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Everything from the agent, to the SAC, up to the training in Quantico is at fault in this one.

Poor Tactics, Poor Training, Poor Planning, Poor Execution... The list goes on.

Typical Bureau screw-up. The attitude has always been, "We're the FBI and we can do what ever we want! J. Edgar said so!" Never mind their training is poor, they only take on cases when they are open and shut, their investigative practices are 20 years behind the curve, and they now so focused on investigating terrorism, that actual victims of crime suffer.

Now don't get me wrong there are good FBI agents out there and investigating bank robberies is one of their high profile activities that they do some good work in from time to time. However, making a felony stop in unmarked vehicle, dressed in plain clothes, carried a sub machine gun, with your finger on the trigger is recipe for disaster. I'm suprised not more of these things happen.

Proper procedure if need to make a stop is to ask for local PD assistance, if available. If not exit your vehicle wearing your raid coat or windbreaker with the big yellow letters FBI on the back. (Kind of impedes good samaritans from maistaking your felony stop for car jacking and drawing down on you.... Just a little word of advice to all agents, from someone who works in the investigative / protective industry.) And never, never, ever, put your finger on the trigger until you are ready to shoot and engaging a target / threat. (engrained in my head and my trigger finger since the time, I picked up a gun as a young boy.) Still every time, I go train on the firing line, I still hear the familiar phrase "Get your finger off the freaking trigger!" or some variation there of.