“When it became clear that a forced entry was necessary, an FBI agent testified, “the decision was made, since it was an affluent neighborhood,” to do it inconspicuously.”
The agent said it under oath, in an insurance fraud case in Kalorama Heights. They used the back door to protect the neighborhood’s aesthetics. A judge who spent 10 years as a public defender said nobody ever worried about his clients’ front doors. The Justice Department lawyer had never heard of the policy. Of course not.