[ninonitti]

Does anyone else here have second thoughts about granting goons like Barry Mawn MORE power to act like this?

This is the same FBI office that hasn't made a public corruption case in 3 or 4 decades.

It's part of the same FBI that had evidence of the AlQueda network and their plans YEARS ago and yet couldn't put two and two together.

I personally would have trouble giving anyone from this agency $10 to go get coffee for fear that they'd screw the order up.

Thank God we'll have the Feds now running airport security.

[meridia]

Thank you for posting this. Is the DOJ doing a formal investigation into this? I mean, really, this is HORRIFYING, particularly as the bin Laden family owns classy condominiums in Boston, and because al-Qaeda purposively picked LOGAN International Airport. This is just appalling, and like you, I do NOT believe it is evidence of a PR problem.

Geesh...

[mgist]

All those claims are nothing compared to the corruption at presididential levels during Clinton's term. I never read anything that even sounded like a complaint about that administration from the Boston Herald. Now all of the sudden they are concerned about corruption? Puleeze, now they're all trying to pretend they are OReilly.

[Doc Savage]

Don't forget the recent arrest of a Boston FBI agent for fraud in obtaing a sit-down lawn mower in Virginia, and a pal of his who beat up his wife and was suspended.

PR my arse!!

[Cosmologist]

We are talking about Boston here! This is the core support group of the national Liberials, Lesbians, Queers, Gore, Hillary, you name it - They couldn't find their common collective sense in that hole called Boston. Just my humble opinion now.

[Demidog]

Does anyone else here have second thoughts about granting goons like Barry Mawn MORE power to act like this?

Not me. I love the FBI and as we all know they did such a good job of protecting us on 9/11.

And if they didn't it was because they weren't given complete authority to spy on us and hold us in prison indefinately.

[bvw]

This is their bridge too far. It is the rope that hangs centralized Federalism. That the Fed's are now running airport security.

Four years from now when people ar trying to paste together the completely failed airline industry from turbo-prop and fanjet local shuttles, they will remember and lament the glory that was aviation in 2001, how a family could travel coast-to-coast in six hours on a mammoth jetliner and not the 30+ hours the small short hoppers take, or the 72 hours by train that bicoastal travel in 2005 requires.

Yet at the same time we will be building the airline industry up the right way, from the ground up, by private industry with a scorn for federal regulation and booby-trapped hand-outs of money or federal services.

[bvw]

And to the primary point -- this kind of attitude is that of a cad. Not a millisecond longer should he hold any position of authority. It is a completely irresponsible attitude.