Director Patel, I was an FBI Agent for almost three decades and worked pretty much every classification/case you could imagine …finishing my career in Buffalo as Supervisor of the BR Squad. The reason most retired criminal Agents were so successful is they knew how to INVESTIGATE cases, make arrests, execute search warrants, draw up those warrants, doing INTERVIEWS …the most important tool that there is, INTERVIEWS!
The only way you can interview a subject, if you want to get him/her to talk, is to grab him/her with an arrest warrant, and here’s the part that is, has been, and always will be the most important part of the whole deal …THE ARREST INTERVIEW …and the arrest search.
If you do it any other way, the FBI will never be successful. The LAST thing you want to do is indict, bench warrant, call his lawyer and tell him to bring in his client …that’s pure law school BULLSHIT because his lawyer knew this guy’s buddy in law school …and THAT’S the typical bullshit that comes out of all the districts around WDC …politics.
That’s what happened with Comey. Who wanted to indict Comey? Whoever it was is not very FBI “orientated” …fact is whoever it was is STUPID and doesn’t belong as an investigator.
The f—n guy ADMITTED he lied to Congress, twice he admitted he leaked and gave others info to leak! He threw Andy McCabe under the bus while under oath! WTF! I would have had that weak sister handing up his big case. Martha Stewart…boy…that was nip and tuck, she almost hit him with a spatula! …didn’t he …without blinking an eye, and without hesitation.
Comey …when the then President Elect Trump asked him, “What he thought about the “Steele Dossier” …Comey responded, “It is unverified and salacious”. Yet he signed IT …that’s correct. HE signed it and approved it to go to the FISA Court and ruined many people’s careers with a FELONY LIE!!! What the hell is going on …that Dossier was responsible for MANY, and I mean MANY, felonies …for which …Comey is responsible! Where’s the arrests?
Everything Comey did was to keep the real FBI Agents away from criminal cases because we would have solved them! So, get rid of criminal cases and you get rid of the FBI cases. What to do to keep the Strozk’s and McCabe’s and Page’s and Baker’s busy…is “Counter Intel”. Don’t you just love it? The great work they do… “How many arrests did you make…” I thought the FBI was a CRIME fighting agency!? Not a Crime Avoiding Agency?! Comey built his own little hatchet squad and chopped away …not at crime …they don’t work Title 18 USC anymore. They moved, in every way, to disregard real crimes …
Title 18 USC Crimes …crimes like bank robbery, escape federal prisoners, UFAP, interstate thefts, kidnapping, interstate prostitution, Hobbs Act, Treason and many more. Those were the cases that made FBI Agents what we were …the best there was! Instead, they used terrorism, hunter gatherer, counter terrorism, an oxymoron to make them too busy to bother with bank robberies …or interstate car thefts …or fugitive cases.
So, when the time came to draw up and execute some warrants they couldn’t and apparently neither does DOJ know how to pen an arrest warrant, search warrant, or nor does the “prosecutors” know anything about the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure!
When I was sworn in at the Old Post Office, the FBI was responsible for 180 Title 18 violations. Hoover believed that the public was so instrumental in solving those cases, he selected 15 viola
tions he considered high profile and wanted the FBI on the front pages in every newspaper around showing a bad guy, like Comey, in cuffs with an Agent on each side, making those cases the backbone of the FBI. Under Hoover, most of us broke our backs to make that “BIG” case.
The idea is to solve crimes, make arrests, testify in court to the evidence and get convictions and get new informants! The best way is to ask the subject …you would be surprised at how successful that can be, but it takes time to build that type of skill…but…if you don’t enforce the laws …you will NEVER learn how! If you indict then bench warrant, you kill that very important act. AND … you kill that opportunity to develop sources!!! Two BIG MISTAKES and it’s all legal as can be!!! Ask any of today’s Agents how many arrests they made …last week …last month …last year…and don’t be surprised when they ALL say …well …NONE, NONE and NONE!
Go ahead and ask Strzok or McCabe or Baker…IN THEIR ENTIRE FREAKING CAREERS how many and hear the answer, “I was doing counter intel” …then ask how many arrests they made doing THAT …how many informants, none!
If those scoundrels, fbi…lower case… agents? spent as much time solving real crimes instead of trying to put an innocent man, President Trump, in jail…for no crime! What crime did my President commit? They could have found real CRIMINALS just by looking around in Comey’s office! Comey did his best and almost succeeded in the overthrow of the Constitutional Republic (that’s the Constitution, for the benefit of those scoundrels, it’s called Treason)!
I never had a single year where I had no arrests …no convictions!
In my first office, Columbia, SC, for “orientation”, Charleston RA for 13 months, I solved a homicide by lifting prints (nobody else believed it would yield anything, and it yielded the palm print of the killer). That was my first 30 days.
In the next 13 months, three of us teamed up and arrested over 200…that’s correct …200 fugitive deserters and escape federal prisoners. I arrested a bank robber by out guessing his escape route with a little arithmetic! My partner, Dennis Wick, and I nailed him with two hostages, a shotgun and $18,000. I extracted him with a choke hold, and he outweighed me by 100 pounds!! That works…that’s why it must be trained and used!!
With another Agent, Ray, on late duty we rescued a 5-year-old little girl, Tondalaya Jones, front page news on all three TV stations, as well as most newspapers. Kidnapped from Brooklyn she jumped into my arms and said, “Please don’t let me go”! I’ll never forget how that made me feel!
Years later, I, Steve Gilkerson and Doc Coulson rescued a 7-year-old kidnap victim! When we made it back to the RA, the phones were jumping off the hook and Walter Cronkite got through to the Resident Agency (RA for short) and asked me if it was true, we rescued that little girl…yes! That’s what I called “Wired”! Our SAC was so emotional …he could not believe it!
But the BIGGEST case, as a rookie, was a cold case, an armed robbery of a Bronx NY Deli where a stick-up guy, who was wanted all over the South, unknown to me that he was listed as an IO Fugitive… shot it out with a NY uniform officer who died from his wounds. IO fugitives are so dangerous that First Office Agents are not allowed to work them. My partner Dennis was shot point blank with a 45, as was his partner, in their second office (both survived, thank God) …however …the SAC, Roland Trent, was so happy with my work he allowed me to keep the case! Unknown to me, that was a big deal as Director Hoover had called the SAC after we arrested him …the IO Fugitive went for a gun, and the fight was on …he and I fought …he lost. Director Hoover followed ALL police killings and didn’t believe this case would ever be solved …it was a year old.
So …my second office was the NYO. Fifteen Agents report to the NYO every Monday and ALL 15 are usually sent for orientation and how to stay alive in the Big Apple! ADIC John Malone sent 14 Agents to the Security Squads and me to the Truck Squad, John Gotti’s Crew. Malone dismissed all 14 and asked me to stay. He then had his secretary put a three-way call into the speaker, John Malone, me and Director Hoover…wow…what an honor!!!
The Director wanted to know how I did what I did. I said I developed, on a totally unrelated case, an informant. I helped him out of a jam, and he repaid me, by helping me solve an armed robbery, police killing, by an IO Fugitive! A little leg work, record checks, NCIC, and the IO flyers, a year after the Crime and 1500 miles away from the crime scene! The photo spread in NYO, as was the IO Fugitive Flyer…an IO Fugitive is 1 step away from Top 10!
I really didn’t think it was that big of a deal, but I was wrong. He, the Director, said he follows all police killings, but never had a first office Agent that successful! He went on, a 25-year Agent dreams about arresting a bank robber or rescuing a kidnap victim …and you scored five major cases. He told Malone to put me on the BEST squad in the FBI, and he did! Just a side note …four days on the Truck Squad, the squad hit a John Gotti drop in the Bronx! While covering the front door with a senior Agent, I spotted a very suspicious 26’ rental van, overloaded, scoping out the drop and I hollered to John to get help as I tried to stop the driver. He tried to run me down and took off. I had the car keys and gave chase. He bailed after a few blocks and took a shot at me. I returned fire. An Agent ran 3-4 blocks from the drop and hollered for me to stop chasing…so I did! He said we have rules about foot chases … “WE DON’T DO IT; YOU’LL LIKELY GET SHOT!” Do you think so…!?
Director Patel, there are no FBI Agents working the cases they need to become real Agents …it’s that simple …follow what Hoover did …he was very successful! Your Agents need to be retrained and weeded out…no slackers! They MUST work to become real FBI Agents if you do not retrieve ALL those Title 18 USC Criminal Violations, you will NEVER be successful. We, FBI Agents, NEED bank robbery cases, we need UFAP Cases, especially UFAP they are just dangerous enough to really get into the case! That’s on the job “training”. Science has advanced so much that you can follow a vehicle from New York to California by satellite, you can show a picture of a bad guy coming out of a house in Florida, and get it shown to the victim of the crime before he gets into the car.
You have a source of the most highly trained and intelligent pool to choose from …former Military, Special Ops, Delta, Green Berets, Seal Team, Rangers, Marines …look to them. They do not need the most difficult part of their training. They are well disciplined… give them 6 weeks of training and you’ll have very qualified FBI Agents!
What I am telling you is, your Agents have not worked criminal cases in 25 f—n years. How can they know how to arrest somebody …they don’t know how to draw up an arrest warrant, don’t know how to get a search warrant…don’t know how to execute a search warrant. They don’t know the Elements of Title 18 nor the Federal Rules …many stopped carrying guns! Under Hoover, that is ground for dismissal!
Mar-a-Lago is the perfect example. They have no idea what the Laws say, what the Federal Rules of Criminal procedure, Rule 41, require …the subject CAN witness the search, CAN video (as long as he’s not intrusive), you MUST provide a “detailed” inventory to the subject BEFORE you leave …you MAY not rearrange top secret papers or ANY evidence to create a stronger appearance for a photo op …THAT’S TAMPERING WITH EVIDENCE … and PHOTOGRAPH the freaking top secret papers (what a great f—n idea) …that is several felonies, instant removal!
IDIOTS …who the hell was in charge. I participated in more search warrants than you can imagine …the Truck Squad handled about 275 -300 truck hijackings per year, and we solved about 60% …do the math …we inventoried all that we recovered. How about doing a Search Warrant on a DOD Nuclear Waste Disposal Site in West Valley, NY?
In the NYO, on the BR Squad, we handled 500 BRs per year. That’s two every working day. We handled and solved 60%, that’s 300 cases. That was more than LA had …along with BR fugitives from other offices, kidnapping, and skyjackings. The BR squad also handled the BLA …Coulson handled most of that!
When I transferred to Buffalo, I was asked by the ASAC John Shanley, who showed me my personnel file and noted, I made 57 bank robbery arrests the last year alone …is that correct? I said I didn’t know exactly how many I had but would have guessed there was more than that. He replied, that is more than the entire Buffalo Division made in the last two years combined. He also asked about several shootings noting the last shooting was last Thursday …is that true? Yes, he was a fugitive bank robber out of LA and was very dangerous … he knocked my partner out, was armed and was a light heavyweight contender some years ago. He took a hostage after a foot chase. I was shot at during the chase when I ran past the “boys” who are Harlem dead beats doing what Harlem hoods do. The chase came to a stop when he raised a gun to fire… I shot first causing him to take cover. That’s when he ran upstairs and took a 12-year-old little girl hostage. That’s when my partner showed up and we rushed him. I grabbed the girl and my partner grabbed the subject and down the stairs they went! After a struggle…fight…I knocked him out with a choke hold! That was my last week in the Apple!! The Shooting Review Board ruled justified shooting.
There was a wealth of knowledge…just from working cases! My partner and I solved BRs every way possible …forensic, photos, we handled bombing cases, where one detonated in the bank …no injuries …6 skyjacking cases, including the Dog Day Afternoon where my academy classmate took out the subject.
We surveilled dozens of trucks being hijacked and several bank robberies… witnessing the robberies and some running gunfights.
Ask current Agents how many of them testified as a witness to a robbery!
Director, please recover all those violations and start training. Dump as many do nothing Agents, just look at their files, it’s all there and replace them with retired SOG, Seal, Delta, Rangers. They are all well trained. They just need to learn the law…law is common sense.
The only way you will get to interview any of those Democraps is to get Magistrate arrest warrants and Search warrants for documents that show evidence of guilt, computers, etc. Arrest the bastards, cuff them. I wrote to you that we should NOT go to the Grand Jury.
You do NOT want to go to a preliminary hearing. If my memory serves me correctly, the procedure a good AUSA and Agent want is a Magistrate Warrant to arrest and search, and then request an Information filed by prosecutor by passing the Grand Jury. The case Agent presents and eliminates the preliminary hearing…hearsay testimony is allowed! No evidence unless it’s for PC…that’s all that is necessary! If we would have disclosed what evidence we found …before 3500 material is provided to the defense, we would have been fired! It compromises the case …no early releases to scoundrels…wait until trial! Then and only then … required by law, at trial …stop the transparency BULLSHIT, follow the damn laws and to hell with politics when it comes to criminals, crimes and evidence! They broke the laws …not us…they deserve what the law provides …nothing more and nothing less …go by that rule and you will stay out of trouble! If you indict and get a Bench warrant, you will NEVER solve shit! The idea, geniuses, is to “get the subject’s side”, wink…wink…get it… or are you (whoever decided to indict Comey) …just plain dumb? How’d that go? What did he have to say? Once you indict you won’t get to first base with the Subject …you won’t even get to talk to him/her!! You see …subject interviews are the most important part of a good, smart Agent …but none of you know that because YOU DON’T DO CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS! The idea is to work the interviews, so you get them thinking …the young ones, who were led around by the nose (like Huma), do NOT want felony convictions on their resume! Comey is a wimp. Without lawyers following him around, he would have rolled completely over… too late now! You need help. Look how fast he rolled on admitting the “Steele Dossier is seditious and unverified” …President Trump got a confession by “interviewing” Comey and Comey is too dumb to realize it! President Trump was so surprised, he didn’t know what to say next BUT he got the most IMPORTANT part of that interview …Comey signed the Affidavits for the search warrants and KNEW it was a FRAUD! A good question would have been, “Then why did you and the others sign the warrants”?!
Director Hoover became Director and started firing do nothing Agents and replaced them with college educated candidates …with fighting skills as well, and it worked! Times have changed and we need “that” and not less …more …go after former, military trained …SOG, Seals, Delta, Rangers …tough, well trained, smart …just teach them the laws! They already know how to shoot and fight, just teach them the laws and give them the Criminal Violations that they must have to stay sharp! Interviewing arrested Criminals is as valuable to developing informants and solving cases and dealing with the public!
For 25 years, the FBI has lost those skills … gone! Many Agents do not carry their guns …that was a mistake that got an Agent fired! They don’t work CRIMINAL CASES so how the hell are they going to learn the …How To?! That is critical to making a good investigator… a great investigator! The biggest, BEST, violations to get sharp and stay sharp are Fugitives and Bank Robberies…those are “MUST HAVES”.