Fox News Legal Analyst Compares Roger Stone’s Arrest To Bin Laden Raid

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Fox News legal analyst Andrew Napolitano on Monday compared the arrest of Trump confidant Roger Stone on Friday to the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan in 2011.

“There were 29 FBI agents in 17 vehicles, two of which were armored,” Napolitano said on air Monday, referring to the Stone arrest. “They not only had side arms, they had what we call assault rifles, heavy-duty military-grade machine guns, and there were two boats behind Stone’s house, which abuts on a canal in Ft. Lauderdale. And there was a helicopter hovering overhead.” 

Napolitano compared that formation to the “12 SEALs” who “went after Osama bin Laden.”

“So you had more than twice as many to arrest this person for a non-violent crime with no history of violence,” he said.

In criticizing the arrest method, Napolitano joins Stone himself, who on Sunday said the FBI used “Gestapo tactics,” comparing the law enforcement agency to the Nazi secret police force. On Monday, Stone told reporters the FBI used “greater force than was used to take down bin Laden or El Chapo or Pablo Escobar.”

According to court documents, the indictment against Stone was sealed to minimize the risk that he’d destroy evidence. It appears Stone’s arrest took place during the pre-dawn hours, and involved such a large number of FBI personnel, for the same reason.

FBI agents were spotted taking away electronic devices including hard drives from Stone’s New York apartment, and his recording studio in South Florida was also raided, various reports have noted.

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  1. They not only had side arms, they had what we call assault rifles, heavy-duty military-grade machine guns

    Same as every gun humper in this country.

    What’s your beef?

    Did you ever think this was because the M F’er is guilty as fuck?

  2. Roger and his buddies need to quit their whining.

  3. I compare Fox News and It’s analyst to Soviet era Pravda
    All the news we see fit to tell you with our special Faux news filter

  4. Avatar for theod theod says:
    1. I might agree if there were a bullet in Stone’s brain and two in his chest, but there aren’t, so nonsense & stupidity still reign at FOX.

    2. Florida is a stand-your-ground state. Ergo, the Feds had to assume the worst from Stone. And, really, isn’t he the worst?

    3. No advance warnings were given so that Stone couldn’t destroy any recording/computer equipment holding evidence.

  5. And that’s what we did, sat in the back of the patrol car and drove to the
    quote Scene of the Crime unquote. I want tell you about the town of
    Stockbridge, Massachusets, where this happened here, they got three stop
    signs, two police officers, and one police car, but when we got to the
    Scene of the Crime there was five police officers and three police cars,
    being the biggest crime of the last fifty years, and everybody wanted to
    get in the newspaper story about it. And they was using up all kinds of
    cop equipment that they had hanging around the police officer’s station.
    They was taking plaster tire tracks, foot prints, dog smelling prints, and
    they took twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy photographs with circles
    and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each
    one was to be used as evidence against us. Took pictures of the approach,
    the getaway, the northwest corner the southwest corner and that’s not to
    mention the aerial photography.

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