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A Century of Surveillance: An Interactive Timeline Of FBI Investigations (muckrock.com)
"Over a century of fear and filing cabinets" at the FBI has been exposed through six years of Freedom of Information Act requests. And now MuckRock founder (and long-time Slashdot reader) v3rgEz writes:
MuckRock recently published its 100th look into historical FBI files, and to celebrate they've also compiled a timeline of the FBI's history. It traces the rise and fall of J. Edgar Hoover as well as some of the Bureau's more questionable investigations into famous figures ranging from Steve Jobs to Hannah Arendt. Read the timeline, or browse through all of MuckRock's FBI FOIA work.
The FBI interviewed 29 people about Steve Jobs (after he was appointed to the President's Export Council in 1991), with several citing his "past drug use," and several individuals also saying Jobs would "distort reality."
The FBI interviewed 29 people about Steve Jobs (after he was appointed to the President's Export Council in 1991), with several citing his "past drug use," and several individuals also saying Jobs would "distort reality."
And yet FBI didn't bother to read Trumps stuff? And he can just go into the whitehouse, take control of the executive branch and he hasn't even put his assets into a blind trust (not that Trump Casino Panama or any 'Trump' branded property could ever be 'blind'ly held)!
Go read:
1. The accounts he's disclosed as part of tax disputes (real).
2. The accounts he's disclosed as required by foreign laws (e.g. UK Companies house), also real.
3. The partial reveal of company borrowing in his Election Disclosure Filing (borrowing from banks will be real, but the earnings numbers are lies).
4. Search the names of his foreign coinvestors, and read their ad-hoc claims of investments in Trump 'properties'.
5. Pull the revPar numbers for similar properties to get an idea of he true (non-Trump-lying) revenue.
You quickly find out that Trump co, is a Madoff style ponzi scheme.
Even a little common sense tells you the problem. e.g. he borrows yet another $19 million against Trump National Doral last year.
His attorney when fighting a tax demand says the property is worth only $75 million. A highest estimate puts it at $96 million.
His borrowing against it is $125 million (1.6x the actual value his own legal team claim!).
HE BROKE AND OVERMORTGAGED.
The income claimed in his election filing for that is ridiculous 10x the actual RevPAR of similar golf resorts (i.e. a lie).
So the mortgage profit is bigger than the real profit.
IF HE HAD MONEY HE'D LEND IT TO HIMSELF. SO HE'S BROKE.
Most of his properties have issues, if he sold them at best price, paid off his total borrowing, he'd be very very bankrupt, and there would be a lot of outside investors whose assets had been used as capital against unrelated properties.
He needs to keep pulling in new investors and making new projects to fund the debts on the previous projects. And he needs to do it in secret so the investors don't see where their money flows.
I wonder if anyone has considered that the FBI forced Richard Nixon to resign by feeding reporters information anonymously. "Deep Throat", it turns out, was the assistant FBI director. That rather important piece of information was kept from the public for almost 50 years. Long enough that a movie got made that portrayed Woodward and Bernstein as heroic reporters instead of pawns of the FBI. Why were they investigating Steve Jobs at all/ The answer is to get whatever dirt they could collect in case he ever posed a threat to their political agenda. The reality is the FBI has always been an authoritarian political organization.
There was a time that some of felt we weren't doing anything worthwhile unless the FBI had a file on us. We were young and stupid, but that didn't make us wrong.