🚀 go-pugleaf

This is repeated from today's CNN lead story.  It is of obvious interest 
to anyone concerned with truth and justice.  It's especially notable that 
the FBI leadership was so afraid to have their own critique of their own 
behavior released that they engaged in felonious destruction of evidence. 
 Don't you wonder what the REAL story might be? 


			
			Former FBI section
                        chief pleads guilty,
                        admits destroying
                        Ruby Ridge report

                        October 30, 1996
                        Web posted at: 1:50 p.m. EST 

                        WASHINGTON (CNN) -- An FBI
                        executive pleaded guilty to
                        obstruction of justice Wednesday
                        after admitting in federal court
                        that he had destroyed an internal
                        FBI report criticizing the bureau's handling of 
the
                        1992 siege at Ruby Ridge, Idaho. 

                        As part of his plea, E. Michael Kahoe agreed to
                        cooperate with federal prosecutors looking into 
the
                        possibility that other FBI officials were 
involved in
                        a cover-up of the actions that took place during
                        the nine-day standoff outside Randy Weaver's 
mountain 			cabin. 

                                                     Weaver's wife and 
son,
                                                     and a federal 
marshal
                                                     were shot to death
                                                     during the nine-day
                                                     standoff. 

                                                     The lead federal
                                                     prosecutor, U.S.
                        Attorney Michael Stiles, said he has not promised
                        Kahoe he will remain out of prison. Kahoe could
                        be sentenced to up to 10 years in prison and a
                        $250,000 fine. However, the judge granted the
                        prosecutor's request that no sentencing date be
                        set, and that Kahoe be released without posting
                        bond. 

                        Moments before Kahoe pleaded guilty in open
                        court, prosecutors described what they said were
                        Kahoe's illegal actions. 

                        Government attorney Eric Sitarchuk said Kahoe
                        had thrown all of his copies of the 
"after-action"
                        report into his trash can to be shredded and had
                        ordered a subordinate, Gale Evans, to destroy all
                        other copies. He said Kahoe had previously met
                        with Justice Department officials several times,
                        and had promised to turn over all key documents
                        requested by federal prosecutors. 

                        However, Sitarchuk said Kahoe had been
                        determined to keep the internal FBI criticism of 
its
                        Ruby Ridge actions out of the hands of
                        prosecutors trying Weaver in Idaho. 

                        Sitarchuk said Kahoe told Evans, "to make it like
                        the Ruby Ridge after-action critique had never
                        existed." 




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