Hearing the original story, and reading through the details, Im further reminded of the stories of how the NSA, FBI and others in the federal government use parallel construction to build questionable cases against individuals they want dealt with. The whole story highlights, yet again, why anyone who claims if youve done nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear, are simply wrong. Miraliev did not appear to do anything wrong other than failing to reregister his drivers license on time. But, because the FBI wanted to pressure and then punish him, to give them information they didnt have supposedly to confirm a murder which the FBI itself claims they had already solved, suddenly he got kicked out of the country entirely, losing everything he had (he lost his home, his money and car, which were all left in the US when he got sent back to Tajikistan). While Zalkind presents a plausible theory on what may have happened with the FBI and Todashev, the hiding of information, the coverup and the continued efforts to bully, threaten, harass and (eventually) deport a number of his friends is quite shocking. One former law enforcement official quoted in the show, notes that when your job is to stop terrorism, these kinds of actions seem perfectly reasonable. Even if you have no proof, you just want anyone who knew anyone to be gone, so theyre not your problem. Its entirely possible thats whats going on, and no one seems to care about punishing perfectly innocent people. But if you actually believed the crap that the NSA and FBI have been saying about only targeting real threats to national security, and not putting innocent people at risk, take a listen or read the writeup. It presents a very different picture than one of an FBI protecting the country. It suggests a bunch of thuggish bullies who went too far, and are now doing everything possible to cover their tracks. techdirt/articles/20140310/17434526523/how-fbi-has-been-working-hard-to-deport-friends-guy-they-killed-during-interview-about-boston-bombing.shtml
Posted on: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 21:53:04 +0000