Some comments:
1. Hard to fault American Eagle. Nobody could tell what was on Mr Wynn’s mind.
2. Since we haven’t heard anything about the oddball, odds (no pun intended) are he was just an oddball.
3. Mr Wynn was right to be frightened. Maybe I have high standards, but from what I have seen, FBI agents are not safe and proficient firearms handlers.
4. FBI’s penchant for secrecy and insistence on not recording interviews or interrogations means that most of these sorts of “investigation” can be twisted. Instead FBI uses its Form 302 to, after the fact, record agents’ impressions of the interview. Naturally the 302 often winds up being more incriminating than anything the suspect actually said. A lot of wacko conspiracy theories get started, or grow legs, because the FBI systematically mishandles evidence in this way.
5. Lack of response from an FBI flack is the norm. The flack can’t tell because the flack doesn’t know anything, so he pretends it’s a big secret. It is, even from him.
