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All these goof-ups by the FBI don't paint a pretty picture about the agency at all and I'm surprised some news agency isn't up in arms about their funding and i
by davidk0101 16y ago
All these goof-ups by the FBI don't paint a pretty picture about the agency at all and I'm surprised some news agency isn't up in arms about their funding and incompetence like they are with the teachers' unions.
- HelloBeautiful 16y agoWhen was the last time you saw a mainstream US news agency in arms about a government agency?
- ja2ke 16y agoAny time the news agency is Fox and the government agency is a public or social service, so, reasonably often.
- raganwald 16y agoAll these goof-ups by the FBI don't paint a pretty picture about the agency Do you mean the agency founded by J. Edgar Hoover? https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/J._Edgar_Hoover https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/J._Edgar_Hoov... Its founding principle was that there are baddies out there who need a special force of investigators who have powers far exceeding the regular police and who collect dossiers on suspicious citizens rather than simply waiting for crimes to occur and then investigating. In a certain sense, they aren't being incompetent, they're doing exactly what they were designed to do. The problem isn't the execution, it's the mandate. Here's another tidbit: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/COINTELPRO https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/COINTELPRO
- davidk0101 16y agoI have no problem with the mandate. It's the clear lack of competence in intelligence gathering that bothers me. Who honestly considers anything said on reddit to be of any significant value to state security matters? They might as well throw a dart on some board and make decisions that way if they are so desperate as to use postings from reddit.
- mynameishere 16y agoSeriously. Ever write a check for 10,000 dollars or more? Then the FBI has a file on you. It's just the way it is.