M.N.: THE TIME BOMB OF TERRORISM KEEPS TICKING, THE BUREAU KEEPS FIGHTING THE TURF WARS AND PROTECTING ITS VESTED SELF-INTERESTS: MONEY AND POWER. IT LOOKS LIKE IT IS THE MAIN ISSUE THEY CARE ABOUT. NOTHING CHANGED IN ABOUT TEN YEARS SINCE THESE ARTICLES WERE WRITTEN AND THE CONTINUING TERRORIST ATTACKS, LARGE AND SMALL, INCLUDING THE SAN BERNARDINO, IS THE BEST PROOF OF IT. | Time to Rethink the FBI - By RICHARD A. POSNER
M.N.: The time bomb of terrorism keeps ticking , the Bureau keeps fighting the turf wars and protecting its vested self-interests: money and power . It looks like it is the main issue they care about. Nothing changed in about ten years since these articles were written and the continuing terrorist attacks, large and small, including the San Bernardino , are the best proof of it. ________________________________________ COMMENTARY Time to Rethink the FBI By RICHARD A. POSNER Updated March 19, 2007 12:01 a.m. ET The FBI came under heavy criticism last week when it was reported that the agency had failed properly to supervise the issuance of national security letters, a form of administrative subpoena used in terrorist investigations. The bureau, it turns out, was unable even to determine how many such subpoenas it has issued. Just weeks earlier, it was discovered that the FBI had been misreporting the statistics that it uses to track its intelligence