FBI: Federal Bureau of Idiots

[Truth2Tell]

A take from http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/04/anthrax.internationalcrime?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews">The Guardian UK on the anthrax case...

Given its previous bungling, can anyone believe the FBI's claim to have solved the 2001 anthrax mystery?

Ian Williams
Monday August 04 2008 21:00 BST

When confronted with anthrax-laced letters that misspell the world's best known antibiotic as "penacilin" (rather than penicilin), who immediately suspects highly-trained scientists? Enter the Keystone Cops in their latest manifestation, the FBI: busy trying to wrap up the deadly 2001 anthrax case by fingering someone it had already driven to suicide.

One would have thought that the certainty of the FBI's investigators in this new posthumous revelation might have been dented by wake of a $5.8m damages award to the previous quarry of the Bureau for the anthrax cases, Steven Hatfill. But it seems unblushing in its attachment to its own omniscience.

Sometimes incompetence is so spectacular it looks like a conspiracy. Since its manifest Clouseau-like failures with the big one – the attack on the World Trade Centre, it seems to have indulged in a frenzy of persecutions to cover its stupidity with more examples of malicious incompetence.

The Bureau is a fitting faith-based institution for the times. It has a definite and distinctive modus operandi: to decide upon unlikely suspects and then to pursue them with an unshakeable conviction of guilt regardless of the failure to win conviction. In a sadistic form of barratry, the Bureau treats each failure to secure a conviction as an opportunity to raise new and ancillary charges and all the time leaks to reporters in a way that would in most common law jurisdictions have the judge throwing the case out.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/04/anthrax.internationalcrime?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews">More Here.

[BuyingThyme]

1. The person who ordered those attacks wears a uniform.

[NightWatcher]

3. and an il-fitting codpiece

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

2. "who immediately suspects highly-trained scientists?"

They'd rather suspect an illiterate who just so happens to write in block uppercase letters and has access to U.S. Army anthrax?

[Aviation Pro]

4. Barratry, what a wonderful word....

bar·ra·try Audio Help /ˈbærətri/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun Law. 1. fraud by a master or crew at the expense of the owners of the ship or its cargo.
2. the offense of frequently exciting and stirring up lawsuits and quarrels.
3. the purchase or sale of ecclesiastical preferments or of offices of state.

[bdf]

6. Peculation is a better word because it fits the facts better (n/t)

[AnnieBW]

5. F*ckups, Boobs, and...

Oh, hi, Agent Mike! I didn't see you there!

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