Federal Bumbling Idiots
The F.B.I. Ain’t SMART
March 14, 2003
With April 15 rapidly approaching, the FBI has once again given you reason to question the worth of your tax contributions. A reasonable person might think that the 1992 Ruby Ridge debacle would have prompted this once viable agency to step back and reevaluate its recent history of arrogant bumbling. But, in what is rapidly becoming a federal refrain, “If it IS broken, why fix it?”
With all the surreal delusion, FBI Special Agent Chip Burress celebrated the safe return of Elizabeth Smart with unwarranted kudos for the FBI and the Salt Lake City police, “There are law enforcement officials up there (in the police station) with wide grins on their faces. I cannot tell you how many cases we've had where the end outcome was not this,” FBI Agent Chip Burress said Wednesday. Little wonder the FBI experiences so many cases, similar to the Smart kidnapping, with unhappy endings. If the FBI can take credit for anything in the Smart case, it is neglect and incompetence.
Elizabeth Smart is safe and secure at home not because of the FBI or the Salt Lake City police; her return has everything to do with the government-unfunded private sector. First and foremost there is the dedication and intelligent persistence of the Smart family and friends. They would not accept the “let’s close this file” mentality of the taxpayer funded law enforcement agencies who looked to the innocent Richard Albert Ricci as a convenient fall guy.
Even if their motives were a blend of ratings and social responsibility, the media is a co-hero in this joyful resolution. Without doubt, the for-profit television show, America’s Most Wanted” struck the match that lit a thousand candles of success. “That looks like that ‘Emmanuel’ on ‘America's Most Wanted’,” said Rudy Montoya, one of the four private citizens alert enough to have spotted and reported the kidnappers and victim to the local authorities.
Imagine that, a non-taxpayer funded television show teaming-up with concerned parents prompts several taxpaying civilians to crack a case that had befuddled the multi-billion dollar funded FBI. If a Fox network television show that creates jobs, pays taxes and entertains millions of viewers can also be instrumental in solving a criminal case, why are we paying taxes to fund a bunch of bumbling Monday Morning quarterbacks?
There is small compensation that the Sandy, Utah police, when handed the solution by the private sector, actually did the job that the taxpayers expect. “At about 1 p.m., police in Sandy, about 15 miles south of Salt Lake City, received calls from two women, Nancy Montoya and Anita Dickerson, who said they saw three people carrying bedrolls and bags walking down the street and that one of the people resembled Emmanuel.” Responding officers “located a male and two females at the side of the road.” After questioning the three, Sandy officers determined one of them was “possibly” Elizabeth Smart. Good job Sandy police. With a bazillion pictures of Smart circulating for 9 months we are indeed fortunate that somebody left a donut shop long enough to observe a “possibility”.
When FBI Special Agent Chip Burress affectedly proclaimed “What a great day it is for the City of Salt Lake,” he was right. It was a great day for the citizens of Salt Lake and the rest of the nation. But, it was another dark day for all taxpayers. Once again, the FBI botches up and tries to cover-up.
Less than a year before the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing, the FBI along with other government agencies called in military aerial reconnaissance, had photos studied by the Defense Mapping Agency, constructed psychological profiles and installed $130,000 worth of solar-powered long-range spy cameras in order to kill Randy Weaver’s wife, son and dog at Ruby Ridge. At least this created the diversion provided Ramzi Yousef the quiet-time he needed to plan and successfully execute his WTC bombing plot without the pesky interference of the FBI. They were too busy spending millions to keep America safe from the Weavers.
And it’s a damn good thing that the FBI was not the “First Responder” on the streets of Sandy for the arrests in the Smart case…they might have mistaken the veiled threesome as Muslims and refused to question them. A Muslim FBI agent involved in an investigation of Osama bin Laden’s network refused to wear a wire to record another Muslim because “a Muslim does not record another Muslim.” “The FBI is in a crisis. It has at least one agent, because of alleged Muslim sympathies, who obstructed terrorist investigations. And it has a leadership which is covering up the whole matter up and stifling those career agents in the FBI who would expose their lies.”
Let’s get this straight. We have a FBI that spends millions to kill dogs, protect Boston mobsters, play politically correct with Muslim terrorists, lie to facilitate internal cover-ups and then buffoonishly try to segue itself into the credit for solving a crime it was previously clueless about. When you’re waiting in the post office line at 11:59 pm on April 15th maybe you might ask yourself why am I paying taxes to fund an FBI that no longer serves the Constitution or the taxpayers of this nation.
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