The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap Highlight

As one government source explained it, “The FBI went ape-shit” when they saw the Boyd piece. The sheer embarrassment of having a prank-calling Matchstick Men wannabe like Contogouris claiming in public to be a deputized FBI operative was a terrible black eye for the Bureau, which was eventually forced to answer questions about the incident in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. Asked about the Post story, and Contogouris specifically, FBI director Robert Mueller answered icily, “The FBI does not deputize members of the general public.”