presents
Pamphlet #513
"80,000 Armed Federales"
(The Standing Army Our Founding Fathers Feared)
Joseph Farah is editor and chief executive officer of WorldNetDaily.com and writes:
NEW YORK -- The FBI would like us to think it is incompetent --
that documents it should have turned over to the defense teams
of Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols just got lost in the shuffle.
Do you buy it? I don't.
It is particularly hard to accept
given the latest revelations
by an intrepid TV reporter from
Oklahoma City, Jayna Davis,
who says she tried to turn over
evidence
of a wider conspiracy in the Oklahoma
City bombing
that killed 168 people April 19,
1995, but was rebuffed.
The FBI's rationale for turning
Davis away?
According to what federal officials
told producers
of Fox News Channel's "The O'Reilly
Factor,"
they didn't want to accept the
uncorroborated leads
because they would have to disclose
them to the defense teams.
In other words,
the FBI didn't want to investigate
any leads
that didn't fit in with its preconceived
notion
that McVeigh and Nichols acted
alone.
Now, keep in mind
the FBI has simultaneously been boasting
that the investigation of the Oklahoma City bombing was the largest
and most sweeping probe in the agency's history
-- involving 2,000 agents
and
20,000 witness interviews.
The bombing was the worst terrorism
incident
in the history of the United States.
Yet, the FBI admits it turned a
blind eye to potential evidence in the criminal case.
Does this make sense?
There's more here than meets the
eye.
It seems the FBI has,
through what it claims is a procedural
malfunction,
set the stage for mistrials in
the convictions of McVeigh and Nichols.
Not only did the FBI admittedly
withhold documents required under disclosure rules,
it also limited the scope of its
investigation
so as not to jeopardize the convictions
of two men
who clearly had a role in the bombing.
I once had enormous respect for the FBI.
Maybe I was wrong.
But that respect is gone, shattered.
It is now more evident to me than
ever
that the founders were right all
along
about the limits on the power of
the federal government
-- particularly police powers.
I've got to believe now
that it is time to think
what for most Americans is still
probably the unthinkable
-- that it's time for the FBI to
be disbanded.
The FBI has lost any vestige of trust and integrity.
The McVeigh case is simply the last
straw.
The FBI Gave us Waco
and Ruby Ridge
They gave us the Wen
Ho Lee debacle.
The FBI brought us Robert
Philip Hanssen.
And now the FBI has jeopardized
the cause of justice
in the
Oklahoma City bombing.
Whether through incompetence
(as hard as that may be to believe)
or negligence,
it's time for the American people to start debating the future of the FBI and,
frankly,
whether it does the nation more harm than good.
That is how serious these breaches
of the public trust are.
After all, the FBI has proved itself incapable in recent years
of getting to the bottom of some of the biggest criminal investigations.
So what's the point?
Some of you might say:
"Well, Farah,
we need the FBI to keep tabs on
threats to our national security."
I used to think like that.
Yet, in the 1990s we watched in
amazement
as the FBI showed it was not up
to the task of keeping illegal foreign money
from buying American political
races.
And when those "investigations"
were over
and the books were closed,
the FBI refused even to allow the
American people
to learn what the agency had found
in tracking illegal foreign political
contributions.
I no longer believe our government.
And I especially am suspect of anything we hear from federal police agencies.
It's not only time to retire the FBI,
it's past time to demobilize the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms,
the armed Internal Revenue Service agents,
the armed enviro-cops, the housing Gestapo
and the sum total of perhaps 80,000
armed federales
who have crept into our system
of justice
in this country and turned it into
a system of injustice.
Maybe this is where gun-control efforts ought to be waged
-- controlling the number of guns
the government is pointing at the citizens
of a supposedly free country.
Will the American people awaken
to the fact that they have lost
all accountability
with government police agencies?
If the Oklahoma City bombing case
doesn't provide the wakeup call,
what will it take?
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