[hanamizu]

“...No matter. Anything you can say can be twisted twenty different ways.”

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And since the FBI is the only police force I’ve ever heard of that does not make a recording of the interview, rather relying on agents’ notes of the conversation, the official record is what the agents thought they heard you say.

[NorthMountain]

the official record is what the agents thought they heard you say.

The official record is what the agents made up out of thin air ...

[Paladin2]

“The use of the FD-302 has been criticized as a form of institutionalized perjury due to FBI guidelines that prohibit recordings of interviews.

Prominent defense lawyers and former FBI agents have stated that they believe that the method of interviewing by the FBI is designed to expose interviewees to potential perjury or false statement criminal charges when the interviewee is deposed in a grand jury and has to contradict the official record presented by the FBI.

They have also stated that perjury by FBI agents allows the FBI to use the leverage of a potential criminal charge to turn an innocent witness into an informant.[5][6][7]”

“Not a joke...”