BLUF:[NYP] "The current use — or should I say abuse — of Bureau SWAT teams has been outrageous."
Baldovin expressed thanks to Friend "for having the courage to say ’hell, no’ to the current bunch of FBI bureaucrats and tyrants,"
"They do not exemplify Fidelity, Bravery and Integrity, but you, sir, certainly do . . .
"The SWAT colleagues of yours who agree to participate in these police state tactics are doing the same thing as those in Germany who participated in war crimes. ’Only following orders,’ right?"
Another SWAT member, retired Special Agent Bob Fricke, who served from 1987 to 2008, says: "When I see the FBI using extreme SWAT tactics on elderly and other citizens who pose no physical threat, it makes me sick. It has to be purely political . . .