Informed Americans have issues with the FBI. Hoover, long-time Bureau head J. Edgar, used the Bureau to his own ends --and to know the things the Bureau has done engendered suspicion, contempt, even in the casual observer.
Hoover wire-tapped --many many people, then used the information against those people and attempted, allegedly, to blackmail; 'leaked' material on others --to weaken -discredit such as Martin Luther King, famous model The 'Shrimp' who killed herself after learning of their interest; successive Presidents --believed to be how he kept his job for decades.
All the while organized crime families --mobsters flourished, curiously untouched --especially those who owned nightclubs --which didn't, apparently, mind hosting, quietly, the man --who liked to dress in women's clothes? --Hoover in wide-strapped frilly dress, sitting on someone's lap, half-smile --how I remember the picture, in every newspaper --parody --true? Head and #2Bureau man his sidekick: Life-long bachelors, constant companion, destroyed all of Hoover's papers after his death; buried side by side, 1970s. Who does those?
It's not necessary to go all the way back to Hoover, past ten years: far enough. Agents requested warrant: for computers of two wealthy foreigners taking flying lessons, who didn't want to learn how to land --denied, several times. --Might have shut down 9/11 attack, prevented 3,000 murders.
One FBI agent: looked at disparate information --ultimately mapped --jumbled dots, revealed all the deaths -destruction -bombings over several years --connected. But while he was working to convince 'management' of the core connection: he committed a 'crime.' His briefcase --briefly left in a crowded room, rankled, 'crime' used by Bureau 'brass' who already didn't much care for brilliance -intelligence -creativity, as 'last straw' to make his FBI life difficult. Well-known, well-liked, after he quit the FBI he easily got another position. John P. O'Neill, head of World Trade Center Security, died on the job --September 11.
To see "FrontLine" PBS investigative report on O'Neill, FBI: is to enrage.
Stupefying --shocking begins to describe: the news FBI had an informant who had lived with two of the 9/11 murderers --news widely-reported at the time, immediately yanked out of the house (--in San Diego?) after the attack. HOW --of all the potential criminals, in all the cities in the US -around the world --in that house --those roommates?
Utterly forgotten: never followed up --investigated neither by Congress --any reporter --even local authorities --Why?
The young woman working for the Bureau, who had answered the call for bilingual help: one day returned from lunch to find week's worth of translations missing --deleted; told by her supervisor, essentially, she was spoiling the Bureau's "opportunity" to get more money from Congress --for translators --working too fast. The agent waiting for the English transcription of the Arabic papers she had been translating? Oh well. As detailed on "60 Minutes" she re-did all the work --then quit. The supervisor? Got promotion --bump in pay??? Do we need to look outside --for enemies?
So Federal Bureau of Investigation --known for rigidity -bungling -abuse -'Lone Ranger' tactics -not playing well with others --chasing down bank robbers while organized bad guys flourished --best & brightest booted has changed --learned anything since worst US attack?
According to news reports: a naturalized American citizen from Somalia, hidden in plain sight attending an American university, deceived and imagined he could 'accomplish something' defying the Koran and his version of Muslim religion --by blowing up un-armed innocents, women, children --as many as he could.
"Caught"?
FBI agents --Caught the suspect who attempted to set off several drums of explosives at Portland, Oregon Christmas tree-lighting event? No. Agents: did not "catch" the suspected moron. Agents: did the grinding, the detailed, the patient --staying 'on top' of a lead --followed up, with what was necessary, until they rendered seriously stupid suspect impotent --arrested. "Two years" of work --not "catch" --not enticement, not entrapment. This the land of Free Will, still --he free to Stop at any time, his family not at risk, they, reportedly, tipped the FBI to his 'radicalism' -aka delusional -desperate self-aggrandisement.
Americans don't --probably won't ever, know all the politics --all that has transpired inside the Bureau --daVine and way not. But Americans, many children, many parents and all those connected to them, in a public square watching Christmas tree lights --free to go about life's banalities, uninterrupted by one-way trip to nearest ER --pain -suffering -murder -grief, mourning. From the outside Looks like: the 'brass' and the Bureau --better, now --closer to daVine than merely playing 'cops & robbers.'
Good job.
Now do the same --on the biggest criminals America has ever known: banksters -bundler bums -rating, insurance weasels on Wall Street committing Grotesque Theft. --Theft of home, of pension to line their own pockets: if not halted, prosecuted --threatens survivability of America. How many Americans --living in the street, will it take: to expose their crime?
AG Eric Holder --Where Are You?
If the crime is Really big: when the bank robs the people? Untouched by the FBI --Only go after the robber minnows? IF you need 'inducement': the tax paid on property --pays for cops, community --FBI --your salary --but first there has to Be a property owner.
IF You let the banksters get away with the theft: 70% of Americans at risk -huge number already lost their home, another 11 Million on the verge --there aren't enough cops --anywhere, to stop the anarchy --if America becomes homeless. Get to it.
If the FBI doesn't --investigate --seize --arrest, STOP the thieves of Everyone's future: who will-- When? daVine Politics... sorely needed....
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