FBI Monitored Aretha Franklin for Years, File Shows

Re:FBI Monitored Aretha Franklin for Years, File Shows by Natsu on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @12:51PM (#33179678)

Read some of Ken White's older writings, he's been complaining that there's no materiality requirement to 18 USC 1001 for years and that it's been used to manufacture new charges via questioning.

There's also the matter that FBI policy is NOT to record interviews, so there's only an FD-302 saying you lied and nobody can see what you actually said, only what the FBI heard.

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Re:FBI Monitored Aretha Franklin for Years, File Shows by jstarfish on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @01:31PM (#33180245)

Thanks. Found this: https://www.popehat.com/2011/12/01/reminder-oh-wont-you-plea...

One of the comments points out that Martha Stewart was convicted for a basket of charges completely unrelated to the securities fraud that she was indicted for in the first place. Among them: two counts of lying to federal agents.

The FD-302 thing is nothing new; anybody adjacent to CPS or domestic violence will have seen the equivalent take place in therapists' offices. Client and/or therapist can rehearse abuse stories with no accountability whatsoever.

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