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Originally posted by wolf
You saw it on a recent TV movie and so it must be so, tw?
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Clearly you jest - or did not read the post with care. The TV movie only exampled (it never claimed to prove) what has been reported repeatedly about the FBI.
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A recent TV movie demonstrates the problem.
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Not proves... demonstrates.
For many, FBI lab was the only game in town. But look carefully at many major trials right after FBI lab procedures were exposed. Including, if I recall, credentials of top administrators. Trial evidence was also being sent to one or two additional private labs because FBI credibility had become so questionable.
You did listen to 60 minutes explain intentional stalling in the translation departments. Accusations ignored until 60 Minutes took on the story which suddenly got Congressional oversight committee attention.
Did you listen to another 60 Minutes report where an FBI agent had permission to report on serious management problems in the FBI - and then was harrassed for doing what he had permission to do. He now has protection from one senator on the oversight committee. These separate incidents along are strong symptoms of a organization with serious problems at the highest levels.
Need we return to the MN and AZ agents who not only could not investigate what was apparrently the WTC attack plot, but went on to testify how most every office in America has better office equipment that the FBI. How they were impeded constantly by FBI procedures and requests for information. They had to use there own home computers to communicate with Washington because DOJ at the highest levels chose to avoid things like computer for security reasons. Does the word 'incompetent' or 'fear of technology' or 'naive' sound familiar? Have you ever worked with people so anti-American (anti-innovative) and yet would get promoted because they had 'good people skills"?
You do remember some years back when DOJ wanted use of encryption and integrated communication methods limited so that wire tapping would not be so complex. The details of that are rather interesting. If phone wires required more than connecting to two wires and listening, then the FBI often did not have the people and technical abilities to make that tap. Heaven forbid if they had to tap a T1 line or xDSL. That was too complex - a symptom of management living in the dark ages? Clearly management that fears change - anti-innovators. No wonder they could not provide field offices with computers.
That is classic symptoms of a system top heavy in management AND with too many people who don't come from where the work gets done.
These stories are well published. Other lesser stories tell of similar problems. At the highest levels, top DOJ personal even covered up and then impeded the investigation of Ruby Ridge. We know that now. So who went to prision? Who was demoted or fired? That empty list is but another example of an organization of incompetents in top management. Top management too busy protecting itself as to now even harass honest whistleblowers - one even given permission to blow the whistle on 60 Minutes.
What has changed between Reno and Ashcroft. Ashcroft's staff also endorses 'shooting the messenger'.
I don't have all day to search hyperlinks for these stories. I expect, and now realize that too many waste their time on talk radio rather than listening to read news. These stories were widely reported and should be common knowledge. Best I can do for you is provide the stories and leave you to find the details.
A classic example from friends who are agents. Who to send undercover to an IRA fund raiser? According to top management rules, a black man was next on the list and therefore had to be sent to an IRA fund raiser. Classic example of management out of control. That is a story from the FBI as told by Federal agents. What good is sending a black FBI agent undercover to an IRA fund raiser?