August 11. 2009

Two weeks ago, I wrote that blogger Hal Turner was not just an FBI informant, but a paid one. Yesterday, his lawyer confirmed in court what I alleged two weeks - Turner was on the FBI's payroll.

Some informants cut remuneration-free deals to stay out of prison, when the FBI catches them committing a crime. They do so with the proviso, they will avoid prison, in exchange for doing dirty work for the Bureau. However, some are paid informants, who receive tens of thousands of dollars.

And this ladies a gentlemen, is how the FBI is spending your tax dollars, lavishing it on lawbreakers.

But, then the FBI will take the stingy route, in obtaining certain types of valuable information, by illegally pulling wiretaps on scholars, scientists and journalists, when they want to unlawfully use law abiding citizens as informants, without their knowledge or permission, which is out of line.

Man accused of threatening judges was a paid informant for the FBI

August 11, 2009 - A lightning-rod Internet blogger and radio host out of New Jersey was a paid FBI informant, once turned over a silencer to the feds and even passed on information about a threat against President Obama.

But none of that is enough to get him out of jail now, a federal judge ruled Monday. U.S. District Judge Martin Ashman said Hal Turner -- accused of threatening to assault and murder three federal judges -- is still a danger to the community.

Ashman said the fact that Turner from his New Jersey prison cell managed to record and post on the Internet a telephone conversation that included the names of his arresting FBI agents "tells me something about the disposition of Mr. Turner."

Ashman denied Turner's request to have FBI agents testify at his bond hearing. Ashman's ruling came despite Monday's revelation by Turner's lawyers that the FBI paid Turner "tens of thousands of dollars" to work as an informant from 2002 to 2005. Last year, Turner told a U.S. marshal of a threat by someone to lob mortars into Grant Park during Obama's election celebration...

http://www.suntimes.com