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FBI's Jersey Hustle saved the credibility of the U.S. governmentWell, the reputation of the FBI has been taking some big hits lately, culminating this week with the retraction (but no related firings?) of a leaked document targeting traditional Catholics as potential terrorists. Don't comment on old threads even if they're real informative. So I was interested to see a puff piece on an FBI project whose name I barely remember - ABSCAM - come into my news feed: In the 1980s, the FBI launched a courageous initiative to combat fraudulent behavior in Congress: The Abscam operation. Wow. Even the Wiki is much better than this. In March 1978, John F. Good of the FBI's office in suburban Long Island created and oversaw a sting operation called "Abscam", which was initially intended to investigate theft, forgery and stolen art.[6][7][8][9] The FBI employed Melvin Weinberg, a convicted swindler, international con artist and informant, and his girlfriend, Evelyn Knight, to help plan and conduct the operation. They were facing a prison sentence at the time and in exchange for their help, the FBI agreed to let them out on probation.[3] Weinberg, supervised by the FBI, created a fake company called Abdul Enterprises in which FBI employees posed as fictional Arab sheikhs led by owners Kambir Abdul Rahman and Yassir Habib, who had millions of dollars to invest in the United States.[8] Weinberg instructed the FBI to fund a $1 million account with the Chase Manhattan Bank in the name of Abdul Enterprises, giving the company the credibility it needed to further its operation.[2] It was an audacious plan. According to the first story I found in my news feed, our faith in government should be restored by the FBI's bribery of reckless con artists to entrap corrupt politicans. Still working for you? A movie, American Hustle, was based on the FBI sting. It's not quite as one-sided as the first story above. Here's an analysis of what was fact and what was not in the movie. Wonder what happened to the FBI's original plan to go after thieves in the private sector? Was that just dropped? Oh well, they convicted 6 Democratic congressmen and a senator plus other politicians of the 31 they tried to bribe. FBI Promos from Hollywood Here's a piece on the 32 Best FBI TV Shows. The 32 BEST? There have been more than 32? J. Edgar Hoover used to review the original FBI TV show episodes for accuracy, according to this report. And then there are the movies: Past FBI Scandals There have been a lot of scandals in the FBI's past, but the ones involving forensics keep coming back to me. Why does the FBI need that massive new building? This piece from 2009 by John F. Kelley and Phillip K. Wearneis really detailed. The FBI's vaunted crime lab is a scandal of atrocious forensic science. Its "junk science" permeates the U.S. criminal justice system as it bogus "findings" routinely punish the innocent and set the guilty free, affecting thousands of lives in the process. From The Atlantic, 2015, latest scandal at that time: CSI Is a Lie. FBI press release, 2015: FBI Testimony on Microscopic Hair Analysis Contained Errors in at Least 90 Percent of Cases in Ongoing Review Whistleblower hero, Dr. Whitehurst, 2017 report: When Dr. Frederic Whitehurst initially blew the whistle on the systemic forensic fraud in the FBI crime lab, he could never have known it was the start of a lifelong fight for government accountability. Related Not sure what to think about this report from the Intercept:
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