Sorry for the long extract, but it’s all pretty interesting.

A Rare Salute to the Boston FBI for Refusing Jan. 6 Improper Investigations on Citizens
Howie Carr Show | February 12, 2023 | Howie Carr

The Boston office of the FBI finally got something right, and I salute them for doing so.

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A former FBI intelligence analyst from Boston testified that after the Jan. 6 disturbances, the Boston office adamantly refused to conduct improper investigations on American citizens whose only crime was (or might have been) being a supporter of Donald Trump.

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The FBI’s proposed targets for the Boston Field Office were seven New Englanders with Bank of America credit cards, as well as 140 people who took buses to Washington on Jan. 6 under the auspices of a woman from Natick who just got a 15-day prison sentence for her role in the “insurrection.”

Think about that. If you simply use the wrong bank’s credit card to purchase the wrong product, or even if you just hop on the wrong bus, the FBI may unleash the unlimited power of the federal government to destroy your life and throw you in prison.

Welcome to 1984, the Democrats’ dream, a free people’s nightmare.

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The showdown between the Boston and Washington FBI offices started when Bank of America decided to do a deep dive into its customers’ activities around Jan. 6. No subpoenas, it was just one cell of Democrat Deep State fellow travelers assisting their comrades at the J. Edgar Hoover Building.

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Hill continued: “BOA took it upon themselves to data-mine their customer base – bank credit cards, debit cards, and to see whether they had bought anything in DC, or purchased a plane ticket to DC around Jan. 6. If you showed up on either of those lists, and if you had ever purchased a firearm with one of their credit cards, whenever, then you went to the top of the list. There were no allegations of any crimes committed, only that the person was just using a legally-purchased product that they owned….”

But the Washington Field Office runs wide open, KGB-style, doing whatever must be done to advance the fundamental transformation of America. So the FBI comrades sorted the names by region and sent out directives to the outlying field offices.

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The Boston guys, God bless ‘em, pushed back. What exactly were the “predicate acts?” The Democrats in DC didn’t care about no stinkin’ rights. Just ask the owners of Betsy Ross flags, or Catholics who attend Latin Masses. They too have been deemed subversives by the FBI.

The briefers in Washington said, in effect, just open the cases and we’ll find out if they did anything.

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Then there were those 140 bus passengers. These were the people on the Super Happy Fun America trip out of Natick. Through the discovery process during the prosecution of the organizer, the feds had obtained the bus manifest – the passenger list.

So they did what any secret police anywhere in the Third World would do — they decided to go after everybody who’d gotten on the bus.

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“Washington wanted us to open up 140 ‘preliminary investigations,’” Hill said. “These weren’t people who were loading ammo and body armor onto the bus – they were taking a ride to Washington.”

When the feds identify a real Public Enemy – say, a Steve Bannon or Peter Navarro – they deploy search warrants, Title III wiretap authorizations, PEN registers on phones, pole cameras, etc. The Natick 140 didn’t rise to quite that level.

“These were supposed to be preliminary investigations, where you use the least intrusive measures. Search criminal history by name, social media, blog posts, that sort of thing.”

The Boston FBI office asked if they could see some of the Capitol surveillance video to determine if any of the Natick 140 warranted probes. The response was chilling:

“There may be some people in that footage whose identities that we need to protect.”

Can someone say, agents provocateur?