{"id":110849,"date":"2020-11-12T06:17:37","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T03:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/fbis-failures-to-protect-whistleblowers-then-and-now-devine\/"},"modified":"2020-11-12T06:17:37","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T03:17:37","slug":"fbis-failures-to-protect-whistleblowers-then-and-now-devine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/fbis-failures-to-protect-whistleblowers-then-and-now-devine\/","title":{"rendered":"#FBI’s failures to protect whistleblowers, then and now: Devine"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#FBI’s failures to protect whistleblowers, then and now: Devine<\/strong>”
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\n Lin Wood, the lawyer who represented the hero security guard falsely accused of the 1996 Atlanta Olympics bombing, says that case \u201cwas the precursor of things to come.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Richard Jewell case was one of the FBI\u2019s most infamous miscarriages of justice, with the despicable collusion of the media<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Not only was Jewell innocent, but he had saved hundreds of lives that night by spotting the bomb.<\/p>\n

The problem was that he was a na\u00efve nobody and the FBI was under pressure to solve a high-profile crime, so they leaked his name to the media and ruined his life.<\/p>\n

Wood, who currently is helping to prepare a lawsuit to declare the 2020 presidential election in Georgia \u201cunlawful and constitutional,\u201d says the forces which conspired to destroy Jewell are stronger than ever.<\/p>\n

He sees their work in the Russia collusion campaign waged by the media and the intelligence agencies against President Trump and in the current gaslighting over election fraud.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s happ<\/a>ening today is very similar in that the media is abusing individuals\u2019 reputations to further its own agenda,\u201d Wood says.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe agenda with Richard Jewell was to get the scoop. Now I think the agenda is to provide evidence to support propaganda.\u201d<\/p>\n

I called Wood because I had just watched the four-hour secretly recorded interrogation of whistle-blower postal worker Richard Hopkins by two federal agents who clearly were not interested in getting to the truth of his allegations of ballot fraud.<\/p>\n

Agent Russell Strasser, from the USPS Office of the Inspector General<\/a>, was focused instead on convincing Hopkins to change the affidavit he had given to independent, undercover news<\/a> organization Project Veritas.<\/p>\n

Hopkins\u2019 affidavit, dated last Friday, was a bombshell, which is why it was cited by Sen. Lindsey Graham when he called for the Justice Department and the FBI to launch an investigation.<\/p>\n

On Monday, Attorney General Bill Barr authorized federal prosecutors to examine any credible allegations of voting irregularities.<\/p>\n

So, you can see the stakes were high, and the pressure on this 32-year-old divorced postal worker, a Marine veteran, was immense.<\/p>\n

What Hopkins claimed in his sworn affidavit was that the postmaster in Erie, Pa., Rob Weisenbach, had instructed postal workers to segregate any mail ballots they received after Election Day, Nov. 3, and hand them over to him, rather than place them in the normal mail-stream to be accurately postmarked in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n

He found that suspicious.<\/p>\n

Further, Hopkins alleged that he had overheard Weisenbach tell a supervisor that he was back-dating the postmarks on those segregated late ballots to \u201cmake it appear they had been collected on November 3, 2020,\u201d which would be a violation of Pennsylvania law, which requires that ballots cannot be counted unless they were mailed before 8 p.m. on Election Day.<\/p>\n

It didn\u2019t take long after the Project Veritas story for his colleagues to figure out it was him.<\/p>\n

Then the harassment began.<\/p>\n

He was placed on unpaid suspension by the USPS. He was harassed by \u201ca representative of the postal worker union who began asking me about old allegations against me, which have long been resolved.\u201d<\/p>\n

In case he lost his job, he set up a GoFundMe account, with the help of Project Veritas. GoFundMe froze the account.<\/p>\n

Then on Monday he was interrogated by Strasser and agent Charles Klein for four hours and they convinced him to \u201camend\u201d his affidavit.<\/p>\n

Luckily for Hopkins, he recorded the whole conversation on his phone and Project Veritas released the recording last night.<\/p>\n

Like Jewell, Hopkins is a patriot interested in policing. Like Jewell, he is obliging and trusting of authority. And, like Jewell, he was abused by the authorities he trusted.<\/p>\n

In the recording, Strasser begins with a series<\/a> of oily compliments.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is why l already like you,\u201d says Strasser, \u201cbecause you\u2019re a marine and you know what integrity is . . . You and I both served this country and I know you love this country.\u201d<\/p>\n

Strasser tells Hopkins, \u201cMy goal is to protect you . . . I\u2019m in your corner on this. I want to take care of you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then he threatens him, in the nicest way, over the GoFundMe account being treated as \u201cill-gotten\u201d gains.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am not scaring you, but I am scaring you here . . . it can be argued that money was gained by . . . deceptions . . . you could be held accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Over and over, Hopkins is asked to repeat verbatim the words he heard Weisenbach using.<\/p>\n

He is taken out onto the post office floor to re-enact the moment, and Strasser makes him think he was too far away to really hear what he heard.<\/p>\n

Inch by inch, Strasser wears away at his memory, until Hopkins obligingly agrees he had made a \u201clogical assumption\u201d that the ballots were being backdated but had not heard Weisenbach use the word \u201cbackdated.\u201d<\/p>\n

Strasser tells him, \u201cI am trying to twist you a little bit.\u201d<\/p>\n

Toward the end of the interrogation, as Strasser is dictating out loud the amendments to his affidavit, Hopkins realizes the final product is not the full picture, that his apprehension that something fishy was going on has been whitewashed from the document.<\/p>\n

Hopkins tries to get the agents to understand the other suspicions he had about late ballots.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe picking up of the ballots and turning them directly to the supervisor rather than putting them in the \u2018mailstream,\u2019 that\u2019s kind of important,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Agent Charles Klein butts in: \u201cThose were your assumptions. Right?\u201d<\/p>\n

Hopkins keeps trying. \u201cSee that\u2019s the thing about these ballots \u2014 it\u2019s the validity of us picking them up.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s so weird that we\u2019re picking up ballots [after Election Day] because at this point they are no longer valid . . . Wouldn\u2019t it be best to inform somebody that, hey . . . they\u2019re no longer valid . . . Or wouldn\u2019t it make sense to send it to Pittsburgh where . . . it would be postmarked. I mean, they wanted it separated rather than being just thrown in the [mailstream] which we were doing right before, a week before . . . that just didn\u2019t make sense to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hopkins was right. It didn\u2019t make sense.<\/p>\n

But the agents didn\u2019t seem to think any of it was suspicious.<\/p>\n

They had what they came for.<\/p>\n

The next day, Democrats on the House Oversight Committee tweeted that \u201cthe whistleblower completely RECANTED his allegations.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Washington Post blared: \u201cPostal worker recanted allegations of ballot tampering.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hopkins denies that he recanted his story.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were grilling the hell out of me. I feel like I just got played,\u201d he told Project Veritas. \u201cI did not recant my statements.\u201d<\/p>\n

Like Richard Jewell, Hopkins is an American hero, caught in something ugly.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow it all will play out, only God knows,\u201d says Wood.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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