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27th January 2004, 09:20 AM
Continuing developments in the "terror" trial:
Ashcroft's misbehavior and other trial irregularities were discussed here
http://www.randi.org/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=17820
Now it comes out that the FBI, its informant, and the lead prosecutor are suspected of "irregularities."
Add it all up, and be grateful for the Constitution.
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FBI tipster says he broke law
He claims agent directed him to steal mail from Arabs considered terror suspects
By David Shepardson / The Detroit News
DEARBORN — A confidential federal informant claims an FBI agent instructed him to break the law as part of the government’s terror investigations in Metro Detroit.
In a Jan. 21 letter, written at the airport as he left for an undisclosed foreign country, informant Marwan Farhat said he was asked by FBI Special Agent Robert Pertuso to steal mail from Arab Muslims whom the federal government had identified as terror suspects.
Farhat, of Dearborn, claimed in a six-page letter to Pertuso that the FBI failed to deliver on a promise to give Farhat 25 percent of any money confiscated from the terror suspects. In his letter, Farhat said he received nothing.
“I worked around the clock helping and assisting the government of the United States to put Muslims in jail,” wrote Farhat, who said he assisted the FBI in giving information on scores of Arabs. “My life has been destroyed, abused and used to benefit your interests.”
He handed the letter, which was obtained by The Detroit News, to a U.S. immigration agent as he caught a flight from Detroit Metropolitan Airport on Wednesday. Fearful for his safety, and with the government’s approval, Farhat left the United States days after his identity was publicly revealed.
Special Agent David Brooks, spokesman for the Detroit FBI office, declined to comment on Farhat’s allegations, as did a Justice Department spokesman and the U.S. Attorney’s Office. The FBI would not answer questions about agent Pertuso’s status, and he did not return a call placed by The News to his secretary.
Farhat is at the center of an internal investigation by the U.S. Justice Department into the conduct of Richard G. Convertino, the lead prosecutor in the nation’s first terror case to stem from the investigation of the September 11 terrorist attacks.
Two were convicted of providing material support to terrorists here.
Convertino is accused by his employer, the U.S. Attorney’s Office, of a laundry list of offenses stemming from his aggressive prosecution of suspected terrorists. He was removed Sept. 4 from the terror case — which continues as the judge considers reversing the convictions — and temporarily is working for a U.S. Senate committee.
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http://www.detnews.com/2004/metro/0401/27/a01-47324.htm
Ashcroft's misbehavior and other trial irregularities were discussed here
http://www.randi.org/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=17820
Now it comes out that the FBI, its informant, and the lead prosecutor are suspected of "irregularities."
Add it all up, and be grateful for the Constitution.
___________
FBI tipster says he broke law
He claims agent directed him to steal mail from Arabs considered terror suspects
By David Shepardson / The Detroit News
DEARBORN — A confidential federal informant claims an FBI agent instructed him to break the law as part of the government’s terror investigations in Metro Detroit.
In a Jan. 21 letter, written at the airport as he left for an undisclosed foreign country, informant Marwan Farhat said he was asked by FBI Special Agent Robert Pertuso to steal mail from Arab Muslims whom the federal government had identified as terror suspects.
Farhat, of Dearborn, claimed in a six-page letter to Pertuso that the FBI failed to deliver on a promise to give Farhat 25 percent of any money confiscated from the terror suspects. In his letter, Farhat said he received nothing.
“I worked around the clock helping and assisting the government of the United States to put Muslims in jail,” wrote Farhat, who said he assisted the FBI in giving information on scores of Arabs. “My life has been destroyed, abused and used to benefit your interests.”
He handed the letter, which was obtained by The Detroit News, to a U.S. immigration agent as he caught a flight from Detroit Metropolitan Airport on Wednesday. Fearful for his safety, and with the government’s approval, Farhat left the United States days after his identity was publicly revealed.
Special Agent David Brooks, spokesman for the Detroit FBI office, declined to comment on Farhat’s allegations, as did a Justice Department spokesman and the U.S. Attorney’s Office. The FBI would not answer questions about agent Pertuso’s status, and he did not return a call placed by The News to his secretary.
Farhat is at the center of an internal investigation by the U.S. Justice Department into the conduct of Richard G. Convertino, the lead prosecutor in the nation’s first terror case to stem from the investigation of the September 11 terrorist attacks.
Two were convicted of providing material support to terrorists here.
Convertino is accused by his employer, the U.S. Attorney’s Office, of a laundry list of offenses stemming from his aggressive prosecution of suspected terrorists. He was removed Sept. 4 from the terror case — which continues as the judge considers reversing the convictions — and temporarily is working for a U.S. Senate committee.
.......
http://www.detnews.com/2004/metro/0401/27/a01-47324.htm