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Category Archives: FBI
New Yorker: Malcolm Gladwell on the seductive appeal—and shaky science—behind the F.B.I.’s criminal profilers and their “mind reading.”
Malcolm Gladwell wrote in 2007: Douglas and Ressler didn’t interview a representative sample of serial killers to come up with their typology. They talked to whoever happened to be in the neighborhood. Nor did they interview their subjects according to … Continue reading
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Decoding The FBI
The FBI isn’t “broken” or “heroic”—it’s a rational actor optimizing for survival in an elite alliance network. That explains both its procedural piety and its clashes with mass movements. If Alliance Theory holds, expecting apolitical neutrality from such an institution … Continue reading
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G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
Here are some highlights from this 2022 book: * While the celebration of the “new detective” reflected certain genuine changes, it also drew upon a more reactionary strain of 1920s politics. The image of expert and gentleman rested on some … Continue reading
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How Does The FBI Look Now?
Comments at Steve Sailer: * I call it the “John Roberts’ Solution.” * Comey said that no reasonable prosecutor would bring a case. He is right about that. Hillary wouldn’t be prosecuted unless they had video of her running someone … Continue reading
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The FBI’s problem with Muslim leaders
Is it best to deform our society with increased surveillance and government regulation or reduce diversity and the number of people who live here who are likely to hate us so much that they will hurt us? Ronald Kessler writes: … Continue reading
FBI Drops ADL, SPLCC As Hate Resources
VDARE comments. The Washington Examiner reports: The Southern Poverty Law Center, which has labeled several Washington, D.C.-based family organizations as “hate groups” for favoring traditional marriage, has been dumped as a “resource” on the FBI’s Hate Crime Web page, a … Continue reading
Fort Hood Massacre
The New York Times reports: WASHINGTON — A Senate committee on Thursday opened the first public hearings into the Fort Hood shootings, with several legislators asserting that the incident in which 13 people were killed was a terrorist attack by … Continue reading
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Tagged congressional hearings, Fort Hood, Frances Fragos Townsend, homeland security, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, Senate committee, senator joseph lieberman
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Yisroel Pensack: Yemen-Based, Anti-American Muslim Cleric Linked to Fort Hood Suspect Had Connection to 9-11 Hijackers While in U.S.
The New York Times reports: WASHINGTON — Intelligence agencies intercepted communications last year and this year between the military psychiatrist accused of shooting to death 13 people at Fort Hood, Tex., and a radical cleric in Yemen known for his … Continue reading
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Tagged 9-11, Anwar al-Awlaki, Colorado, Fort Hood, hijackers, imam, Jarret Brachman, Jihad, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, mosque, muslim, New Mexico, San Diego, Sept. 11 commission, Virginia, Yemen
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FBI Investigating Boeing Scientist & Devout Orthodox Jew For Friendly Spying For Israel?
Vic Walter and Eric Longabardi Report For ABC News: Agents in the FBI’s foreign counterintelligence unit have opened a criminal investigation into the handling of classified material by a senior scientist at Boeing. The scientist, Abraham Lesnik, of suburban Los … Continue reading