[Cicero]

This is not a surprise. Although the article focuses on the failings of the FBI under Bush, I assume that most of the agents in question were clintonoid holdovers.

[dts32041]

Funny after Ruby Ridge, Waco, OKC and Richard Jewell, and the guy still running around SC, I thought they know how to handle terrorists.

Oh you mean there are others besides white native born americans that are terrorists.

[SpinyNorman]

And people wonder why the FBI is trying to pin down the Congressional leaks of classified info with lie detectors!!

The poor slobs have been almost totally emasculated by Clinton/Reno: no wonder they screwed up so much!

[300winmag]

He said the decision by F.B.I. supervisors in Washington to rebuff the Minneapolis agents, and the supervisors' ignorance of the standards of evidence required for a search warrant, were "inexplicable."

No, it's VERY explicable. It's called "klintonization". The FBI was reconfigured to watch "gun traffickers" and the "religious right", because klinton proclaimed those two groups to be the only real threat to the country.

The proof of klintonization is the agency's actions after these screwups were discovered. Lose the documents, persecute the whistleblowers, and promote the screwups. That was the klinton SOP, and it has spread through all levels and agencies of the government.

[Lion's Cub]

More @$$-covering by a thoroughly corrupt senate, I see...I'm supposed to believe that these "managers" deliberately squelch investigations without orders from above? I'm supposed to believe that these people are promoted into these positions without any knowledge of the law?

And so what if the FBI is a bumbling collection of diversity and affirmative action with no qualifications for their positions? Are they the ONLY game in town? Is there no NSA? No DIA? No CIA? Is there no Senate Intelligence Committee? No House Intelligence Committee?

So Mueller's a problem, huh? (I see they don't even remember Freeh...) Who confirmed him? So everything went to hell under Clinton's watch, huh? Well, who was supposed to performing the the oversight? Where was the branch of government that was supposed to act as a check and balance against a rogue president?

Let them file their report in the same place their ethics and brains are.....

[citizenK]

Mr. Specter said the department appeared to have misread the intent of Congress when it passed the antiterrorism bill. He suggested that the F.B.I. and the Justice Department already had ample investigative power under the surveillance law, and that they had failed to use it properly.

This article confirms that the Patriot Act was not necessary. The FBI has had the tools the whole time to do their job and complete their mission. The Patriot Act was a CYA move on the part of the Senators who should have been themselves more dilligent in their oversight responsibilities. Instead, the Senators are more concerned about coming up with better schemes to abscond with more tax dollars from the American people so they can fund more social programs and expand the powers of the state into every known facet of American life. The US Senate is a disgrace.