Kincaid is right. Bush’s failure to clean out the FBI, CIA, and State Dept. has left this country more vulnerable.
As bad as it is, bureaucratic incompetence is perhaps the least worrisome aspect to this case. Shouldn’t we also consider the possibility that someone within the FBI purposely routed the investigation away from the real suspects and toward an innocent man.
I do not doubt that the vast majority of FBI agents are honest hard working patriots but this is the same agency that allowed Robert Hanssen to pass secrets to the Russians for over 15 years.
Mother Jones columnist discusses FoxNews report.
“FBI’s Anthrax Gone Completely Cold,” Mother Jones, June 30, 2008
http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2008/06/8842_has_the_anthrax.html
It is worse than this actually. You cannot fix the bureaucracies when the political appointees are a bunch of 2nd rate political hacks. The now begone Secretary of the Air Force, and the horse jockey whose ineptitude in managing FEMA are symptomatic of the problem. Gates and Petraeus were not Bush insiders. Bush had to run through all the incompetents that he put in place before competence was finally force on him in a last act of desperation.
I do not doubt that the vast majority of FBI agents are honest hard working patriots but this is the same agency that allowed Robert Hanssen to pass secrets to the Russians for over 15 years.
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And this also proves Bush’s incompetence, I suppose.