{"id":9612,"date":"2010-11-05T16:10:10","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T23:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/?p=9612"},"modified":"2017-12-19T00:36:13","modified_gmt":"2017-12-19T07:36:13","slug":"as-rudy-giuliani-lies-about-fbi-leaks-read-the-story-of-how-back-in-1976-he-killed-an-atf-case-against-an-fbi-agent-accused-of-illegal-gun-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/?p=9612","title":{"rendered":"As Giuliani lies about FBI leaks, read the story of how, back in 1976, he killed an ATF case which accused an FBI agent of illegal gun sales."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"As%20Giuliani%20lies%20about%20FBI%20leaks%2C%20read%20the%20story%20of%20how%2C%20back%20in%201976%2C%20he%20killed%20an%20ATF%20case%20which%20accused%20an%20FBI%20agent%20of%20illegal%20gun%20sales.\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Rudy-Fox-News-10.278.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-9615\" title=\"Rudy Fox News 10.278\" src=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Rudy-Fox-News-10.278.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"489\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Rudy-Fox-News-10.278.png 679w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Rudy-Fox-News-10.278-300x172.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 489px) 100vw, 489px\" \/><\/a>By Peter Lance November 5th.<\/strong> <a title=\"HuffPost\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/rudy-guiliani-backpedals-fbi-emails_us_581d0397e4b0aac624848977\"><strong>The Huffington Post\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>reported last night that Trump advisor Rudy Giuliani changed his story yesterday about how he&#8217;d spoken to active duty FBI agents in the days prior to Director James Comey&#8217;s bombshell <strong><a title=\"Comey letter\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/post-nation\/wp\/2016\/10\/28\/read-the-letter-comey-sent-to-fbi-employees-explaining-his-controversial-decision-on-the-clinton-email-investigation\/\">letter to Congress<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>which has narrowed the presidential race in favor of Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>That HuffPost by Chris D&#8217;Angelo contains links to the various interviews Giuliani did on <strong>Fox News,<a title=\"Fox &amp; Friends\" href=\"http:\/\/usuncut.com\/politics\/rudy-giuliani-fbi-leaking-info\/\"> Fox and Friends<\/a>,<\/strong>\u00a0and the <a title=\"Lars Larson\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/nathaniel-meyersohn\/rudy-giuliani\"><strong>Lars Larson radio program<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0proving that he lied to\u00a0<a title=\"Wolf 5.4.16\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/11\/04\/politics\/rudy-giuliani-hillary-clinton-email-fbi\/\"><strong>CNN&#8217;s Wolf Blitzer<\/strong> <\/a>yesterday when he said that he&#8217;d only spoken to<em> former<\/em> FBI agents and none that were active duty.<\/p>\n<p>After you read that piece, take a look at what I reported on Giuliani in<a title=\"Deal Amazon\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Deal-Devil-Secret-Thirty-Year-Relationship\/dp\/0061455369\"><strong> &#8220;Deal With The Devil&#8221;<\/strong><\/a> my fourth book for HarperCollins in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>It focuses on the Bureau&#8217;s 30+ year secret relationship with Colombo crime family capo Gregory, &#8220;The Killing Machine&#8221; Scarpa Sr. who was protected for 12 years by Supervisory Special Agent<a title=\"salon.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2013\/06\/30\/its_not_just_whitey_bulger_meet_another_mafia_killer_aided_for_decades_by_the_fbi\/\"><strong> R. Lindley Devecchio<\/strong> <\/a>in a scenario I described for <a title=\"U.S. News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/opinion\/articles\/2013\/09\/12\/the-consequences-of-the-fbi-deal-with-mafia-killer-gregory-scarpa-sr\"><strong>U.S. News &amp; World Report<\/strong><\/a> as &#8220;The Whitey Bulger Story on Steroids.&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Deal-Devil-Secret-Thirty-Year-Relationship\/dp\/0061455369\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-9613\" title=\"Deal Cover with Scarpa Lin caption\" src=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Deal-Cover-with-Scarpa-Lin-caption.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"283\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Deal-Cover-with-Scarpa-Lin-caption.png 354w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Deal-Cover-with-Scarpa-Lin-caption-194x300.png 194w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 283px) 100vw, 283px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During a relationship that began in the early 80&#8217;s and ended shortly before Scarpa&#8217;s death in 1994, the evidence I uncovered demonstrated that DeVecchio had repeatedly leaked intelligence to the mad dog killer who once boasted that he&#8217;d &#8220;stopped counting&#8221; after fifty hits. In fact, multiple special agents working under DeVecchio in the FBI&#8217;s New York Office came forward in the early 1990&#8217;s accusing him of the leaks.<\/p>\n<p>Those accusations led to an investigation of DeVecchio by the Bureau&#8217;s Office of Professional Responsibility. But after Lin was granted immunity he took the Fifth and refused to take a polygraph &#8212; standard FBI protocol in such matters. The OPR ended with no charges filed against him and DeVecchio retired with a full pension.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DEVECCHIO AND GIULIANI<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the mid 1980&#8217;s Rudolph Giuliani appointed DeVecchio &#8220;case&#8221; or lead agent on the <a title=\"Wiki\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mafia_Commission_Trial\"><strong>&#8220;Mafia Commission&#8221; prosecution<\/strong> <\/a>which led to the conviction of three of the five New York crime family bosses and their subordinates propelling Giuliani, then U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, into Gracie Mansion.<\/p>\n<p>As &#8220;Deal&#8221; recounts, in March of 2006 DeVecchio was indicted on four counts of murder conspiracy by the Brooklyn D.A. stemming from his alleged &#8220;unholy alliance&#8221; with Scarpa Sr. who had eluded indictment for years despite the best efforts of federal prosecutors in Chicago, New Jersey and Brooklyn to put him away.<\/p>\n<p>In the fall of 2007 DeVecchio&#8217;s trial ended abruptly after tapes surfaced which seemed to question the credibility of Linda Schiro, Scarpa&#8217;s common-law wife, who&#8217;d been a key prosecution witness.<\/p>\n<p>But as I reported in &#8220;Deal,&#8221; building on the work of Alan Feuer in\u00a0<a title=\"NYT\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/04\/15\/nyregion\/for-exfbi-agent-accused-in-murders-a-case-of-what-might-have-been.html\"><strong>The New York Times<\/strong>,<\/a> in 1976 while he was an Associate Deputy Attorney General in the Reagan Justice Department Giuliani personally intervened to kill an indictment of DeVecchio by the U.S. Attorney in Baltimore after Lin, an avid gun collector, made an illegal sale of German Lugars to a pair of undercover ATF agents in the parking lot of a gun show.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, long before he became the crusading mob-busting U.S. Attorney for The SDNY, Rudy Giuliani had intervened when lower ranking DOJ officials had earnestly sought to indict Devecchio.<\/p>\n<p>That story should prove enlightening when considering whether Giuliani might have been willing, in the final days of the campaign, to exploit leaks from disgruntled agents in The FBI&#8217;s New York Office. The following is an excerpt from Chapter Ten of &#8220;Deal The The Devil.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Screen-Shot-2016-11-05-at-4.24.57-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-9628\" title=\"Screen Shot 2016-11-05 at 4.24.57 PM\" src=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Screen-Shot-2016-11-05-at-4.24.57-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"427\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Screen-Shot-2016-11-05-at-4.24.57-PM.png 592w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Screen-Shot-2016-11-05-at-4.24.57-PM-300x236.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The German Lugar Bust:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gregory Scarpa Sr. was an expert marksman. He not only loved guns, he also sold them. One investigator told writer Bob Drury that Scarpa personally tested the illegal weapons, mostly rifles, that he and his crew sold \u201cto make sure anybody that bought a gun from him wasn\u2019t getting a raw deal.\u201d Later, during the third Colombo war, Scarpa rigged a vehicle with compartments concealing shotguns, rifles, and pistols.<\/p>\n<p>He cruised the streets in this \u201cdeath car,\u201d using it to knock off his rivals. In his book, Lin DeVecchio reveals a similar affinity for firearms. \u201cFrom the first time I fired a pistol, I loved shooting and I loved guns,\u201d he writes. He claims to be a \u201ccrack shot,\u201d indeed \u201cone of the better shots in the Bureau.\u201d And, again like Scarpa, DeVecchio didn\u2019t just use guns, he sold them.<\/p>\n<p>In early 1976, at a time when his FBI salary was likely under $40,000, DeVecchio was arrested by undercover agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) for selling two German Lugers valued at $60,000.<\/p>\n<p>According to a story published thirty years later by New York Times reporter Alan Feuer, the arrest occurred \u201cwhen Mr. DeVecchio traveled from New York to King of Prussia, Pa., to sell a Nazi-era Luger at the Valley Forge Gun Show.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In testimony under oath at a 1997 federal court hearing, DeVecchio admitted that while working as an active-duty agent he regularly attended gun shows \u201cin different parts of the United States\u201d with a gun dealer who was a friend of his.<\/p>\n<p>Asked by defense lawyer Gerald Shargel if he had \u201ctold people, including undercover agents,\u201d that he was a \u201csilent partner\u201d with the dealer, DeVecchio said, \u201cNo. Nothing like that.\u201d In his memoir<a title=\"&quot;We're Going To Win&quot;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Were-Going-Win-This-Thing\/dp\/0425246094\"><strong>, &#8220;We&#8217;re Going To Win This Thing,&#8221;<\/strong> <\/a>DeVecchio insists that he sold only one Luger to an ATF agent and that he did it on behalf of the \u201cgrieving wife\u201d of a thirty-six-year-old medical doctor killed in a car crash. \u201cAll the proceeds went to her,\u201d he writes.<\/p>\n<p>In court, DeVecchio admitted that he made the sale in the parking lot of the gun show, without filing the requisite paperwork, and that he asked \u201cto be paid in cash or to have checks made out to cash.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When confronted by Shargel at the hearing with documents from the case in which the ATF agents reportedly accused him of making \u201cincomplete or false statements,\u201d DeVecchio testified that he \u201ccouldn\u2019t recall\u201d that.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, in the course of the two-day hearing, he responded, \u201cI don\u2019t recall,\u201d or words to that effect, more than fifty times.<\/p>\n<p>Admitting that he sold two guns (which would have been in violation of federal firearms statutes), DeVecchio was asked by Shargel whether the widow\u2019s entire collection wasn\u2019t worth closer to $ 250,000. He replied, \u201cThat was handled by the gun dealer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shargel<\/strong>: With you, wasn\u2019t that right?<\/p>\n<p><strong>DeVecchio:<\/strong> Not all the time. I was not always present with him.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shargel<\/strong>: Didn\u2019t you tell the agents that you were in for a commission?<\/p>\n<p><strong>DeVecchio:<\/strong> I don\u2019t recall what I said to them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shargel<\/strong>: You don\u2019t recall?<\/p>\n<p><strong>DeVecchio:<\/strong> No it was twenty-two years ago. I don\u2019t recall that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shargel:<\/strong> Well how many different checks did you cash. Do you recall?<\/p>\n<p><strong>DeVecchio<\/strong>: I have no idea.<\/p>\n<p>By statute it\u2019s a felony, punishable by up to five years in prison on each count, for \u201cany person except a . . . licensed dealer to engage in the business of . . . dealing in firearms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As reporter Feuer reported, \u201cWithout a license, [DeVecchio] moved through the stalls of the firearms bazaar, and was soon approached by Michael Flax, an undercover agent with [ATF].\u201d Flax told Feuer that his job was to troll the shows in plainclothes looking for illicit deals and that in 1976 \u201cseveral people he caught similarly selling guns without paperwork went to prison.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Flax, who is now retired, told Feuer that his modus operandi for undercover buys was to approach prospective unlicensed sellers and say, \u201cGee I\u2019d like to get this gun. . . . Do we have to go through all the paperwork?\u201d According to Feuer, Flax said that he bought one Luger from DeVecchio in the parking lot, and after a multiweek investigation \u201ca second agent secretly recorded the F.B.I. man selling another gun.\u201d Flax told Feuer that at one point DeVecchio \u201cgave him a phone number at which he might be reached. It was, he said, an office of the New York F.B.I.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As Feuer reported, \u201ca few weeks later, Mr. Flax brought the case to [Daniel M.] Clements, then a young federal prosecutor in Baltimore.\u201d \u201cFlax comes to me saying, \u2018You\u2019re not going to believe this,\u2019\u201d Clements told Feuer, \u201c\u2018 I have an F.B.I. agent selling guns illegally.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>GIULLIANI INTERVENES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But as he moved forward to prosecute, Clements recalled, he was thwarted by Rudolph W. Giuliani, then a thirty-two-year-old aide to Judge Harold Tyler, the deputy attorney general in Washington. After being asked by Giuliani to prepare a pair of memoranda on the case, Clements told Feuer that he met with the aide twice.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Screen-Shot-2016-11-05-at-4.24.04-PM1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-9629\" title=\"Screen Shot 2016-11-05 at 4.24.04 PM\" src=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Screen-Shot-2016-11-05-at-4.24.04-PM1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"395\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Screen-Shot-2016-11-05-at-4.24.04-PM1.png 564w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Screen-Shot-2016-11-05-at-4.24.04-PM1-300x245.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 395px) 100vw, 395px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At both meetings, \u201cMr. Giuliani repeated his desire not to prosecute the case, saying the guns were old and the sale of them without paperwork did not warrant prosecution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So ultimately, just as with the series of Justice Department indictments of Gregory Scarpa, the illegal gun sale case against Lin DeVecchio (in Flax\u2019s words) \u201cwent away.\u201d In his memoir, DeVecchio writes off the incident as a kind of technicality.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I sold one to an undercover agent who was scouting the gun shows trying to buy from people who didn\u2019t file the appropriate paperwork. It was like shooting fish in a barrel because so many of the collectors didn\u2019t want to be on record in case their guns were later restricted by new gun control statutes to the point where they couldn\u2019t resell them. And some of these people had tens of thousands of dollars tied up in their collections. Well, I was one of the fish that got shot in the barrel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But his claim that he sold just one Luger is inconsistent with his testimony in 1997, when he admitted to selling two. 31 Further, in another section of that testimony, referring back to the \u00a0Luger arrest, DeVecchio claimed ignorance of the law:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shargel<\/strong>: You know that was a violation and it was found by the investigating authorities that you had violated section 922 of Title 18. You know that, right?<\/p>\n<p><strong>DeVecchio:<\/strong> I know that now. . . . I didn\u2019t know it at that time. I wouldn\u2019t have violated it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shargel:<\/strong> You didn\u2019t know you were breaking the law at the time you were doing it?<\/p>\n<p><strong>DeVecchio:<\/strong> That\u2019s correct.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shargel:<\/strong> Did you know at the time that knowledge wasn\u2019t an element under the subsection of 922?<\/p>\n<p><strong>DeVecchio:<\/strong> I don\u2019t know what the Act reads or all the paragraphs in them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shargel:<\/strong> Are you aware as you sit here now, Judge Harold Tyler[,] then with the United States Department of Justice, concluded that you had clearly violated the law; and only as a matter of discretion you would not be indicted.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DeVecchio:<\/strong> I had no knowledge of that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>GIULIANI&#8217;S\u00a0SELECTIVE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAW<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We can only speculate about how Lin DeVecchio might have treated a Mafioso who claimed he wasn\u2019t aware of a law he\u2019d broken. But the important point here is that early on, Rudy Giuliani decided that Lin DeVecchio was an agent worth protecting, just as top FBI officials found Greg Scarpa worthy of special treatment.<\/p>\n<p>In the mid-1980s, when Giuliani, then the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, declared war on the Mafia, DeVecchio returned the favor by using Greg Scarpa to provide the probable cause that legalized most of the wiretaps used to convict three family bosses in the Commission case.<\/p>\n<p>That prosecution helped solidify Giuliani\u2019s reputation as a crime buster and advanced his political career exponentially.<\/p>\n<p>Years later, in 2007, when DeVecchio faced four counts of murder following his indictment by the Brooklyn DA, the Justice Department delivered for him again by paying for part of his legal bill, which was estimated at the time to be $450,000.33.<\/p>\n<p>For those fees to be approved, the U.S. attorney general himself, or his designee, had to conclude that DeVecchio\u2019s actions were within the \u201cscope\u201d of his employment at the Bureau and that the payment of the fees was \u201cin the interest of the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith Scarpa and DeVecchio,\u201d says attorney Gerald Shargel, \u201cthe law was being selectively enforced. In protecting Greg from his many crimes, the Bureau was shielding a Mafia killer. In allowing DeVecchio to escape prosecution for the illegal gun sales, the Justice Department was protecting an FBI agent. In both instances the intervention was legally and morally wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Giuliani\u2019s help to DeVecchio in the German Luger case was a variation on the mysterious quid pro quo that had insulated Greg Scarpa Sr. So as the Grim Reaper began his twelve-year association with \u201cMr. Organized Crime,\u201d the two men shared much more than a love for guns.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Screen-Shot-2016-11-05-at-4.09.10-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9618\" title=\"Screen Shot 2016-11-05 at 4.09.10 PM\" src=\"http:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Screen-Shot-2016-11-05-at-4.09.10-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"492\" height=\"479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Screen-Shot-2016-11-05-at-4.09.10-PM.png 492w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Screen-Shot-2016-11-05-at-4.09.10-PM-300x292.png 300w, https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Screen-Shot-2016-11-05-at-4.09.10-PM-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"As%20Giuliani%20lies%20about%20FBI%20leaks%2C%20read%20the%20story%20of%20how%2C%20back%20in%201976%2C%20he%20killed%20an%20ATF%20case%20which%20accused%20an%20FBI%20agent%20of%20illegal%20gun%20sales.\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>By Peter Lance November 5th. The Huffington Post\u00a0reported last night that Trump advisor Rudy Giuliani changed his story yesterday about how he&#8217;d spoken to active duty FBI agents in the days prior to Director James Comey&#8217;s bombshell letter to Congress\u00a0which has narrowed the presidential race in favor of Donald Trump. That HuffPost by Chris D&#8217;Angelo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[1157,1163,1162,1161,1164,173,428,989,1155,1158,434,1216,784,1156,978,774,379,111,115,381,1219,1154,1153,1159,1160,651],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9612"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9612"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9624,"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9612\/revisions\/9624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlance.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}