Comments on: Is The FBI A "Shadow Of Its Former Self"?

As FBI Focus Shifts From Crime To Terrorism, Fewer Cases Are Referred To Justice Dept.

[excoachken]

The F.B.I. seems to spend much less time "uncovering" crime than they do in "covering up" for the Bush crime syndicate.

[trulycurious]

The FBI botched the anthrax case, and many people think that they did so deliberately because it led back to the U.S. biowarfare complex, which involves a number of U.S. government agencies and a handful of private contractors, the largest being Battelle Memorial Institute, who operates the Dugway Proving Ground in Utah, Pine Ridge in Arkansas, Oak Ridge in Tennessee, and a microbiological facility in West Jefferson Ohio, among others.

The FBI was initially pursuing suspects in pharmaceutical firms who stood to benefit from new bioterrorism funding (which has indeed happened). However, that FBI team was removed and control was handed over to a new team, who settled on a "lone wolf" theory.

The FBI''s botched job on the anthrax case, followed by their focus on a suspect named Stephen Hatfill, has a lot in common with their prosecution of Wen Ho Lee over nuclear secrets.

Hatfill is now suing the FBI, and Robert Steven''s (the Florida victim) widow is suing Battelle Memorial Institute for his death. The Connecticut Postal Workers Union is also trying to find out more about the anthrax case - which the FBI is about to shut down entirely, if they haven''t already.

I mean, if you can''t even find anything out about who carried out a biowarfare attack on Congress using a high-tech powdered Ames anthrax spore preparation (traced back to U.S. army labs), you don''t have much credibility as a "anti-terror agency".

[fiteit1]

Hay CBS, why can''t we comment on "Commander Warns Of Homeland Terror Threat"? Maybe because everyone knows it''s a fear mongering tactic leading up to another event Bushit and company will stage just before the election to say I told you so and declare marshal law and postpone the elections.

[anonbene]

The FBI guy claims credit for stopping all these attempted terrorist attacks? I don''t get it? Has anyone been convicted of terrorism based on anything the FBI has done? I know the shoe bomber idiot was caught in the act but it wasn''t by any FBI guy. When will this administration including the FBI quit trying to take credit for what others do? The FBI took credit for that capture of the Atlanta bomber that was caught by a local deputy picking food out of dumpster. Why do you people think we are stupid? We''re not. The great and powerful FBI didn''t stop 9/11 neither did any other law enforcement or military arm of the government but they take all kinds of credit for it not happening again and I say the reason it didn''t happen again is the terrorists didn''t even try. With what 20 million illegal immigrants here you would think if any terrorists wanted to blow something up it would be pretty easy just by coming in from Mexico so none of their posturing has any credibility as far as I can see. I can see this posting being Routed through CBS to Verizon to AT&T to NSA to FBI to The White House and I''ll probably be in Guantanamo Bay by dinner time. When you idiots break my door down please don''t step on the cat or break my walker OK?

[neoconslayer]

matter77 has never heard of Martin Luther King, Jr. (the villainous super-terrorist) and he never heard of those pink hat grannies, the one''s who tried to enlist in their 70''s so their grandsons wouldn''t have to.
Thank Almighty GOD that the FBI investigated them.
I mean, the audacity of those people to volunteer. Isn''t that how the Manson Family made the news...?
Meanwhile, "al-Qaeda may attack with hijacked airplanes" is completely ignored by, well, everybody that matter77 trusts.

[neoconslayer]

pzabbie deserves neither security nor freedom.

[jumkey]

Yes, I''ve seen "The Untouchables" mediapreachr.

They can''t "get back to that" because it''s a movie.

[jumkey]

No, I''m referring to the FBI investigating and spying on legitimate political activities over the last 50 years - including the civil rights movement and it''s leaders and any number of other perfectly legal activities by American citizens.

And of course when this is pointed out and criticized, the authoritarian government lovers like yourself accuse the accusers of being aligned with terrorists. You were clearly born at the wrong time and the wrong place given your Stalinist bent.

Good example of McVeigh though. Another terrorist plot (like 9/11) that the FBI completely and totally botched and as a result dozens of Americans died. I''m left to wonder if it could have been prevented if the FBI had actually been working on stopping terrorism rather than investigating innocent Americans for political purposes. Not that they (or you for that matter) care one whit about this country or it''s citizens or the principles it was founded on, so the point is moot of course.

[mediapreachr]

Have any of you seen "The Untouchables"?
The main role of this federal agency was traditional law enforcement and sooner or later it will go back to doing that.

[matter77]

"investigating and persecuting Americans who exercise their civil rights" --- are you refering to Timothy McVeigh, man? Sounds like the sort of trash you''re spewing. Or maybe your bro got busted selling something and now you feel trampled.