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October 23rd, 2015 
Awake Goy 
Susanne Posel, Chief Editor Occupy Corporatism | Co-Founder, Legacy Bio-Naturals
October 23, 2015
James Comey, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) admitted to the House Judiciary Committee (HJC) that his agency spied on the Ferguson protests with aerial craft because of the requests from local law enforcement.
Comey clarified his revelation by stating that the FBI does not “fly planes around America looking down to see if somebody might be doing something wrong”; however that is exactly what the FBI did at Ferguson.
And because of this, the FBI did not obtain warrants before engaging because of a loophole in the process that rests on the notion that “planes do not capture or record the contents of any communications on the ground.”
Comey added: “The law is pretty clear that you don’t need a warrant for that kind of conversation.”
The planes used by the FBI apparently were tasked with watching specific suspects who were allegedly thought to be involved in criminal activity and under investigation for terrorism and espionage when the Ferguson police department asked the FBI to assist them in “developing situation[s]” such as riots.
Comey vehemently stated that the planes were not conducting surveillance, and yet the FBI sent aircraft to Ferguson in August of 2014 to watch over the protests against police because of the shooting of Michael Brown.
And then the FBI helped out again in Baltimore during the Freddie Gray protests.
The director of the FBI explained that his agency will be deployed “if there is tremendous turbulence in a community, it’s useful to everybody — civilians and law enforcement — to have a view of what’s going on. Where are the fires in this community? Where are people gathering? Where do people need help? And sometimes the best view of that is above rather than trying to look form a car in the street.”
Getting a bird’s eye view of police brutality protests is not the only issue the FBI takes to the skies to monitor.
Congressman John Conyers reminded Comey that “many citizens feel reason to distrust the FBI because of their religious or ethnic background.”
Conyers referred to Dearborn and the unwarranted monitoring of Muslim Americans from a single engine Cessna.
FBI planes flew over Dearborn mosques, the American Moslem Center and circled back across the eastern section of the city.
At the time of the fly – overs, Paul Abbate, special agent in charge at the FBI, sat down with Arab – American leaders simultaneously while Muslims denounced the surveillance.
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