SWAT-like FBI team with assault rifles at the ready arrests Roger Stone in pre-dawn raid
At one time I had the utmost respect for the FBI. That was in the J. Edgar Hoover era. I even had a couple of FBI buddies who sponsored me for membership in the Elks Lodge. That respect began to wane with every passing day after Hoover’s death. On Friday, I lost what little respect I had left for the FBI.
Roger Stone was a former longtime confidant of President Trump. Special Counsel Robert Mueller obtained a multi-count federal indictment against Stone related to the Wikileaks matter. One would expect a couple of FBI agents or U.S. Marshals, or even a couple of sheriff’s deputies to serve the arrest warrant at Stone’s Florida home some time during the daylight or early evening hours.. But that is not what happened.
In the predawn hours on Friday, a SWAT-like FBI team wearing full-body armor with assault rifles at the ready, raided the Florida home of the 66-year-old Stone. An agent pounded on the door and shouted, “FBI! Open the door! We have a warrant!” Stone opened the door, and with a bunch of flashlights beaming up his face, admitted who he was. He was led away in custody, the arrest having been made without a whimper.
The FBI appears to have gone bonkers. Stone was not an armed fugitive. He was not one of drug lord El Chapo’s henchmen. He was not a dangerous Mafia mobster. He was simply a political operative.
If Stone goes to prison, he will not serve time at the supermax prison in Colorado where Islamic terrorists, Mexican drug cartel members, ‘Unabomber’ Ted Kaczynski and other dangerous criminals are doing time. Stone will serve his time at a minimum-security prison along with millionaire white collar lawbreakers.
I cannot fathom what possessed the FBI to conduct such an atrocious raid.
2 comments:
I lost respect for the FBI long before you did, Howie.
In the mid 90's a hoard of FBI agents descended upon Corcoran State Prison, where I worked until I transferred out in '93. They went out to the yards and housing units and arrested several of my old partners. They cuffed some of these officers up out in the units and then marched them out, shackled, in front of the inmates. Then they locked them in our visiting room holding cells for hours and interrogated them one by one in violation of their POBAR rights. (Yes, correctional officers have rights too). No attorneys or union representatives were allowed to be present during these interrogations, despite numerous requests.
27 of my co-workers were terminated from employment that day. 7 were charged with serious crimes.
But wait. Not a damn one of them was ever convicted of anything. Not a damn one of my old buddies was even found to be in violation of any institutional policies. And ALL of them were offered their jobs back after the investigations and trials were complete and the charges were shown to be bogus.
It seems that the charges leveled by the FBI at the behest of several lying inmates and their lying attorneys were fabricated. Gee. Inmates and their attorneys lied. What a surprise. No, the real surprise here was the pain and loss inflicted upon my old partners by a shoddy witch hunt of an investigation based on mere accusations by convicted felons.
So, no love here for the FBI Bunch of ass wipes, in my opinion.
His deaf wife might have thrown one of the dogs at the FBI. That could have been dangerous.
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