New York Post: The FBI Is Incompetent

December 4. 2009

FBI Director Robert S. Mueller

The New York Post ripped the FBI to shreds, for their national security failings, in a scathing editorial published today. The Post cited the current state of disarray the FBI exists under and how it has proven lethal to the American people. 

The Judiciary Report has stated repeatedly the FBI needs to be closed with Congress starting a new agency. The New York Post delivered their opinion as well, stating the FBI should not be in charge of terrorism matters, citing numerous incidents of preventable failures that left innocent people dead. The Post wants a new anti-terrorism agency as well, replacing the FBI.

With FBI HQ, it's about pride and ego. They'd rather innocent people die in terrorist and criminal acts than admit they are in over their heads.

These terrorists are driven, maddened and bloodthirsty. The FBI in its current state is no match for that extremism, as they have shown, via numerous failures that cost civilians their lives. They are also failing on the national front via numerous child abduction cases, ponzi schemes allowed to run to extremes and white collar crimes currently gripping the nation.

The FBI bungles on terror again

Last Updated: 11:53 AM, December 4, 2009 - THE FBI's failure to see clear warning signs in the Fort Hood case revives the question of whether it's up to the task of countering terrorism.

Before his murderous rampage, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan was exchanging e-mails with a radical Yemen-based imam with ties to the 9/11 hijackers. FBI investigators examined intercepts -- and, finding that their "content was explainable by his research," concluded "that Hasan was not involved in terrorist activities or terrorist planning." It did not warn the Army of the potential menace.

The lapse has been attributed to an FBI bending over backward to avoid giving offense to Muslims. Perhaps it did -- but, thanks to reporting by National Public Radio, we've learned that sheer incompetence played a larger role.

After Hasan's e-mails came under scrutiny, NPR reports, his investigative file languished for months on an agent's desk, growing out of date. When the FBI opted to close the case, the file didn't include fresh e-mails, held in another office, in which Hasan pondered whether Sgt. Hasan Akbar, a Muslim solder who threw grenades at fellow troops at the start of the Iraq war, was a holy martyr.

FBI lassitude in national-security cases has a long history. The bureau took years to investigate the possible Chinese theft of nuclear-weapons design plans by Los Alamos scientist Wen Ho Lee, ending the case inconclusively in 2000 with a conviction on only a minor count. A scathing Justice Department review noted that the FBI probe was marked "by dead-stop-in-the-water delays that can only be characterized as maddening and inexplicable."

Just months after that fiasco came the revelation that Robert Hanssen, the FBI official in charge of ferreting out Soviet (and then Russian) spies, had been spying for Moscow since 1985. Despite bizarre personal behavior (one supervisor called him the "strangest person" he'd ever worked with), Hanssen was promoted into the critical slot, leading to the deaths of several (at least) US agents in the USSR.

Then, in August 2001, FBI investigators detained Zacharias Moussaoui -- an al Qaeda operative then trying to learn how to fly a Boeing 747. When they sought a warrant to examine his laptop, FBI supervisors in Washington balked -- despite Moussaoui's known jihadist beliefs, ties to Chechen rebels and the field agents' belief that he was preparing to hijack a plane. It took the toppling of the World Trade Center for FBI bosses to change their minds...

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