I suspect you’re right...ominous would have been the word. But it was also kind of onerous, in the sense of burdensome, because they had to work their backsides off coordinating the “insurance.” Probably the most work they’d ever done at their agency in their entire lives.
That said, it’s an excellent article and he sets out everything as it should be. I know there are some good people in the FBI but it looks like that was by accident and by the time they’d been in for a few years, it was all about pleasing the boss. I think J. Edgar Hoover ran it that way, too; he did identify communists, but he was no hero and certainly not very ethical.
I think the whole agency needs to be shut down and something else built. It is helpful for a country this big to have a national police force that can help in the coordination of interstate investigations, etc. although some LEO family members say the FBI actually messes it up, because they come in and take over, even though they don’t know anything about the situation. So a replacement agency and its powers have got to be carefully thought out.
“I think the whole agency needs to be shut down and something else built.”
I agree. And the folks involved in this need to be prosecuted, as well. ALL of them. I’m thinking James Gagliano would be a good person to be involved in setting up the successor organization. He knows what it’s supposed to do, and what it MUST NOT DO!