McCloud has confronted extreme scruti­ny from the FBI, and over a cou­ple of occa­sions — in 1992 and once more in 2001 — arrest and tri­al by “not very sym­pa­thet­ic” juries, who nonethe­fewer acquit­ted him the two periods. Even though he features a larg­er col­lec­tion of blot­ter acid sheets compared to the DEA, he and his