Tax money well spent!
"US agencies expanding use of undercover operations; Shift in tactics far beyond FBI, with little notice" by Eric Lichtblau and William M. Arkin, New York Times November 16, 2014
WASHINGTON — The federal government has significantly expanded undercover operations in recent years, with officers from at least 40 agencies posing as business people, welfare recipients, political protesters, doctors, or ministers to ferret out wrongdoing, records and interviews show.
No one in bank boardrooms?
Could also be a list of people I see in the paper, too.
At the Supreme Court, undercover officers dress as students when joining large demonstrations outside the courthouse to look for suspicious activity, according to officials familiar with the practice.
And there are AGENT PROVOCATEURS!
COINTELPRO is ALIVE and WELL!
At the Internal Revenue Service, dozens of undercover agents chase suspected tax evaders worldwide, using such cover roles as tax preparers, accountants, drug dealers, or yacht buyers, records show.
At the Agriculture Department, more than 100 undercover agents pose as food stamp recipients at thousands of neighborhood stores to investigate suspicious vendors and fraud, officials said.
But Wall Street banks that stole far more are too big to jail, and just pay the war-profiteers cost-plus corrupt overruns.
Undercover work, inherently invasive and sometimes dangerous, was once largely the domain of the FBI and a few other law enforcement agencies at the federal level.
But outside public view, changes in policies and tactics over the last decade have resulted in undercover teams run by agencies in virtually every aspect of the US government, according to officials, former agents, and documents.
Can you really trust any strangers you come in contact with?
Some agency officials say such operations give them a powerful tool to gather evidence in ways that standard methods do not offer, leading to more prosecutions.
Or frame and set up people.
But the broadened scope of undercover work, which can target specific individuals or categories of possible suspects, raises concerns about civil liberties abuses and entrapment of targets.
It has also resulted in hidden problems, with money gone missing, investigations compromised, and agents sometimes left largely on their own for months or even years.
It is impossible to tell how effective the government’s operations are or evaluate whether the benefits outweigh the costs, since little information about them is publicly disclosed.
Yes, just trust this lying, tyrannical government.
“Done right, undercover work can be a very effective law enforcement method, but it carries serious risks and should only be undertaken with proper training, supervision, and oversight,” said Michael German, a former FBI undercover agent who is a fellow at New York University’s law school.
“Ultimately, it is government deceitfulness and participation in criminal activity, which is only justifiable when it is used to resolve the most serious crimes,” he said.
What more need be said? For those who truly believed all the myths we were taught and told, that destroys and shreds them all. Criminality is justified when it is the largest criminal racket around.
Some of the expanded undercover operations resulted from heightened concern about domestic terrorism after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Everything has been justified in the name of that $elf-$erving fal$e flag by the USraeli government.
But many operations are not linked to terrorism.
Like we were told they would all be.
Instead, they reflect a more aggressive approach to growing criminal activities like identity theft, online solicitation, and human trafficking, or a push from Congress to crack down on crime.
Criminal activities that the government is most likely behind or allowing. Then they got you both ways.
Most undercover investigations never become public, but when they do, they can prove controversial.
This month, James B. Comey, the director of the FBI, was forced to defend the bureau’s tactics after it was disclosed that an agent had posed as an Associated Press reporter in 2007 in trying to identify the source of bomb threats at a high school in Lacey, Wash.
You see?
Related: School Bomb Threat Was Instigated by FBI
And it only raises hackles when one of their own in the $elect pre$$ has been violated. The pre$$titutes don't care about you and me.
One has to now question every single school shooting or other event.
The Justice Department issued new guidelines last year designed to tighten oversight of its own undercover operations and “sensitive” investigative techniques, officials said.
Peter Carr, a Justice Department spokesman, said undercover operations are necessary in investigating crime, but agents and prosecutors must follow safeguards.
Yeah, they are STILL DOING THEM!
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Related: Springfield man charged with posing as a federal marshal
What's good for the goose.... ??
At least they are acting on these $cum:
"Feds: Bullying, lying debt collectors an epidemic" Associated Press November 19, 2014
NEW YORK — The country is facing an epidemic of unscrupulous debt collectors willing to pose as law enforcement and threaten arrest to squeeze dollars out of Americans, a top prosecutor said Tuesday as he announced the arrests of seven people who worked for an Atlanta-area company.
Just modern day Robin Hoods, right?
US Attorney Preet Bharara said the abusive practices have become so widespread that even a top FBI official in New York City got a call.
‘‘This has become something of an epidemic,’’ Bharara told a news conference.
And the federal government then lurched into action!
Related: Lip-Smacking Debt Collectors
Well, you know....
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He said the workers at the defunct Williams, Scott & Associates LLC in Norcross, Ga., threatened people with imminent arrest unless they paid debts they sometimes didn’t even owe.
So they are behaving like the IRS?
The company was shut down after the Federal Trade Commission brought a civil action against it earlier this year.
But Richard Frankel, a top FBI official in New York, said the workers quickly opened another company under a different name and were operating at the time of their arrests.
Frankel, who recently received a call at his FBI office from an abusive debt collection agency claiming it was the ‘‘IRS,’’ said the defendants in the scam unveiled Tuesday were ‘‘bullies with badges. The only problem was the badges were bogus.’’
Get 'em undercover, will ya'?
According to a criminal complaint, the employees falsely claimed they worked for, or were in contact with, the Justice Department, the US Marshals Service, the FBI and sheriffs’ departments.
Bharara said the company’s employees tried to create an appearance of legitimacy by routinely using bogus legal terminology.
Called the wrong number, huh?
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$o did I.
