FBI Has Evolved Into Organized Crime Outfit that Operates Above the Law
By John Kiriakou
Twenty years ago I took two of my sons to a World Wrestling Entertainment fight at Madison Square Garden. They were obsessed at the time with the likes of Stone Cold Steve Austin, The Rock, and other “wrestlers” whose names I still remember all these years later.
Very few of these characters seemed compelling to me at the time, and at one point during a match, I turned to the boys and asked, “So which one is the good guy?” My older son responded, “That’s just it, dad. There are no good guys.”
That’s exactly the situation we’re seeing in the Washington, DC trial of members of the Proud Boys, who allegedly participated in the January 6, 2021 riot at the Capitol building. Four out of the five defendants in this trial were convicted ultimately of sedition. The star witnesses against them were FBI agents. And just as in the WWE, there are no good guys.
At one point, the trial of the Proud Boys was suddenly brought to a halt when an FBI agent on the witness stand admitted, after attempting to conceal the fact, that she and her colleagues had monitored privileged communications between one of the defendants and his attorney in 2021.
When FBI agent Nicole Miller was asked by defense attorney Nick Smith to confirm whether she and another agent had discussed the content of emails exchanged between defendant Zach Rehl and one of his attorneys, she responded, “It appears so.”
Smith then read aloud from one of Miller’s texts to one of the prosecutors and to another FBI agent: “I need to find other emails, but this one email definitely indicates that they want to go to trial. But don’t freak out, Jason and Luke.”