FBI Reorganization Gets Under Way

Fox News ^ | 5/28/02 | Carl Cameron

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WASHINGTON

[browardchad]

To meet civil-liberty concerns, the Justice Department has included unprecedented language in its new procedures to ensure that individual rights and the Constitution are protected.

Does this mean that profiling is still verboten?

[cynicom]

If Ashcroft wants to fool himself into believing, thats fine, but trying to fool the American people into thinking the FBI will be reformed, is an insult.

They will play musical chairs, with a dozen extra chairs, to make sure no one loses out, the result after the dust settles will be another layer of fat with the same fatcats in charge.

Ashcroft will proclaim victory, the entrenched burrowcrats will snicker behind his back and go back to business as usual.

[David]

Another bunch of Federal beauracrats rearranging the deck chairs. The real issue that ought to be addressed is why we need the FBI at all. A national agency focused on an effective response to attacks in North America and on controlling the borders and presence of illegal aliens might well be appropriate. But neither the FBI nor Ridge's homeland security department has the right people; the right mission; and the correct tools.

There is no doubt, at a minimum, based on the information that is available today, that the FBI did not do a competent job of responding to the facts of which it was aware in August of 2001. The culture of the organization is self directed focus on job protection and income and not on a mission.

[Cicero]

They don't mention taking all those thousands of operatives off the important job of spying on conservative Christians and pro-lifers, which Janet Reno and Louis Freeh made the FBI's top priority. They also don't mention shoveling out the clintonoid muck at headquarters. Or getting rid of Mueller, who is a weak-spined nebbish. Until they do, none of this will accomplish anything.

If they spent as much energy chasing terrorists as they have spent on framing pro-lifers and covering up clinton's felonies, they might accomplish something.

[Lexington Green]

Oh my God! Who will protect us from those dope-smoking cancer patients?

[RLK]

Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller on Wednesday will announce dramatic new changes to the Federal Bureau of Investigation that officials are hoping will help prevent future terror attacks in the United States.

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I have but one question. Does this include the terrorist attacks at Ruby Ridge and Waco? If not, we are in big trouble.

[boomop1]

The most needed first step is omitted, accountability, fire the incompetent a** holes who pigeon holed the warnings.

[browardchad]

According to the Washington Times 5/27 story Probe eyes FBI fears of profiling

Miss Rowley wrote that some of the revisions "downplayed" the significance of intelligence linking Moussaoui to Islamic extremists.

This angle is interesting, since the parts of the Rowley memo printed by Time Magazine on their website don’t mention the "Islamic" sensitivity specifically.

What these FBI “changes” appear to amount to is a further attempt to curtail the rights of all citizens rather than focusing on the Islamic community in America. The administration, and Congress, not only refuse to address the fundamentalist Islamic cancer in our midst, but they are actively engaged in a partnership with the very Muslim organizations which have been proven to preach anti-American, pro-terrorist propaganda, and to finance terrorist organizations, long before 9/11.The State Department is now working with CAIR -- whose terrorism supporting exploits have been widely exposed by Steven Emerson, among many others -- to improve our “image” in Islamic countries. See Uncle Sam’s Makeover

These American Muslim organizations (an oxymoron) lobby continually under the guise of “anti-discrimination.” They are well-funded and exert considerable influence both on Capitol Hill and Pennsylvania Avenue. The FBI has long been hampered, under Clinton and now under Bush, in investigating both their activities and the activities of Mosques throughout the US. Until the administration and Congress have the political will to break free of the Islamic lobby, the war on terror, and Homeland Defense, will continue as an exercise in futility.

[RJCogburn]

Well, to look on the bright side...

400 will come from the anti-drug crimes division

[Free the USA]

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[packrat01]

More critically, the new intelligence section will have sweeping investigative authority in the U.S. ? authority that has not existed recently, as the Central Intelligence Agency cannot spy in the United States and FBI undercover work has until now been limited to probing crimes that are assumed to have already occurred.

Thought police are on their way. Register your thoughts today, at the: Thought Registry

Coming soon to your front door at 04:00; Dynamic Entry!

[cynicom]

pack...

What does the word "Gestapo" translate into English?

[rageaholic]

Umm, what homeland defense color are we today? I've got to coordinate my clothes. This war on terror is a bitch! </richard simmons voice>

[rageaholic]

Also the FBI is actively recruiting Arabic, Pashtun and Farsi speaking agents. So you can bet a significant portion of those 900 new recruits are muslims who answer to their angry god "Allah", not the American people. And amoung those are most certainly Al Qaida moles. The FBI is far behind the curve, and only getting further.

[deport]

Changes on the way for whatever they maybe worth....

[FreedominJesusChrist]

"If they spent as much energy chasing terrorists as they have spent on framing pro-lifers and covering up clinton's felonies, they might accomplish something."

Well said!

[gatex]

"...Before the terror attacks, only 153 agents were assigned to the Counter-Terrorism Division...."

Didn't they have over 200 looking for Eric Rudolph ?