Patty who comments here on occasion suggests some in the mainstream media are reading my blog and stealing my ideas. I appreciate Patty’s belief in the impact of my blog but I happen to think it is not this blog that is making others more alert to the happenings which I have been discussing but…

On long weekends the interest in Whitey Bulger declines and we all go about dealing with things that demand attention and that we can’t get to during the work week. When I was discussing with a friend some of the things we used to do in the 1980s I was reminded that I was talking…

A man is killed in an apartment in front of law enforcement officers by a law enforcement officer. It seems a pretty simple thing to figure out.  You talk to the law enforcement officers who were there and you know what happened. But this is the FBI that’s involved.  The Boston Globe reported today: “The…

On May Day, the day when the world celebrates the worker and I celebrate another great event in world history, (and I don’t mean the ersatz Law Day created by lawyers to tell themselves how important they are), CNN’s Erin Burnett  interviewed Tim Clemente, former FBI counter- terrorism expert.. Erin had been talking about the…

On Wednesday,  May 22, 2013 at 5:00 p.m. FBI SAC Charles Bright from the Orlando FBI office made the following statement: “We regret to announce the death of Ibragim Todashev who died earlier today as a result of being shot three times by FBI Special Agent Rick O’Shea.  The circumstances of this unfortunate incident are…

When I read FBI Boston SAC Richard DesLauriers statement that the FBI was doing everything “in accordance with U.S. constitutional restrictions” I knew that was just another FBI line that is often tossed out to the American public as a keeper of a junk yard throws a bone to his mad dog to keep him…