Whose M.O., and who benefits?
Posted on 06/07/2005 10:10:33 AM PDT by GlockGrrl
Behind the Lone Terrorist, a Pack Mentality By Mike German Sunday, June 5, 2005; Page B01 The FBI has long maintained that Timothy McVeigh, who was executed in 2001 for the Oklahoma City bombing that claimed 168 lives, was the prototypical "lone wolf" terrorist and that anyone implicated in the bombing conspiracy is behind bars. But old loose ends and troubling new revelations about McVeigh's association with white supremacist groups have led many people to wonder whether a wider conspiracy was behind the bombing that took place just over 10 years ago. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, a California Republican, is considering holding hearings to try to answer these lingering questions. What he is likely to discover is not a disagreement over the facts, but a fundamental misperception of how most extremist groups operate.....
Author's e-mail: mger678@hotmail.com Mike German was an FBI agent specializing in domestic counterterrorism from 1988 to 2004.
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He probably only divulged his plans and schedule to one or two trusted associates for this reason.
These organizations never corporately plan anything on a grand scale because they know the FBI is watching.
something is amiss when a serial killer in CT gets executed 22 years after the crime - only because HE waived further appeals, and McVeigh, who is arrested, tried, cionvicted, sentenced, and executed within five years. nobody can answer why the rush.
This is a frightening article because it gives such a clear insight into the thinking of certain Federal agents who have an insufficient understanding of Constitutional protections - namely in how they give lip service to principles such as freedom of speech and freedom of association, yet they can find that an utterance of "if you wish to, uh, do anything yourself, you can." as being clear evidence of conspiracy to solicit murder. By that (lack of a clear) standard, much of the free and wide ranging debate that goes on in American society (or on FR, for that matter), can and will be criminalized, as long as people like Mr. German are given free rein in positions of power and authority.
Whose M.O., and who benefits?
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