The rogue security agent whose actions helped spark the downfall of 2010 U.S. Senate candidate Joe Miller, a Fairbanks Republican, has finally revealed what he was thinking when he handcuffed an Alaska Dispatch reporter after a Miller rally in October 2010. What no one but William Fulton and a few federal official knew at the time was that Fulton was a paid informant working for the FBI, and apparently he had an agenda to undermine Miller’s campaign.
The story Fulton tells is now raising new and troubling questions about the behavior of Alaska FBI agents, who were already being investigated in 2010 for their roles in railroading the late U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, from office. Stevens was convicted in 2008 of failing to report more than $250,000 in gifts and subsequently lost election to now Sen. Mark Begich, D-Alaska. The guilty verdicts against Stevens were tossed the next spring, but his reputation remained sullied. He died in a plane crash in Southwest Alaska in August 2010 while fighting to clear his name.
As the Justice Department was investigating FBI actions in the Stevens case in the summer and fall of that year, the FBI had moved on to investigating Alaska militias. It hired Fulton, the owner of an Anchorage military surplus store called “Drop Zone” and a sometime-security consultant, to infiltrate those organizations. Fulton has now told the Huffington Post that he thought putting the cuffs on Tony Hopfinger, the co-owner and editor of Dispatch, while working for Miller, a conservative Republican, appeared a great idea. Fulton said it bolstered his image with the militias.
Read More at alaskadispatch.com . By Craig Medred.
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I don’t think the average American has the slightest inlinkg, or understanding about what is happening and what will happen in the U. S. A. as we are about to see the final phase of our over throw.
Hey Spiderman,
I don’t think anybody knows it all. I continue to think I know a lot about what is happening; with my knowledge of history and my 20 years of military experience (with special ops experience) and now, my being a cop. But I still get hit over the head with new things (conspiracy plans) almost every day. It seems like the bad guys have no end to their imaginations and the things they come up with to grind our country into the ground. That is why I feel that the time for negotiations is over. Now it is time to prepare. There are those who will still try to negotiate, and that is good. If they are strong enough, they can delay this process. But, it gives me more time to prepare for the inevitable.
we know and where preparing the best we can to, where just hoping that all the police and military are not like obama and fallow illegal order`s to destroy are 2nd admendment, this will end in a civil war and we know that all the blacks on the street so called honest blacks and the criminal element of the black society, will back obama. And i will tell you there are a lot of people ready to back the police and military out here that took an oath to up hold the laws of the land foreign and domestic. Its just that some of us will have to use what ever we can get are hands on so be it . where here to back you guy`s we just need some organization. before obama`s goon squad`s come if they do! well see
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