Al Sharpton On FBI Work: I'm Not A Rat, 'I'm A Cat'

[kpete]

“Rats are usually people that were with other rats," Sharpton said, as quoted by the Observer. "I was not and am not a rat, because I wasn’t with the rats. I’m a cat. I chase rats.”

He argued The Smoking Gun's story was old news already disclosed in his 1996 book. As Sharpton's story goes, he went to police once he started receiving death threats for his activism, and then began taping interactions with mafia bosses.

Sharpton also said he wasn't surprised that the report dropped right before his National Action Network's annual summit, which both New York Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) and President Barack Obama were expected to attend.

“We’re used to the attacks,” he said, as quoted by the Observer. “The only thing I was embarrassed by was those old, fat pictures. Could y’all use tomorrow’s cover, the new slim (ones)?”

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/al-sharpton-fbi-work-im-a-cat-not-a-rat

[rocktivity]

1. Considering that he also hung out with Republican operatives

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I consider Sharpton's hanging around with Mafia bosses to be a big step up:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=1081998&mesg_id=1082041

But he does have a point: Though it may be hazardous to your health to try to take down mobsters, since when it is immoral?


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[msanthrope]

2. It's a step up from taking money from Roger Stone to run against Kerry and smear Dean--

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1802948

[rocktivity]

3. Yes, you remember it well

And I still say that it was probably Roger Stone who got the story leaked in the first place!


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[msanthrope]

4. Of course it was!!! Roger likes fucking people. nt

[cloudbase]

5. That's a cat who doesn't have nine lives. n/t