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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Arthur Radley who wrote (485171)	11/2/2003 11:06:21 AM
From: Wayners	Respond to of 769667

Clinton's justice Dept. got the criminals in the FBI responsible for Ruby Ridge off the hook. During the Clinton Administration Federal police officers were close to 10 percent of the nations total law enforcement force. Fifty-three separate federal agencies had the authority to carry firearms and make arrests. This represented an enormous expansion in terms of both personnel and jurisdiction with little systematic oversight and review of federal police practices. This led to numerous cases of serious abuse--some well-publicized and some relatively unknown--in which the following problems were evident: improper use of deadly force; physical and verbal abuse; use of para-military and strike force units or tactics without justification; use of "no-knock" entrances without justification; inadequate investigation of allegations of misconduct; use of unreliable informants without sufficient verification of their allegations; use of "contingency payments" to informants, giving them an incentive to fabricate information since payment is usually contingent upon conviction; entrapment; unnecessary inducement of criminal activities as an investigative technique; inappropriate and disproportionate use of forfeiture proceedings to obtain financing for law enforcement equipment and activities; use of military units and equipment in the course of domestic law enforcement; pretextual use of immigration laws and Immigration and Naturalization Service personnel for non-immigration law enforcement. And all these abuses directed again those who did not vote for Clinton.