FEDERAL BUREAU OF INJUSTICE
The FBI sucks. This is not news, but their brooming of the Hillary Clinton email scandal just reconfirms it, with an exclamation point or two.
FBI — Famous but Incompetent. Only it’s worse than that — this is the Federal Bureau of Injustice.
Couldn’t the G-men at least have suspended Clinton for four games?
At City Hall, Mayor Walsh’s union thug wannabes must be scratching their heads. She turns over state secrets to “hostile parties,” while Marty’s minions just do what’s expected of them, stalling a few city permits in return for a handful of union jobs, with no cash even changing hands, and they get indicted while Hillary flies off to North Carolina on Air Force One.
All these months, people predicted on TV that James Comey was a stand-up guy who wouldn’t roll over.
Please. Did these guys ever meet a real FBI agent? They’re paper-shufflers, pencil-sharpeners. The last G-man to leave without a pension was Melvin Purvis, in 1939. Hoover didn’t give him enough credit for the Biograph Theater stakeout.
Your average fed is a lot more simpatico with Zip Connolly or John Morris than with Efrem Zimbalist Jr. Don’t tell me about them — they’ve had a running file on me since 1975, when I was a 23-year-old cub reporter covering the Black Panther Party for a newspaper in North Carolina.
I was writing stories about the FBI’s illegal dirty-tricks COINTELPRO program against the local chapter of the Panthers, quoting the feds’ own 209s and 302s. The Sons of J. Edgar were not pleased. Then-FBI Director Clarence Kelley wrote a scathing letter to my boss and the bent feds sent one another memos about “possible presentation of the possible theft of Government property matter to the United States Attorney.”
In other words, for exposing their crimes, I came closer to getting lugged than Hillary did for actually committing them.
A few years later, I filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) demanding my file. First, they flat-out lied that there were no such documents. I had a congressman make the same request — ditto. Finally I found the smoking gun on their own website when they admitted how they’d been violating the civil rights of Americans.
And when I read the records that the FBI had told me for years didn’t exist, I discovered they’d been lying about what they’d done to me. They said they’d thought about confronting me about where I was getting the documents, but had decided not to.
Another lie. They’d marched into the newsroom demanding my sources. Then they lied to their own bosses about what they’d done, and when I asked for the records, they lied about their existence.
This is why, when Stevie Flemmi said he and Whitey had six G-men on their pad, my first reaction was, “Only six?”
As the tweet went yesterday, “As your attorney, I advise you to change your name to Clinton.” If I ever get in another jam, I’m just going to tell them that I selfidentify as a Clinton. Listen to Howie 3-7 p.m. on WRKO AM 680.