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On Oct 23, 1996 03:01:24 in article <Re: Obstruction of Justice - by the 
FBI>, 'joe412@conmet.org (Joe)' wrote:


>Pete Marshall <marshall@haverford.edu> wrote:
>
>>The following is excerpted from a CNN report today: 
>
>This article is irrelevant spam.  It should be cancelled.



It is certainly not spam.  And it's certainly not irrelevant, unless 
maybe you come from another planet.  In fact, it was today's lead story 
on CNN.  If your own government's corruption doesn't bother you, maybe 
you're part of the problem.  


In case you didn't read it carefully enough the first time, here it is 
again.  
And feel free to explain to everyone why it "should be cancelled."



The following is excerpted from a CNN report today: 


               FBI official charged with
               obstruction of justice in
               Ruby Ridge siege

               October 22, 1996
               Web posted at: 2:25 p.m. EDT 

               (CNN) -- A high-ranking FBI
               official charged with reviewing
               the FBI's raid at Ruby Ridge,
               Idaho, was charged Tuesday
               with destroying the critique
               and making it appear as if the
               report never existed. 

               E. Michael Kahoe, former chief of the Violent Crimes and
               Major Offenders Section at FBI headquarters in
               Washington, D.C., was charged with obstruction of
               justice. He faces a maximum of 10 years in prison and a
               $250,000 fine if convicted. 

               According to the U.S. Attorney's
               Office in Washington, Kahoe was
               ordered to prepare an "after
               action critique" of the FBI's
               conduct at Ruby Ridge. During
               the 1992 standoff, a deputy U.S.
               marshal was killed, along with the
               wife and son of property owner
               Randy Weaver. 

               Kahoe organized and moderated a conference on the
               Ruby Ridge matter at FBI headquarters in November
               1992, and ordered that a report be prepared. But when
               federal prosecutors in Idaho asked the FBI for materials
               pertaining to the incident, Kahoe and certain unnamed
               superiors at FBI headquarters resisted the request, the
               U.S. Attorney's office said. 

                                 In order to ensure that the
                                 critique would not be made
                                 available, Kahoe "withheld the
                                 critique from the documents
                                 to be delivered" to
                                 prosecutors, the U.S.
                                 Attorney's office alleged.
                                 Kahoe "ordered a subordinate
               FBI headquarters official to destroy all copies of the
               critique and to make it appear as if the critique never
               existed," the prosecutor's office said. 

               Four other top FBI officials, including former Deputy FBI
               Director Larry Potts, remain under investigation in the
               cover-up probe by U.S. Attorney Michael Stiles.


Commentary:

" Today the nations of the world may be divided into two classes - the 
nations in which the government fears the people, and the nations in 
which the people fear the government. "

- Amos R. E. Pinochet 



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