Dear Agent Haug of the FBI:

Agent Haug:

I don't know at this writing if you're still with the FBI or at any field office in New Jersey nor even whether you still head up the Bureau's Joint Terrorism Task Force at that field office. If so, then you'll want to hear this.

I know for a fact that, with hideous irony, Hal Turner used to be an informant for the FBI and that you were his handler. I say "hideous irony" because, as I hope you know, Turner has acquired some small reputation as a fringe looney advocating "patriotic assassination" against government officials and inciting open rebellion against the very same federal government for whom you work.

The very notion of Turner pretending to flush out these dangerous lunatics with his hateful, racist rhetoric is beneath laughter. What I find much more disturbing is that the FBI actually and actively seeks out this bloated clown's guidance in flushing out potential terrorists/assassins.

Considering his hatred of anything that smells of liberality and common sense, do you honestly believe that Turner gives a shit if someone offs Senator Russ Feingold, next to Ted Kennedy the most liberal and progressive member of the US Senate?

Apparently, Turner was "working" with the FBI as recently as 2007 (I pulled your FBI email address off a site in my research on Turner's connection to you and the Bureau). I'm not getting any indication that such a relationship still exists or whether or not he's fallen into bad odor with the Bureau but since Hal and I had become, uh, acquainted yesterday when he trolled my blog I've decided to start paying some more attention to him.

Some time last year, Turner had started a blog on Blogger.com and is apparently up to his old tricks. At least every other day, he advocates assassinating not just one public official or another but all 246 congressmen and congresswomen who had voted for the recent Recovery or Stimulus bill.

Now, my pal Hal assures me that he's staying within the parameters of the law in his rhetoric and legal minds have given me the gloomy news that someone has to be wounded or killed and have it directly tied to Turner before anyone can even bring conspiracy charges against him.

Turner himself had even given me the number to the FBI field office in New Jersey and dared me to call and to see what happens. I've, obviously, decided to get a little more personal.

Now, I've heard and read accounts where people were arrested and even brought up on charges of threatening the President even when the "evidence" was specious and circumstantial at best. Obviously, the FBI and Secret Service should not, nor do not, have to wait before something tragic happens to the Chief Executive before taking action.

It's a no-brainer that if Turner had substituted "congressmen" for "Obama", it would be a crime yet I do not nor cannot believe that making overt threats against a democratically-elected official beneath the President is not actionable.

Turner is not trying to flush out crazies and to get them arrested. His track record as a white supremacist makes that absurd. And, we both have to ask ourselves, Agent Haug, as to what the fallout would be for you personally, and the FBI collectively, if this violent racist's initiatives were to translate into violence and/or tragedy, especially after if becomes public knowledge that the FBI actually used him as a resource.

Turner's blog URL, if you don't know, is http://halturnershow.blogspot.com/ (God only knows why he's naming it after a defunct radio show that he hasn't made in well over four years). It would be very well worth your time to see what he's still advocating these days and the odious element that he's attracting.

Your response ought to be interesting, to say the least. Note, also, that this email is getting CC'd directly to Turner's secret12 address @ optonline.net. Just so it's all on the up and up and he can't claim that I've blindsided him.

Sincerely,

Robert Crawford
http://welcomebacktopottersville.blogspot.com