In addition, leadership of the Fish and Wild Life Service and the Forest Service are not informing the FBI of violent acts taking place in their jurisdictions. Still, the violence on the scale of the Vale arson is too big for the FBI to ignore. So the investigation has begun, but agents are ten years behind. They have no research on the ideology of green groups or on their network of activists and publications. They are literally starting from scratch -hampered by Janet Reno's Justice Department.
Sources reveal a possible attempt by government agents to cover up such activities.
And those agents may have contacts very high in the Clinton Administration. In a casual, off the record, discussion with a Forest Service agent, a source for this article asked the nature of the agent's job. He said it was his job to keep Earth First's violent activities out of the news. This was a federal agent who apparently is assigned the duty of keeping known terrorist activities from coming to light. It gets worse.