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 In the movie The Long Kiss Goodnight, the main character finally figures out that the CIA is planning on blowing up a small town using the frozen corpse of a middle eastern guy in a tanker truck in order to get their budget raised to fight terrorism.

The comment upon breaking the case “It’s a goddamned fundraiser.”

Far fetched?  Yeah, maybe.  

Not a very good movie even with Samuel L Jackson in it?  Yeah, but that’s beside the point.

The Rutherford Institute has some commentary on the subject in the real world. 

The commentary by John Whitehead is both scathing and scary.  

The government’s henchmen have become the embodiment of how power, once acquired, can be so easily corrupted and abused. Indeed, far from being tough on crime, FBI agents are also among the nation’s most notorious lawbreakers.

Whether the FBI is planting undercover agents in churches, synagogues and mosques; issuing fake emergency letters to gain access to Americans’ phone records; using intimidation tactics to silence Americans who are critical of the government, or persuading impressionable individuals to plot acts of terror and then entrapping them, the overall impression of the nation’s secret police force is that of a well-dressed thug, flexing its muscles and doing the boss’ dirty work.

…In addition to creating certain crimes in order to then “solve” them, the FBI also gives certain informants permission to break the law, “including everything from buying and selling illegal drugs to bribing government officials and plotting robberies,” in exchange for their cooperation on other fronts. 

 Read the whole thing–follow the links.