Wednesday, May 29, 2002

Bob Mueller's announcement of reorganization of the FBI are pretty pointless.

A few observations:

1. The FBI has a legitimate mission that it must continue to do. Reorganizing it to fight terrorism is like trying to repair a car while it's running down the highway.

2. Two scriptural allusions: A house divided against itself cannot stand. Don't put new wine in old bottles. The FBI has evolved for one purpose, to build cases and convict criminals. It has been slapped silly because of abuses of its investigatory power in the past, and has just gone through 8 years where it was held in deep distrust by the administration. Now we're expecting it to turn on a dime and change its culture and methods to counter a threat nobody took seriously during all those years.

3. The skills and thought processes of intelligence gathering and prevention of terrorist attacks is different from coming in after the fact and gathering proof for use in court. Mueller wants to bring up some CIA hotshots to run the FBI's new program, but I think it will just create a lot of friction and interference with each other.



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