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Reminiscing About My Life as a Terrorist and Presidential Assassin
August 7th fell on a Friday this year. I can recall that August 7th also fell on a Friday in the year 1998, 11 years ago. Back in the day I was a danger to society. Yes, I was a very dangerous man.
On the evening of Thursday August 6, 1998 two Special Agents of the US Capitol Police (Threat Investigation Unit) forcibly entered my home, after frisking me for weapons, and proceeded to interrogate me about an allegation made by a DC employee that, earlier in the day, at the height of an enraged argument, I had threatened to kill two federal officers at point-blank range, execution style in the Capitol rotunda. Later investigation by Agent Steven Horan disclosed that said allegation was mistakenly based on a letter I had written to my psychiatrist (Stephen Quint, MD) and copied to a DC agency that factually summarized Dennis M. Race's (202 887-4028) violence-risk determination; my supervisor's homicide-risk determination; as well as the DC Corporation Counsel's determination that my coworkers had formed a reasonable apprehension that I might commit an armed, mass homicide. Though I was exonerated of making unlawful threats, Officer Horan photo ID'd me to all federal officers assigned to the U.S. Capitol Building as a protective measure. Dennis M. Race was a partner at the law firm of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld in Washington, DC, where I used to work. My supervisor at Akin Gump had told her employees on the day I was fired, October 29, 1991, that she was afraid I might return to the firm's premises and kill her ("or something"). Or something!
On Friday August 7, 1998 I met with Agent Horan at the office of the U.S. Capitol Police on Capitol Hill. Earlier in the morning I met for the first time with my new psychiatrist, Albert H. Taub, MD. Agent Horan advised me that the federal government (unbeknownst to me) had previously placed my name on a national registry of potential terrorists because of a letter I had written in 1996 to a local psychiatric facility (The Meyer Clinic), inquiring into out-patient services. Said letter elaborated Mr. Race's violence-risk determination as well as my supervisor's homicide-risk determination. Dennis Race had determined, in consultation with a psychiatrist, that I was paranoid and potentially violent.
On the afternoon of August 7, 1998 two Special Agents of the U.S. Secret Service placed me under house arrest because of concerns I might pose a risk of harm to President Clinton. The two Secret Service agents were part of a team of six federal special agents who had been assigned to interrogate me and secure my person, over a two-day period (August 6-7, 1998). Federal law enforcement concerns were aroused by a letter I had written and sent to a DC agency that discussed the federal civil rights implications of the DC Corporation Counsel's handling of 96-CV-961. I had sent an identical letter to U.S. Senator Arlen Specter (R.-PA.) on Capitol Hill, who responded with a cordial and personalized reply. Senator Specter, a former prosecutor, saw absolutely nothing threatening about the letter I had written, much less did he see the need to assign six federal special agents to interrogate me and secure my person.
You'll be happy to know I am no longer considered a terrorist or a presidential assassin. I have reformed. Yes, even potentially violent people can change.
On the evening of Thursday August 6, 1998 two Special Agents of the US Capitol Police (Threat Investigation Unit) forcibly entered my home, after frisking me for weapons, and proceeded to interrogate me about an allegation made by a DC employee that, earlier in the day, at the height of an enraged argument, I had threatened to kill two federal officers at point-blank range, execution style in the Capitol rotunda. Later investigation by Agent Steven Horan disclosed that said allegation was mistakenly based on a letter I had written to my psychiatrist (Stephen Quint, MD) and copied to a DC agency that factually summarized Dennis M. Race's (202 887-4028) violence-risk determination; my supervisor's homicide-risk determination; as well as the DC Corporation Counsel's determination that my coworkers had formed a reasonable apprehension that I might commit an armed, mass homicide. Though I was exonerated of making unlawful threats, Officer Horan photo ID'd me to all federal officers assigned to the U.S. Capitol Building as a protective measure. Dennis M. Race was a partner at the law firm of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld in Washington, DC, where I used to work. My supervisor at Akin Gump had told her employees on the day I was fired, October 29, 1991, that she was afraid I might return to the firm's premises and kill her ("or something"). Or something!
On Friday August 7, 1998 I met with Agent Horan at the office of the U.S. Capitol Police on Capitol Hill. Earlier in the morning I met for the first time with my new psychiatrist, Albert H. Taub, MD. Agent Horan advised me that the federal government (unbeknownst to me) had previously placed my name on a national registry of potential terrorists because of a letter I had written in 1996 to a local psychiatric facility (The Meyer Clinic), inquiring into out-patient services. Said letter elaborated Mr. Race's violence-risk determination as well as my supervisor's homicide-risk determination. Dennis Race had determined, in consultation with a psychiatrist, that I was paranoid and potentially violent.
On the afternoon of August 7, 1998 two Special Agents of the U.S. Secret Service placed me under house arrest because of concerns I might pose a risk of harm to President Clinton. The two Secret Service agents were part of a team of six federal special agents who had been assigned to interrogate me and secure my person, over a two-day period (August 6-7, 1998). Federal law enforcement concerns were aroused by a letter I had written and sent to a DC agency that discussed the federal civil rights implications of the DC Corporation Counsel's handling of 96-CV-961. I had sent an identical letter to U.S. Senator Arlen Specter (R.-PA.) on Capitol Hill, who responded with a cordial and personalized reply. Senator Specter, a former prosecutor, saw absolutely nothing threatening about the letter I had written, much less did he see the need to assign six federal special agents to interrogate me and secure my person.
You'll be happy to know I am no longer considered a terrorist or a presidential assassin. I have reformed. Yes, even potentially violent people can change.
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