Twenty-nine agents went to arrest 66-year-old Roger Stone, a longtime Trump-supporter.  The agents went in full battle dress in the early morning hours, as if mounting an attack on an enemy position during a full-blown war. Stone stands accused of lying to the FBI.  He poses no threat of resistance.  At his age and given his peaceful, good-citizen background, there was no reason to expect trouble arresting him.  Yet 29 agents showed up, armed to the teeth, as if Stone were Pablo Escobar, ready to fight to the death. We had hoped FBI insanity would lessen with Trump in the White House.  This re-enactment of Elián González, of overkill on steroids replete with tip-offs to CNN so the network was there with cameras, shows that nothing has changed at the FBI of Christopher Wray from the days of James Comey.  The place was an out-of-control rogue then; it's an out-of-control rogue now. More broadly, we...(Read Full Post)