FBI HQ Robbing The American People

Remnants Of The Bush Years

One Massive Cash Grab

January 27. 2009

With each new revelation, it becomes clearer that the Bush years were just one massive government grab at taxpayer money, squandered, stolen and misappropriated.

George W. Bush did the bidding of those around him in starting a war to steal oil, financially benefiting huge corporations like Halliburton. He also okayed misconduct by his buddy at the FBI, Robert Mueller, who he met with on a weekly basis.

First, the FBI computer system fiasco negligently costing taxpayers $1 billion and still no viable, up-to-date system is in place, as it is already behind technology and not even fully delivered yet. What kind of foolishness is that.

This month it was revealed FBI headquarters encouraged FBI employees abroad to “inflate their time-billing records” to deceitfully and unlawfully gain thousands more in pay than they were entitled to receive. That is dishonest and called bilking the taxpayers.

While employees should be properly compensated, to take funds in this manner is thievery.

For all Robert Mueller's talk of pursuing justice, it is obvious he is nothing more than a common thief ripping off others' assets and misappropriating taxpayer money. No wonder corruption is rampant at the FBI.

Arrogance at the FBI

WHEN public servants forget whom they're obligated to serve, they do what FBI leaders did for nearly five years to keep some overseas employees happy. According to a report by the Justice Department inspector general, FBI managers actually encouraged employees, temporarily assigned to Iraq, to inflate their time-billing records, wasting millions of taxpayer dollars.

The practice, which violated federal law and regulations, only changed this year when the inspector's investigation was under way. That's what it took to finally stop more tax money from being spent on bogus claims of agency overtime and extra pay.

Inspector General Glenn Fine reported that FBI counterterrorism division managers inexplicably condoned an overtime policy that allowed employees sent to Iraq to collect nearly triple the typical worker's salary. Between 2003 and 2007, they earned about $71,000 during the usual 90-day tours.

The employees were apparently given the green light by headquarters to bill an average of $45,000 in overtime and extra pay during their tours by routinely claiming to work 16 hours a day, seven days a week - even when otherwise occupied exercising, eating, watching movies, or attending parties. One employee had the audacity to defend the billing practice, saying "When you're in that environment, anything you do to survive is work for the FBI."…

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