- Top Features:
- War Room
- Glenn Greenwald
- Broadsheet
- Joan Walsh
- Camille Paglia
- Since You Asked
- Follow Salon:
Letters posted here are associated with the following Salon Premium Member:
Published Letters: 2
from the WSJ via Geo. Washington:
http://www.georgewashington2.blogspot.com/
I am a great fan of Tony Hillerman, but I have personal experience of a more sinister side of feds. 28 years ago a very good friend of mine disappeared from his job as a park ranger in southeast Arizona. He was on duty and went out to check the trails, a normal duty particularly in the quiet of a winter Sunday. It was assumed, with some witness testimony, that he had interrupted a drug transfer on an extremity of Chiracahua National Monument. He was federal law officer, having served at several park Service locations as the law-enforcement officer. the FBI declined to investigate, leaving the job to an overburdened rural county sheriff. At that time, the political scene in Arizona was dominated by drug trafficking (and may still be) as documented the Don Bolles case. Ironically in those Reagan years, the only big-time political help his wife received was from Sen. Barry Goldwater and from released convict John Ehlichman of Watergate fame. Don't assume incompetence, just follow the facts on this one.
