Howie Carr: A rare salute to the Boston FBI for refusing Jan. 6 improper investigations on citizens

“…Hill continued: “BOA took it upon themselves to data-mine their customer base — bank credit cards, debit cards, and to see whether they had bought anything in D.C., or purchased a plane ticket to D.C. around Jan. 6. If you showed up on either of those lists, and if you had ever purchased a firearm with one of their credit cards, whenever, then you went to the top of the list. There were no allegations of any crimes committed, only that the person was just using a legally-purchased product that they owned….”

But the Washington Field Office runs wide open, KGB-style, doing whatever must be done to advance the fundamental transformation of America. So the FBI comrades sorted the names by region and sent out directives to the outlying field offices.

Boston handles four states — Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine and Rhode Island. Seven BOA customers here had purchases that identified them to the American Gestapo as enemies of the state.

The Boston field office was instructed to open an investigation into the BOA Seven.

The Boston guys, God bless ‘em, pushed back. What exactly were the “predicate acts?” The Democrats in D.C. didn’t care about no stinkin’ rights. Just ask the owners of Betsy Ross flags, or Catholics who attend Latin Masses. They too have been deemed subversives by the FBI.

The briefers in Washington said, in effect, just open the cases and we’ll find out if they did anything.

Or as they used to say in the old Soviet Union, “Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime.”

Hill says the bureaucratic struggle first raged at the GS-14 level, supervisory special agents. Then it moved up to the assistant special agent in charge, a GS-15, who in Boston was a former F-18 pilot and U.S. Naval Academy grad.

Finally the boss in Boston put his foot down. Since the local FBI won’t comment, I won’t name him, but dammit Joe, we’re all proud of you.

“I still don’t know if Washington got some other field office to do the investigations,” Hill says…”