FBI: More Leeches in the Bush Era?

They should call the Bush era the parasitic years. Seems like everybody from the top down are either sucking money from the treasury like bloated leeches, torturing somebody, killing somebody or everything in between.

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Audit highlights excessive FBI overtime in Iraq

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- FBI agents temporarily deployed to Iraq received an average of about $45,000 in excessive overtime because they billed the government for 16 hours a day throughout their 90-day assignments, according to a Justice Department audit.

The audit, released Thursday by Inspector General Glenn Fine, found the agents routinely submitted the overtime with the blessing of their managers from 2003 through 2007. The report says the excessive overtime totaled $7.8 million.."

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Another, probably silly question is has the FBI always been sent overseas for intelligence gathering?(yes I know I could Google it)

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FBI Plans To Infiltrate Protesters At GOP Convention

And then the trouble starts I bet. So they can arrest a bunch of otherwise peaceful protesters.

Moles Wanted
In preparation for the Republican National Convention, the FBI is soliciting informants to keep tabs on local protest groups


More at FDL.

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Anna Mae Aquash and the FBI

Unquiet Grave
The FBI and the Struggle for the Soul of Indian Country
-by Steve Hendricks



















AS THE FBI told the story, it happened like this.
On February 24, at a quarter to three in the afternoon, a rancher on that part of the South Dakota steppe that crumbles into the Badlands was looking for a place to run a fence line when he turned a bend in a gully and found, curled on its left side, clothed in a maroon jacket and blue jeans, and looking for all the world like someone sleeping in perfect peace,a corpse. Its place of rest was the bottom of an embankment twenty feet high and not fifty steps from Highway 73 but hidden from the road by the embankment. The nearest settlement lay ten miles to the southwest, at a smattering of chipboard federal houses called Wanblee; a few miles to the north, the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, on which the corpse rested,petered out into one of continental America’s emptier expanses. The body lay, if not in the precise middle of nowhere, hard on the edge of it..."

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