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...
Criminal Justice
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...
TGIF: A Market for Law?
by Sheldon Richman | Oct 6, 2023 | Criminal Justice, Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Great part of that order which reigns among mankind is not the effect of government. It has its origin in the principles of society and the natural constitution of man. It existed prior to government, and would exist if the formality of government was abolished....
How an FBI Informant Created One of Largest Nazi Groups in U.S. History
by Ken Silva | Sep 25, 2023 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
An FBI informant cofounded one of the largest and oldest neo-Nazi organizations in U.S. history: the National Socialist Movement, a group connected to numerous crimes and violent events, including the deadly 2017 Charlottesville “Unite the Right” rally, according to...
Whitmer Kidnap Judge: Defense Can’t Cite FBI Entrapment Efforts
by Ken Silva | Aug 28, 2023 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
During Tuesday’s opening statements at the trial of three men accused of aiding the 2020 alleged militia plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, defense attorney Bill Barnett made accurate statements about an FBI informant involved in the case—describing how...
Six Solutions to Fix Policing in America
by Michael Reeves | Aug 24, 2023 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Just over three years ago, in the wake of George Floyd's murder by police in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020 , riots erupted across America and protests even emerged in Europe. Time may not heal all wounds, but it can give perspective. And now may be an opportunity to...