FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

This was yet another warning about an area that became a major factor 4 years later in the Meltdown of 2008 and the Great Recession. The George W. Bush administration, however, rejected proposals to prevent more mortgage abuses by regulating the banks and mortgage brokerage industry more.

What America just could not believe that American Negroes were not satisfied with their second class status. So any organized Negro unrest must be caused by un-American and foreign influences or those of radicals like Socialists. The Socialists were among the first organized political groups to condemn the racism and discrimination of the day. Later, even at the crux of the civil rights movement in the 1960s, most Southerners maintained that all the dissatisfaction and unrest of Negroes was the result of “agitators,” “foreigners,” “socialists,” and “communists.”

See {637464} for the trigger for the FBI to write this report. It was the report that verified that the CIA had hired the Mafia to assassinate Fidel Castro which President Johnson had heard but the CIA never revealed it to Johnson or the Warren Commission investigations JFK’s assassination. The full document was kept secret and was not yet declassified in 2014 when this quotation was entered in the collection.

This statement is so absurd, that one marvels that an agency of the United States Government could publish such a statement. It was all the more embarrassing in that the FBI had as one of its objectives developing relationships with Muslim communities across the country. The FBI did withdraw the publication, but there were dozens of FBI officials who read this and approved its publication. They were either themselves Islamaphobic and/or extremely ignorant. One of the worst things about such a statement, is that it does not warn about one real problem that some extremist Muslims want modern Islamic states to adopt a literal view of the Koran which reflects 7th century values, knowledge, and culture. Those fundamentalists have kept modernism from changing and developing several Islamic countries. Most Muslims nations have very little that resembles 7th century Arabia and a nation like Turkey is more modern than many of the nations of Europe.

There were many Americans who accused Henry Ford of being a traitor but they never knew of his support of German Spies. They based their judgments on the fact that Ford was an outspoken admirer of Hitler and the Nazis and that Hitler had awarded Ford a Nazi medal, and the industrialist had accepted the award.

In 2005 terrorists exploded bombs in the Spanish Railroad system. Fingerprints were found on bombs. The FBI found that the prints belonged to Brandon Mayfield, an Oregon attorney who married an Islamic Egyptian woman; he also had a Muslim client. He was arrested and held without bail based on the FBI testimony about the quality of the fingerprint match the quotes from which are above. The Spanish police did not think that there was a match and kept investigating and found the bomber whose fingerprints matched the samples perfectly. Based on this embarrassing fact, Mayfield was released. The quotation shows that there were no accepted forensic science standards. Each fingerprint examiner, sets his own standards for what he will describe as a “perfect match” of 100% reliability. The FBI sworn expert testimony was 100% wrong. Forensic testimony came under suspicion; public opinion changed when people realized that fingerprinting is not the objective reliable identifier that they thought. See linked quotes.

This was the typical language of the 1940’s and 1950’s at the height of the Red Scare used by the FBI and others to smear their opponents and political enemies. Seldes had published an article very critical of the FBI and its investigations of labor unions and other liberal organizations. See George Seldes, 1940 quotation.

In 2005 terrorists exploded bombs in the Spanish Railroad system. Fingerprints were found on bombs. The FBI found that the prints belonged to Brandon Mayfield, an Oregon attorney who married an Islamic Egyptian woman; he also had a Muslim client. He was arrested and held without bail based on the FBI testimony about the quality of the fingerprint match the quotes from which are above. The Spanish police did not think that there was a match and kept investigating and found the bomber whose fingerprints matched the samples perfectly. Based on this embarrassing fact, Mayfield was released. The quotation shows that there were no accepted forensic science standards. Each fingerprint examiner, sets his own standards for what he will describe as a “perfect match” of 100% reliability. The FBI sworn expert testimony was 100% wrong. Forensic testimony came under suspicion; public opinion changed when people realized that fingerprinting is not the objective reliable identifier that they thought. See linked quotes.

Although the FBI had identified the emerging Nazi danger in the United States as early as 1933, the military, and the Congress were not aware of their findings. Nor were the media and the public.

There were many Americans who accused Henry Ford of being a traitor but they never knew of his support of German Spies. They based their judgments on the fact that Ford was an outspoken admirer of Hitler and the Nazis and that Hitler had awarded Ford a Nazi medal, and the industrialist had accepted the award.

What America just could not believe that American Negroes were not satisfied with their second class status. So any organized Negro unrest must be caused by un-American and foreign influences or those of radicals like Socialists. The Socialists were among the first organized political groups to condemn the racism and discrimination of the day. Later, even at the crux of the civil rights movement in the 1960s, most Southerners maintained that all the dissatisfaction and unrest of Negroes was the result of “agitators,” “foreigners,” “socialists,” and “communists.”

This was the typical language of the 1940’s and 1950’s at the height of the Red Scare used by the FBI and others to smear their opponents and political enemies. Seldes had published an article very critical of the FBI and its investigations of labor unions and other liberal organizations. See George Seldes, 1940 quotation.

Lennon was one of the Beatles, the English singing group so popular at the time. However, like so many others, he was outspoken against the Vietnam War and the treatment of the Chicago 7. The Nixon administration tried to have him deported, but failed due to adverse court hearings. However, the FBI assembled a huge file on him because of his anti administration views. Lennon had donated money to an organization organizing a Protest at the Republican National Convention and the FBI tried to argue that he was helping to foment violence. He retained his residency in the U. S. His child was born in America and he himself was assassinated in America. This particular quotation is often used by the critics and opponents of the FBI by pointing out the historically they have treated left wing extremists as dangerous but ignored right wing extremists until the 1970s but even then were much more tolerant of the latter.

This statement is so absurd, that one marvels that an agency of the United States Government could publish such a statement. It was all the more embarrassing in that the FBI had as one of its objectives developing relationships with Muslim communities across the country. The FBI did withdraw the publication, but there were dozens of FBI officials who read this and approved its publication. They were either themselves Islamaphobic and/or extremely ignorant. One of the worst things about such a statement, is that it does not warn about one real problem that some extremist Muslims want modern Islamic states to adopt a literal view of the Koran which reflects 7th century values, knowledge, and culture. Those fundamentalists have kept modernism from changing and developing several Islamic countries. Most Muslims nations have very little that resembles 7th century Arabia and a nation like Turkey is more modern than many of the nations of Europe.

See {637464} for the trigger for the FBI to write this report. It was the report that verified that the CIA had hired the Mafia to assassinate Fidel Castro which President Johnson had heard but the CIA never revealed it to Johnson or the Warren Commission investigations JFK’s assassination. The full document was kept secret and was not yet declassified in 2014 when this quotation was entered in the collection.

This was yet another warning about an area that became a major factor 4 years later in the Meltdown of 2008 and the Great Recession. The George W. Bush administration, however, rejected proposals to prevent more mortgage abuses by regulating the banks and mortgage brokerage industry more.