The plot would be comical if not for its disturbing outcome: A man entrapped by FBI undercover agents and informants in a dubious plan to build a so-called X-ray gun is now housed in one of the most notorious prisons in the world. The inmate, Glendon Crawford, a...
Criminal Justice
Michael Whiteley’s Injustice
by Russ Bedard | Jan 9, 2024 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Editor's Note: The case of Michael Whiteley was previously reported on by the Libertarian Institute's late managing editor, William Norman Grigg. I'm the voice of Michael Whiteley; a slight stutter when frustrated, a laugh rarely and irritation always just below the...
Biden: Vote for Me or Hitler Wins
by Jim Bovard | Jan 8, 2024 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles, Politics
“Endless hysteria will keep you free,” said none of the Founding Fathers. But President Joe Biden missed that message before his absurdly overheated speech last Friday near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. Biden draped himself in Revolutionary War virtue as he demanded...
Militia Leader Targeted by FBI is out of Prison, Still Fighting Conviction
by Ken Silva | Dec 18, 2023 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
About a decade before the FBI infiltrated Midwest militias and fomented a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, the bureau targeted Alaska’s militias as part of an apparent attempt to disrupt what was once a thriving Tea Party movement in that state. The...
FBI = Following Biden’s Instructions?
by Jim Bovard | Oct 30, 2023 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Does “FBI” now stand for “Following Biden’s Instructions”? The FBI is doing backflips to boost Joe Biden’s re-election campaign. Unfortunately, federal courts don’t recognize law enforcement shenanigans as a violation of the Voting Rights Act. The FBI is categorizing...
FBI Agent Reveals Smoking-Gun Evidence of Right-Wing Entrapment Operation
by Ken Silva | Oct 23, 2023 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles, OKC
In the 1990s, the FBI ran an operation entailing undercover agents and informants posing as right-wing extremists. Code-named Patriot Conspiracy, or PATCON, the operation was kept secret until well into the 2000s. After being made public, FBI informant John Matthews,...
TGIF: Why Is Government Stuff Called “Public”?
by Sheldon Richman | Oct 13, 2023 | Criminal Justice, Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Government facilities and services -- which are actually disservices overall -- are called "public" while services that are efficiently responsive to the public are dubbed "private." Why is that? That way of framing the distinction could be intended to subtly...
U.S. Counter-Terror Operator Vanishes after Claiming to Identify January 6 Pipe Bomber
by Ken Silva | Oct 12, 2023 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
On June 8, 2022, a Twitter account linked to U.S. counterterrorism operator Jade Parker claimed to have identified the suspect who placed pipe bombs outside the RNC and DNC headquarters ahead of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Hill protest-turned-riot. “I have a very good...