Please read this story.
Please understand that the FBI hires people for all kinds of weird reasons, then says they didn’t employ those people.
Please understand that there have been two synagogue shootings and an anti-Mexican Walmart shooting in America, and that the FBI has an infinite budget to hire random people from the internet to work for them.
Then please remember this forever, every time you see wignat posts in right-wing spaces.
Daily Mail: The family of an FBI operative who was killed in Ukraine after ‘going rogue’ and traveling there to fight for a Russian-backed militia have shared his story to criticize the bureau for not doing anything to find him since he disappeared.
Billy Reilly vanished in June 2015 after traveling to Moscow and then Rostov-on-Don where he went to a camp used by Donetsk People’s Republic, a Russia-backed proto-state that is at war with Ukraine and has been for years.
He had hinted to relatives that he was going ‘double agent’ after working for the FBI on a freelance basis for years.
The FBI denies ever sending Reilly despite ordering him to look into the group after a Malaysia Airlines commercial plane was shot down near the city of Donetsk in July 2014.
They say he acted on his own and that it is not responsible for his death.
The man’s family is however blaming the bureau for his death. They say Reilly spent years not only conversing online with people involved in the Ukraine conflict, but also with Islamist groups, and that it fed his curiosity in the area.
He was paid a freelancer rate by the FBI and was never full staff.
After he vanished, his parents say agents came to their home to retrieve his phone and laptop. Since then, however, the bureau has been silent in the face of their questions.
In an interview with The Wall Street Journal that was published on Wednesday, they said the bureau is to blame and that it tried to persuade them not to make his story known.
They do not explicitly state whether or not they think he was sent to Russia on official FBI business.
However they say that since their son vanished in June 2015, they were left to fend for themselves – despite the bureau’s considerable resources – and find out what happened to him.
In 2018, after three years of relentless questions and involving the Wall Street Journal, they learned through Russian officials that their son was killed in Ukraine.
In April this year, the man’s family traveled to Russia, and then took a bus into Ukraine, to retrieve his body. He had been dead since July 2015 and died days after last speaking to them.
Reilly had become interested in Islam and told friends he was converting to the religion as a younger man.
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He began working for the FBI in 2010 after an agent showed up at their home. Reilly, who loved computers, had been conversing with members of al-Qaeda.
During a raid on an al-Qaeda address, the agents found a hard drive which contained their communications.
The FBI offered him a job and paid him occasionally to get into chat rooms and learn about rising radical groups.
His parents were proud that he had been able to put his skills to use and work for the country.
In 2014, he was asked to look into the Donetsk People’s Republic after the Malaysian Airlines plane was shot down.
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Reilly began conversing with senior recruiters for DPR online.
He also started speaking to women based in Asia, including a woman in the Philippines. His family say they reviewed his communications with his FBI supervisor – a man called Tim Reintjes – and that Reintjes told him to end the relationship.
They’re just paying him to monitor chat rooms, you see.
But also of course they’re telling him who he can and cannot have as an e-girlfriend.