> On Friday, however, Assistant U.S. Attorney Todd Allison walked back the claim of an assassination plot, saying that while it “may very well be appropriate at a trial,” raising it at this stage could “mislead the court.”
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> We don’t have any direct evidence of kill/capture teams,” Sherwin said at a Friday news briefing.
NB: It never ceases to surprise me that people take the public statements of the FBI/DoJ with its long history of overzealous and often illegal overreaches very uncritically. We're talking about an organization (the FBI) that was controlled by one of the most corrupt men in US political history for nearly half of its existence - J Edgar Hoover. Nothing much has changed. It doesn't matter which side of the political spectrum you are, they are not your friend - they both tried to blackmail MLK into killing himself and sent snipers to murder a hard-right woman holding a baby at Ruby Ridge.
