Feds expend millions to make up for botched CIA shooter inves.

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This Event Happened in Fairfax County, Virginia
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Reporters have raised the question of how much the government paid, and to whom, for Mir Amal Kansi, alleged perpetrator of the shootings at CIA headquarters on Jan 25 1993. Videotapes show the shooter calmly walking back to his car and driving away in rush hour traffic after the shootings. Yet it has taken over 3 years to "apprehend" him, and the FBI will not tell how many millions or billions or what assets,debts or contracts were negotiated in return for Kansi, saying details must be kept secret to facilitate future law enforcement operations. Whose money and whose interests are we talking about any way? Why the FBI has gone to such lengths with such secretiveness is curious in light of the fact that Kansi was allowed to walk away from the 1993 CIA shootings to begin with by a police department (Fairfax Co.) and the BATF, both of which rigorously ignored tips from the clerk who sold Kansi the AK-47 allegedly used in the shootings and from other law enforcement officials. According to a February 1993 Washington Post article entitled "Gunsmith Says He Gave ATF Tip About Kansi but Was Ignored" by Bill Miller, an ATF agent visited the Chantilly gun shop owned by David Condon on Jan 26 1993, the day after the CIA shootings, at which time a clerk named Fischer identified Kansi as a man who had bought the AK47 and picked it up from the shop on Jan 22. Kansi had passed background checks in order to purchase that gun and others. But according to the article, FCPD and the ATF waited more than a week after the tip before searching Kansi's apartment and finding the rifle. By then, Kansi had fled to Pakistan. In the article, Fischer states: "I was confident that this (Kansi) was the individual, but this guy (ATF agent) blew me off." The article continues: "Fischer said he gave the agent state and federal forms that Kansi filled out when he bought the AK-47 type rifle at the store. The forms gave Kansi's correct name and an address in the 400 block of Arkansas Avenue in Herndon. Fischer said. Kansi's last address was in Reston. "'It seems like this could have been resolved a lot sooner,' said Fischer, 'possibly before [Kansi] even left the country....Maybe they could have alleviated the mess.' "Britton Condon, manager of the store and owner David Condon's son, said he was present when the first agent came in and confirmed that Fischer told the agent he should check out Kansi." The article explains store owner David Condon called Falls Church Sheriff Stephen Bittle who also worked part time at the gun store and faxed him a copy of the federal gun sales form. Bittle immediately contacted Kevin McCormack, a Falls Church investigator, who contacted Mike Little, a Fairfax Co. investigator, and faxed Little the gun shop's information immediately. McCormack called Fairfax Co PD two days later to make sure the information got "To the right people" and was told FCPD was investigating. Sheriff Bittle states: "I'm not saying anybody bungled anything; I am saying this information was given to Fairfax County police the day after the shooting." The obvious question is: If the feds and Fairfax County didn't want Kansi when he was handed to them at no cost the day after the shooting by the clerk who sold him the gun, why are they willing four years later to secretively pay a foreign government big bucks for him? Regarding the FBI's claim that secretivenes is needed to facilitate future law enforcement operations--do the feds and Fairfax County really plan to "coordinate" another fiasco of this magnitude? From Beth George, mother of Tommy Burkett, whose 1991 murder is being clumsily covered up by FCPD and the FBI

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