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The FBI Polices Itself Like Kids Guarding a Candy Store
Loaded on July 17, 2019
by Edward Lyon
published in Criminal Legal News
August, 2019, page 36
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United States of America.
by Ed Lyon
In the early 1970s, an armed team entered a Stockholm, Sweden, bank to rescue hostages being held by bank robbers, as well as to, hopefully, arrest the robbers.
To the rescuers’ shock and surprise, the hostages took up weapons with their captors to fight against ...
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