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2021-04-02 -Lurid Crime Tales-
The FBI is very good at woke politics, not so good at catching killers
[NYPost] If you watch TV crime shows, you would think the Federal Bureau of Investigation works tirelessly to protect us from terrorists and criminals. But the real FBI is a much less impressive organization.

After the horrendous Colorado shooting last week, we learned that the alleged shooter, Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, had a record of violence and arrests. His brother described him as mentally ill, paranoid and "very anti-social." He was also on the FBI’s radar because of someone with whom he associated.

In this, Alissa joins a long list of "known-wolf" killers, including Nidal Hasan, the Fort Hood shooter; the Tsarnaev brothers, who conducted the Boston Marathon bombing; Omar Mateen, the Pulse nightclub shooter in Florida; and some of the 9/11 hijackers.

The FBI’s failure to catch that last set of perpetrators is especially enraging — and shows the agency has been atrophying for a long time. "For two and a half weeks before the attacks," as Slate noted, "the US government knew the names of two hijackers. It knew they were al-Qaeda killers and that they were already in the United States."

The two, Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi, lived under their real names, loud and proud. Per Slate: "They used those names for financial transactions, flight school, to earn frequent flier miles and to procure a California identity card." Nevertheless, the FBI failed to nab the pair until, on Sept. 11, 2001, they slammed an airliner into the Pentagon.

The bureau’s performance disappointed FBI agents themselves. Agents trying to get a warrant to search the laptop of 9/11’s "20th hijacker," Zacarias Moussaoui, joked that Osama bin Laden must have had a "mole" in the FBI’s DC headquarters because they were meeting with so much interference.

And as the Boston Herald’s Howie Carr reminds us: "Remember serial killer Gary Sampson? Before he murdered three innocent men in 2001, he called the FBI office in Boston from a pay phone in Abington and offered to turn himself in on some unsolved bank robberies." But the FBI apparently keeps banker’s hours, and the call came on a Friday afternoon; the bureau ignored the call. "The following day, Sampson started his two-state carjacking murder spree."

So what’s the FBI good for? The answer is, the kinds of things that wouldn’t make for flattering TV.

Some of it is humorous, as when the bureau sent no fewer than 15 agents to investigate a "noose" in race driver Bubba Wallace’s garage that turned out to be an innocent pull cord.

Most of it isn’t so funny.

Agents in the FBI’s Boston office, for example, protected notorious mobster James "Whitey" Bulger from law enforcement, while simultaneously accepting gifts from him. They may even have helped him in his efforts. Carr also notes that the bureau’s Boston office was guilty of "railroading four Boston men onto death row for a 1965 murder they did not commit, allowing them to rot in prison for 35 years while corrupt FBI agents protected the real murderers from justice."
Fire everyone G-12 and above
Posted by DarthVader 2021-04-02 09:52|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ]  Top

#1 They are people, not angels. And the only way to prevent people from abusing power is to never give them power in the first place.
Posted by Angstrom 2021-04-02 11:04||   2021-04-02 11:04|| Front Page Top

#2 Note: Robert Mueller III was head of FBI in Boston during the Bulger debacle
Posted by Shusing Sforza5016 2021-04-02 11:26||   2021-04-02 11:26|| Front Page Top

#3 I don't want to have anything to do with any of them, but that's just me.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-04-02 13:46||   2021-04-02 13:46|| Front Page Top

#4 Capitol lockdown: 1 officer dead, 1 injured after car rams into barrier; suspect killed by police
Posted by Skidmark 2021-04-02 15:02||   2021-04-02 15:02|| Front Page Top

#5 Another Oath Keeper Nation of Pisslam guy trying to bring down the USGOV...
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-04-02 16:33||   2021-04-02 16:33|| Front Page Top

#6 Thank you, Skidmark, Vassilpatchenko, M. Murcek. An article on the attack has been posted for tomorrow.
Posted by trailing wife 2021-04-02 18:03||   2021-04-02 18:03|| Front Page Top

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