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Past time to "kick (posteriors) and take names"

Reader comment on item: The Saga of FBI Special Agent Gamal Abdel-Hafiz

Submitted by Merry Whitney (United States), Dec 14, 2005 at 04:18

Say what you will about J. Edgar Hoover, he wouldn't have allowed his FBI to come to this. Of course a bureaucracy as large, unwieldy and, against all logic and plain, everyday horse-sense, as politically correct as today's FBI, is going to have bad apples slip through now and then. But there is a remedy: Prosecute and incarcerate them.

I was dumb-founded to learn that terrorism supporter and fund-raiser Al-Arian had been acquitted on half of the charges, and hung the jury on the remainder. It begins to make sense, knowing he had his own FBI special agent Abdel-Hafiz in-pocket, to alert him to strengths and/or weaknesses of the Government case against him.

As to Mueller's "leadership" of the now Feeble Bureau of Investigation, I stand corrected. Al Kaplan was right, and I was obviously -- dare I say it? -- very naive. Kaplan called this one in August of 2002. Link below...

http://www.lasvegaspi.com/War%20on%20Terror-Who%20is%20running%20the%20FBI.htm
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Title Commenter Date Thread
3Mohamed el-Ibiary [93 words]dhimmi no moreMar 1, 2015 16:12222031
FBI & CIA Hiring practices should be reexamined [344 words]doomslayerAug 12, 2008 12:53136625
When the President calls a set of laws (sharia) directing the extinction of all non-believers through torture and death, a "religion of peace", we're all in trouble! [18 words]marleneAug 13, 2008 11:02136625
Is the FBI being destroyed? [660 words]Alan M. KaplanDec 15, 2005 02:3729979
Past time to "kick (posteriors) and take names" [151 words]Merry WhitneyDec 14, 2005 04:1829927
We got problems [77 words]ChrisDec 9, 2005 15:3029710

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