Posted on 03/18/2002 3:06:32 AM PST by Lloyd227
Edited on 09/03/2002 4:50:07 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
On March 1, FBI agents had a clear plan to catch a man wanted in a bank robbery. What unfolded was a remarkable series of mix-ups with a near-fatal outcome.
The order from an FBI commander to a SWAT team waiting outside a Glen Burnie 7-Eleven was simple and direct.
"Follow the red car."
To FBI Special Agent Christopher Braga, it signaled that the man inside the car, the one wearing the white baseball cap, was the bank robbery suspect agents had been tracking. Braga, with other members of the elite FBI team, moved in to make the arrest.
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
The FBI has always put most its efforts into self promotion and PR.
I'm afraid someone or something IS leaning on the Sun however to nudge this event towards the FBI's sanitized version of what happened. The sickening details in earlier stories are suspiciously absent.
For many years I thought it was only incompetence, but based on my personal experience over the past 8/9 years I know now it is simply corruption to the core,especially in the presence of political and/or public corruption.
FBI agents remind me of con-men, only type of person that can con you is somebody you trust,(confidence man).
I think most of the corruption tends to concentrate at the top through a deliberate process of distillation, whereby the corrupt SES's control 100% the promotion into their ranks, and can deep select only those corrupt sycophants who will "play ball their way".
This has led to great demoralization among the critical middle grades, who get out in droves, leaving the FBI composed of "fast track" butt boys, corrupt seniors, disillusioned middle grades, and inexperienced gung ho new guys.
Are you familiar with the FBI's "Senior Executive Service", the "Super supergrades"? This clique and it's inner politics is a crucial part of my novel, as a passed over and locked out Deputy Asst Director comes up with his own plan to promote his own unit and himself in an effort to bypass his promotion lockout by the SES. He initiates a series of false flag acts of "domestic terrorism" blamed on "right wing militias" for which he holds "the antidote" in the form of his own experimental ATF SRT unit. I have posted two chapter excerpts, "The Raid" and "The Checkpoint". Perhaps you can help me later on in vetting the SES jargon, terminolgy and structure.
There was another FBI scandal in South Florida recently where a drunk off duty FBI agent was driving the wrong way on I-95 and killed two brothers in a crash and then the FBI tried to cover it up and blame the crash on the two dead brothers,and when the FL. Highway Patrol (FHP) went to question the FBI agent in the hospital the FBI posted an agent outside his door and wouldn't let the FHP talk to him.
Eventually the FHP figured out what really happened and FL. Gov. Bush made the FHP apologize to the family of the dead brothers, but to this day the FBI has never offered an apology to the family.
Basically what you are saying is true,corruption at the FBI or DOJ is simply a career opportunity.
At the FBI the more corrupt you are,the more rapid your promotion, because the politicians know that they can depend on you to conceal,promote,and facilitate any type of criminal activity that they (politicians and/or lawyers)and their cronies in the private sector want to engage in.
The most politically powerful and corrupt are the U.S. Attorneys, far more powerful than any FBI agent.
Control the U.S. Attorneys and you control who gets prosecuted for federal felony offenses.
This is what the former U.S. Attorney for Maryland, Lynne Battaglia was clearly up to.
The FBI agents know what this is all about,if you don't like the corruption at the FBI you have two simple options, shut up or quit.
I'm not up to speed on the FBI employees that you mention "the Senior Executive Service".
My dealings have been mostly with SAC & SA.
I started dealing with the FBI as far back as mid to late 1994 and here it is 2002 and it really doesn't surprise me that the FBI Anti-terrorist unit and the FBI Public Corruption Units are absolute failures.
But unfortunately it comports 100% with the worst tendencies ingrained in human nature when it comes to the abuse of power.
That bears repeating.
Yep, because it's absolutely true. Those who aid and abet will discover that their lives will be 'nasty, brutish and short.'
Christopher Braga bump.
and another bump, remember the name, and list this one in the hall of shame.
As for honor, the fbi agents that have been arrested for spying speak for themselves.
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