Hal Turner Was an FBI Informant

July 29th, 2009

I learned about Hal Turner through people submitting links to his site for me to look at. I checked out his site and—wow—it was one heap of steaming bullshit after another.

I wasn’t sure what the deal was, with any precision, but I was sure that something was very wrong there.

You never saw this happening in the background, but I was having to delete comments containing links to Hal Turner’s site and banning the users who were repeatedly submitting those comments.

And now it turns out that Hal Turner was a confidential informant for the FBI.

Via: The Star Ledger:

A New Jersey blogger accused of threatening to kill three federal judges has been an FBI informant and even told authorities about a potential plot to assassinate President Barack Obama, his lawyer said today.

Blogger Hal Turner pleaded not guilty earlier in the day to charges that he threatened to kill three Chicago-based federal appeals judges.

At his bond hearing, defense attorney Michael Orozco said the 47-year-old Turner of North Bergen was not a danger to the community as federal prosecutors claim. Turner deserved to be released on bond, Orozco said, adding that he had served as an FBI confidential informant.

“He provided information about the potential assassination of President Obama,” Orozco told U.S. Magistrate Judge Martin C. Ashman.

Orozco acknowledged that he had no independent confirmation concerning a potential assassination and had only the word of his client — a political extremist whose views the lawyer himself repeatedly described as “outlandish.”

The attorney also acknowledged that at some time in the past Turner had taken medicine for an emotional condition but said he no longer does because “he doesn’t need it.”

Assistant U.S. Attorney William Hogan told Ashman he “never heard anything about that” potential assassination. He said Turner’s contacts with the FBI ended “quite some time ago.”

After court, Hogan and a federal spokesman, Randall Samborn, declined to comment further about Turner’s relationship with the FBI or federal marshals.

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One Response to “Hal Turner Was an FBI Informant”

  1. ltcolonelnemo says:

    Check out Turner’s servile tone:

    http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/07/revealed-racist-talk-show-host-turner-was-an-fbi-informant/

    > Guys:
    > I wrote an opinion piece on my site today in which I opine about
    > 46 US Senators who I believe should be removed from office on
    > July 4 for betraying their constituents and this nation.
    >
    > An anonymous person, posting on the outside, third-party visitor
    > comments area of my web site wrote:
    >
    > “im going to kill senator feingold on july 4th. may thomas
    > paine smile upon me and alexander hamilton bless my cause.
    > praise the lord and pass the ammunition.”
    >
    > As you are probably aware, Feingold is from Wisconsin.
    >
    > The posting was made today, July 1, 2007 at 4:34 PM EST from IP
    > address 128.104.230.228 which comes back to the University of
    > Wisconsin.
    > The posting can be viewed by the general public at:
    > http://www.haloscan.com/comments/halturner/FacingOffWith46/#236927
    >
    > Once again, my fierce rhetoric has served to flush out a
    > possible crazy.
    >
    > Please acknowledge receipt of this warning. Of late, both of
    > you have become remiss in acknowledging e-mails.
    >
    > HT

    The message drew a rather terse response:

    > Got it thanks. I think you forget that I no longer have my
    > blackberry and thus no real-time link to the email. I have to be
    > logged on to a server to access it. As you know, I don;t have
    > one growing out of my ass…Some emails require no comment…

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