Like I said, This is the kind of detail work which was once done very well by the F.B.I.
I did not say the work above was THE work which is THE immediate responsibility of the F.B.I.
I said it was the kind of work: Thorough application to details.
However, since you somewhat asked, I am given to understand, the F.B.I. is part of the investigation, wearing out the soles of their shoes, like they once did, very well ... right there on some of the actual work details with the Postal Inspectors.
Also, U.S. Secret Service.
They share workloads on the nitty gritty detail stuff.
What those particulars are, I cannot tell you.
But you might say, that there's a bit of a push on to get back to what works.
This kind of work --- the need for it --- cannot be overstressed, especially at the state police departments' level across the country.
The states need to dramatically beef up their highway patrol; they need to triple their investigative operations; and they practically need to do it overnight.
Yet overall, they need to follow the once, good model of when the F.B.I. really performed thorough investigations.
This is a method for defense of our communities --- the resolve that a "bad guy's" work will come to light, and he and his will be smoked --- make life miserable for the plotters of destruction.
This work is tedious, but it should not be forsaken as it has, in exchange for newsreel time demonstrating budgetary "justification" by way of accosting people.
It is often possible to know so much more about a person, when it comes to whether or not they mean harm, by thorough fact-finding from the distance.
The greatest artists in the F.B.I. were the agents who knew you but you never knew it. Investigators who came into your life and then left, you, unaware.
Instead of trying to impress upon you, their authority being a legend in their own mind.