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> almost never abuses of power or denial of rights.

Here is the modus operandi of the FBI. They bring a person in for an interview. Two agents interview a person. One agent asks all the questions, while the other keeps a written record of the interview. No audio tapes of the interview are made. At the end of the interview, the official and only record of the interview is the written account prepared by the FBI agent doing the recording.

None of the above is in dispute. Now for the part that you are free to ignore.

The FBI will then interview the same person at a later date, using the same method. They will then comb through the two accounts of the interviews, looking for discrepancies. Amazingly, they will find discrepancies. They will then bring the subject back in, tell the subject that he or she has "lied" to the FBI, a federal offense with non-trivial punishment. The subject will then be "invited" to work off this infraction by becoming an FBI informant.

The FBI does this again and again.

Maybe it's just me, but that's not cricket, my good man.



Can you refuse to be interviewed without a lawyer?

There is a famous video "Don't talk to police" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc


You're totally wrong. Current FBI policy is to record all interviews.




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