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Soul Crusher:
Ex-Virginia police chief, cops accused of covering up sex-trafficking ring, procuring prostitutes: reports
Fox News via MSN ^ | 15-Jan-23 | Danielle Wallace
Posted on 1/16/2023, 3:46:36 AM by Erik Latranyi

The former police chief of Fairfax County, Virginia, and three ex-officers are on trial for allegedly covering up a sex trafficking ring, as one of the victims – an illegal immigrant – took the stand accusing the four law enforcement members of being clients of the prostitution enterprise they allegedly allowed to operate.

A federal jury in Alexandria, Va., this week heard testimony from a woman, identified as Jane Doe, during a civil trial against four former members of the Fairfax County Police Department: the former Chief Edwin Roessler, James Baumstark, a former captain who is now the deputy chief in Asheville, North Carolina, and officers Michael Barbazette and Jason Mardocco, FOX 5 DC reported. None of the four men have been criminally charged, and a lawyer for Roessler and Baumstark dismissed the allegations as "preposterous."

The woman testified that she was lured from Costa Rica by Hazel Sanchez to come to Virginia to work as a nanny and high-end escort who would spend time with wealthy clients but did not necessarily have to have sex with them. Instead, according to Sanchez’s 2019 guilty plea, women were forced to have sex with as many as 17 men a day, including being subjected to dangerous and degrading sex acts.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...

Soul Crusher:
FBI's record of policing itself against China's spies is abysmal, new book SpyFail reveals
American Thinker ^ | 01/18/2023 | Monica Showalter
Posted on 1/18/2023, 1:41:13 PM b

The news is full of tut-tutting about the terribleness of President Trump, and now Joe Biden, supposedly mishandling a few classified documents by having them in their possession, which is usually a matter of them wanting to write their memoirs, so far as we know.

Now a new book came out yesterday by James Bamford, called SpyFail, telling us how little care the FBI has taken with its own classified documents.  Its clumsy maneuvers, bad personnel hiring practices, and misplaced priorities pretty well gave away the store of U.S. secrets targeting China.

According to BusinessInsider, which ran a long and interesting book excerpt by Bamford himself:

The FBI's website carries a stark warning. "The counterintelligence and economic espionage efforts emanating from the government of China," it says, "are a grave threat to the economic well-being and democratic values of the United States. Confronting this threat is the FBI's top counterintelligence priority." But far worse is the threat to the lives of scores of courageous Chinese agents who have volunteered to spy for the U.S. within their own country. Over the past decade, more than a dozen agents recruited by the CIA have been killed or imprisoned.

And it now turns out that it was an alleged Chinese spy within the FBI's own counterintelligence division who may have been largely responsible. A spy whose activities went undetected for upwards of two decades, until his quiet arrest in 2020. Currently in a Hawaiian jail, his little-known case is wrapped in layers of secrecy as he awaits trail. Now in his new book, "SPYFAIL: Foreign Spies, Moles, Saboteurs and the Collapse of America's Counterintelligence," author James Bamford peels back many of those hidden layers.


(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...

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The FBI interrogated a Delta pilot for an hour in his hotel bathroom, thinking he was part of a training exercise. He wasn't.
Not The Bee ^ | Apr 6, 2023 | Staff
Posted on 4/6/2023, 2:30:32 PM by Red Badger

It's a time-honored rule: When staying in a hotel, always check to make sure you've got the right room number.

That goes double if you're breaking down the door:

NY POST Tweet:

FBI agents handcuff, interrogate Delta pilot after entering wrong hotel room in training mishap https://trib.al/MIS6uvn

A Boston hotel guest was awakened in the middle of the night by federal agents who barged into his room, handcuffed him, threw him into the shower and interrogated him for an hour — before they realized they had entered the wrong room.

So it seems these consummate professional were engaged in a training exercise in which they were supposed to barge into the hotel room, toss a paid actor into the bathroom, and grill him for a while.

I don't exactly know why this is part of the FBI's training repertoire. What exactly is this supposed to teach the agents? How to interrogate a dude on the payroll? There's no field application there. It's kind of beyond me.

Also beyond me is how federal agents could do something as basically stupid as get the wrong room number. But they did:

They pushed into the room, handcuffed the pilot and reportedly put him in the shower, according to the station.

Then the agents interrogated the man, said to be in his 30s, for nearly an hour until they realized they had the wrong guy.

You just have to imagine how that poor guy felt being on the receiving end of what he imagined was a legitimate FBI interrogation.

And you just got to love picturing the other guy waiting in his hotel room for the FBI agents to show up, wondering where the heck they were.

Let's hope this guy parlays his troubles into a hefty payout from the dunderheaded FBI!

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