Chickens Coming Home...

So get this, for 5-years starting in 2002 Dubya's FBI allegedly started paying a radio talk show host to spew white supremacist hatred across the airways.

Sounds crazy huh?

There's more from Wired...

Hal Turner, the blogger and radio personality, remains jailed pending charges over his recent online rants, which prosecutors claim amounted to an invitation for someone to kill Connecticut lawmakers and Chicago federal appeals court judges.

But behind the scenes the reformed white supremacist was holding clandestine meetings with FBI agents who taught him how to spew hate “without crossing the line,” according to his lawyer, Michael Orozco.

“Almost everything was at the behest of the Federal Bureau of Investigation,” Orozco said. “Their job was to pick up information on the responses of what he was saying and see where that led them. It was an interesting dynamic on what he was being asked to do.”

“He’s a devoted American,” added the lawyer, who claims Turner was paid “tens of thousands of dollars” for his service. Bill Carter, an FBI spokesman, said in a telephone interview the bureau’s policy is “to neither confirm nor deny whether an individual has an association with the FBI.”

Of course, this is purely an unsupported allegation right now and Turner has every incentive to lie his glutes off BUT if I had to place a bet, my money is on Turner.

I also doubt that Turner was the bait. Remember this is 2002, the era of the Rovian divide-and-conquer strategy. Even if Turner was being used as bait, is it appropriate for the government to pay someone to yell "fire!" in a movie theater just to see if anyone else lights a match?

Unfortunately, given everything else that's come out about Dubya's eight years it's not a huge stretch to believe that this happened, whatever the reason.