9:17 AM 9/26/2019 - A Former Agent Investigates the F.B.I. and Finds It Lacking
"The problem, German compellingly argues, isn’t simply that the F.B.I. has targeted innocent people in the name of national security. It’s that the agency’s obsessions fuel discrimination and violence against racial, ethnic, religious and political minorities, while allowing other security threats — like those now posed by white nationalists — to go unchecked. Consider what happened after 9/11: Resources were diverted from domestic extremist terrorism and into investigations of Islamic terrorism, even though statistically, homegrown right-wing extremists are arguably a greater threat." "Since there is little public data “on how the F.B.I. uses its intelligence and investigative powers,” it’s almost impossible to evaluate whether the F.B.I. gets it mostly right or mostly wrong." 9:17 AM 9/26/2019 - A Former Agent Investigates the F.B.I. and Finds It Lacking Berlin bookburning rally Michael_Novakhov shared this story from The FBI News Review.