McCloud has faced extreme scruti­ny from the FBI, and on the cou­ple of occa­sions — in 1992 and once again in 2001 — arrest and tri­al by “not pretty sym­pa­thet­ic” juries, who nonethe­considerably less acquit­ted him both equally situations. Although he features a larg­er col­lec­tion of blot­ter acid sheets than the DEA, he