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In reply to the discussion: FBI Entrapment Created 'Illusion' of Terrorist Plots: Report [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)57. Really? Maybe this will help: King Rats
King Rats
Criminal informants are the real winners in the DEAs drug war
by Michael Levine, from Prison Life
Utne Readers, May-June 1996
EXCERPT...
Class One was the Drug Enforcement Administrations top rating for drug dealers. You had to be the head of a criminal organization and dealing with tens of millions of dollars in drugs each month to qualify as a Class One. Pablo Escobar and the fabled Roberto Suarez were Class One.
You can prove your guys a parking lot attendant? I asked.
Ill Fed Ex you his time sheets. Better yet, Ill send you everythingundercover videotapes and the DEAs own reports. You tell me if the guys a Class One.
Why me?
DEA couldnt get any dope from Miguel [not his true name]not even a sample. So they charge the poor bastard with a no-dope conspiracy. Did you ever hear of anything like that? A parking lot attendant on a no-dope conspiracy? Then they bring in a DEA expert from Washington to testify that a true Class One doper doesnt give samples. You and I both know that's bullshit.
CONTINUED...
http://www.utne.com/politics/king-rats-criminal-informants-judicial-folly.aspx#axzz345ykzQ4g
Criminal informants are the real winners in the DEAs drug war
by Michael Levine, from Prison Life
Utne Readers, May-June 1996
EXCERPT...
Class One was the Drug Enforcement Administrations top rating for drug dealers. You had to be the head of a criminal organization and dealing with tens of millions of dollars in drugs each month to qualify as a Class One. Pablo Escobar and the fabled Roberto Suarez were Class One.
You can prove your guys a parking lot attendant? I asked.
Ill Fed Ex you his time sheets. Better yet, Ill send you everythingundercover videotapes and the DEAs own reports. You tell me if the guys a Class One.
Why me?
DEA couldnt get any dope from Miguel [not his true name]not even a sample. So they charge the poor bastard with a no-dope conspiracy. Did you ever hear of anything like that? A parking lot attendant on a no-dope conspiracy? Then they bring in a DEA expert from Washington to testify that a true Class One doper doesnt give samples. You and I both know that's bullshit.
CONTINUED...
http://www.utne.com/politics/king-rats-criminal-informants-judicial-folly.aspx#axzz345ykzQ4g
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Mix in Secret Government and Spherical Snooping and its MONEY for those in the know.
Octafish
Jul 2014
#10
How FBI Entrapment Is Inventing 'Terrorists' - and Letting Bad Guys Off the Hook
Octafish
Jul 2014
#13
Ironic. While very conservative, the FBI Agent Donald Adams was quite a compelling person.
Octafish
Jul 2014
#62
I'm more worried about the Feds arresting cancer grannies for growing pot
Warren DeMontague
Jul 2014
#43
Like DCI William Colby said re Sam Giancana: ''We had nothing to do with that.''
Octafish
Jul 2014
#35
How else can the establishment (TPTB) justify its humongous anti-terraist budget and its
indepat
Jul 2014
#17
You mean the creep who WILLINGLY pressed a button convinced he was going to blow up a crowd
Warren DeMontague
Jul 2014
#42
Mohamud: "I want whoever is attending that event to leave, to leave either dead or injured"
Warren DeMontague
Jul 2014
#45
And apparently a jury of 12 people didn't agree with Glenn Greenwald, who is one.
Warren DeMontague
Jul 2014
#51
I wouldn't. But this guy did considerably more than that. And I have to believe you grasp that fact.
Warren DeMontague
Jul 2014
#53
Back in the 80s a major drug bust went haywire as it turned out ALL of the players were cops....
Spitfire of ATJ
Jul 2014
#63
entrapment laws are a lot like vacation laws, maternity leave laws, sick pay laws
Adam051188
Aug 2014
#76