Whistleblower Suit “ by Michael Grunwald dated October 20, 1998, three other FBI workers sued the Federal government for FBI and DOJ failure to enforce a 1989 law that protects whistleblowers who complain about misconduct at the FBI.
The plaintiffs were former FBI agent Thomas M. Chamberlin, former FBI chemist Jorge L. Villanueva and former FBI staffer Cheryl J. Whitehurst. They claimed that they were fired or forced out of the bureau for reporting misconduct by their colleagues. Whitehurst also said she was harassed because she is married to Frederic Whitehurst, a chemist whose allegations launched a major investigation of the FBI crime laboratory.
What is important is that Rogoskey is claiming FBI officials and Federal workers under their control have committed Federal crimes. Although it has not yet been publicly revealed what operation was underway when the crimes occurred, it is possible the operation was either a counter intelligence, a counter terrorism or espionage operation. There has been corrupt FBI behavior reported in these operational areas since 1992.
Rogoskey says he promptly reported the crimes he observed in 1997. It is not known whether or not the crimes Rogoskey observed and reported had been associated with an FBI operation that had started before 1997. Crimes could have started in the operation before Rogoskey observed them or the crimes could have occurred in 1997 to cover up parts of the operation that may have been conducted before 1997.
Rogoskey’s assertions are only the tip of the iceberg. His story is only one example among many that points to the corrupt and illegal conduct by FBI and DOJ officials and agents in many other cases where national security is used as an excuse for them to violate the law and withhold evidence from Congress and the American people.
Corrupt FBI behavior has been reported in the sieges at Waco and Ruby Ridge, in the bombings of TWA 800, the embassies in Kenya and Tanzania and the WTC and Murrah building in OKC. Corrupt FBI conduct was also involved in the loss of nuclear technology at US national labs including the Win Ho Lee case.
In the Win Ho Lee case, an FBI agent admitted lying repeatedly under oath to the court about the details of the FBI and DOJ investigation of Lee. No action was taken by the court or by the FBI or DOJ against the FBI agent. Lee’s wife had been an FBI informant for several years. The FBI followed Lee for years over seas and even allowed him to hire a research assistant from mainland China to work at Los Alamos National Lab with no security clearances during the time the FBI knew he was a suspect.
The FBI also participated in covering up allegations made to them by Army intelligence of Chinese espionage in the SDI program at Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque, New Mexico. And the FBI coverer up and facilitated the transfer of SDI technology to the Russians at Kirtland AFB. Both cover-ups started in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s at a time Rogoskey was involved in top secret covert operations for the FBI.
In 1997 ABC Nightline reported that the FBI had deliberately helped an American steal and sell blueprints and manufacturing processes for Intel’s Pentium processor to the North Koreans, Russian and Chinese. The FBI admitted their corrupt and illegal operation to ABC but tried to justify it by claiming it was necessary to gain intelligence on Cuban and Castro operations inside the US.
In the OKC bombing case, FBI agents falsified and withheld evidence, lied to police officers, lied to the courts, threatened witnesses, falsified their own 320 interview reports and helped Middle Eastern suspects escape. The OKC bombing case is believed to have been a failed national security operation involving Middle Eastern men and FBI operatives and informants.
The FBI told Herb Johnson, the Chief of Staff for Senator James Inhofe, that the DOJ wanted the FBI to keep the public from finding out that the FBI and DOJ knew Middle Eastern men were involved in the OKC bombing. Two deputy sheriffs have publicly stated that Earnest Istook told them that a Federal government operation had failed to stop the OKC bombing even though the FBI had been tipped on April 9, 1995. Congressman Dave McCurdy, former Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, wrote in the Oklahoma Gazette that the FBI had informed him and shown him training films of a local Hamas terrorist cell that had demolition experts capable of helping do the OKC bombing.
In the bombings of the WTC, the embassies and the Murrah Building in OKC, the FBI had detailed advanced warnings from Middle Eastern informants, yet the FBI did not stop the bombings. These bombings involved national security operations with Federal agents, operatives and informants.
A major FBI operative informant in all these bombings was Ali Mohamed who also set up and trained terrorist cells in the US for Bin Laden while he as an FBI operative from 1992 to 1998, during the time Rogoskey says he observed crimes. The US entered into a secret plea bargain arrangement last month with Ali Mohamed after he was indicted, perhaps to buy his silence over corrupt and negligent FBI operations and policies.
One national security operation in the US run by the FBI was described by Louis Freeh to Congress when he testified in support of anti-terrorism legislation. Freeh bragged that the FBI had helped populate three terrorist cells in Texas, California and Virginia with known Middle Eastern terrorists. In an article I wrote earlier this year, I have documented that FBI agents involved in counter terrorism operations have discussed the corrupt FBI policy of allowing known Middle Eastern terrorists to circulate for years within the US to track them.
In November 1996, on the day before Thanksgiving, Mr. Robert Mullado, a DOJ attorney, contacted me about my conversations with the law firm of Stephen Kohn and Colapinto concerning the OKC bombing and Frederick Whitehurt's allegations about FBI perjury and the fabrication of evidence by the FBI crime lab in the OKC bombing. This is the same law firm that currently represents Rogoskey.
Mullado worked for the special committee set up by Reno to investigate (cover up) the Whirtehurst allegations about the FBI crime lab. He also called me back a few weeks later. His phone number was 203-616-4766.
Mullado was not interested in my allegations, but instead was trying to get information about what Whitehurst's attorneys might have told me to help the DOJ coverup the problems at the FBI crime lab and to attempt to discredit Whitehurst. This was patently corrupt and unethical on Mullado’s part and on the DOJ's part.
I told Mullado I did not hear or seek any details of the Whitehurst case from the law firm, but instead had informed them of what I had learned about FBI misconduct and corruption in the OKC bombing case through my own efforts.
I challenged Mullado and asserted that the DOJ had illegally learned of my calls via a phone tap or an informant in the law firm. Mullado did not provide an adequate explanation of how he and the DOJ had learned of my calls. I informed the law firm and they were quite surprised.
You will learn from the articles I have written (listed below) that the FBI has repeatedly threatened me and my wife over what I have learned about FBI and DOJ corruption in the OKC bombing. Around the same time as Mullado’s calls, the FBI unsuccessfully tried to dig up dirt on me in interviews with General Benton Partin and the former Pentagon terrorism advisor, Jesse Clear. I have complained to the FBI, the DOJ and my Senator, James Inhofe about the FBI and DOJ illegal behavior toward me and my wife.
It is because of the DOJ misconduct in the OKC bombing case toward me and Whitehurst and his attorneys as well as the corrupt activities of the FBI and CIA in the OKC bombing case, that I believe it is conceivable Rogoskey may know something about the illegal Federal actions in the OKC bombing. Rogoskey may know something about OKC because of his involvement in top secret, covert national security operations run by the FBI during the time he was there, from 1987 to 1998 even if his lawsuit has nothing to do about the OKC bombing.
Congress should ask Rogoskey to relate all his experiences in all the corrupt FBI national security operations the FBI has run at least since 1987 when Rogoskey was at the FBI, especially the ones I have described in this article.
The FBI and DOJ are out of control and they have become a government unto themselves that operates outside of the law. Congress has failed to exercise proper oversight over Freeh and Reno, the FBI and the DOJ. Even if the FBI and DOJ lie to Congress, that is no excuse for Congress not to get to the bottom of it and to remove those responsible from the FBI and DOJ. The abuses of the FBI and DOJ threaten the civil liberties of all American citizens and put them at risk from terrorist attacks inside the US.
There are some who have promoted replacing Louis Freeh as FBI Director or Janet Reno as Attorney General with the governor of Oklahoma, Frank Keating. Keating once was an FBI agent who kept track of terrorists on the West Coast. Frank Keating as a replacement would be a bad idea and would only replace one fox with another fox to guard the hen house.
Keating helped cover up FBI misconduct in the OKC bombing case. Keating publicly blocked a forensic analysis of the Murrah Building by agreeing to have it brought down too early before any complete analysis could be done. Keating attacked many in the public who had legitimate questions about Federal handling of the bombing, before, during and after the bombing.
Keating’s law associate and heavy campaign contributor ($100,000 donation), Gary Richardson filed a Federal lawsuit against KFORTV in OKC soon after Keating publicly attacked the TV station. KFORTV had gathered evidence of Middle Eastern involvement in the OKC bombing, had recovered the license plate from McVeigh’s car and was suing the FBI and DOJ for surveillance tapes. The Richardson lawsuit effectively shutdown the KFORTV investigation. It was widely reported earlier this year that Richardson had been placed on the OK state payroll for work he did not perform.
For more details of Keating’s misconduct in the OKC bombing case please refer to my article “Why Frank Keating Should Not Be A Vice President or Cabinet Official” dated July 20, 2000 and posted on the FreeRepublic.
For other articles I have written on the OKC bombing please refer to the following posts on the FreeRepublic:
Was the OKC Bombing a Failed FBI Sting Operation? “Robert Jacques” May Know. (9/26/2000)
Three John Does in the OKC Bombing Were Protected FBI Informants (9/22/2000)
“Others Known” to the FBI in the OKC Bombing Case (9/19/2000)
FBI Operative Ali Mohammed Writes Bin Laden Terrorist Manual
While America Burns, Senator Inhofe Fiddles
1 Posted on 11/06/2000 15:31:11 PST by OKCSubmariner