Everyone escapes the FBI!!!!

[Tmy]

Eric Rudolf, on the run for years before being caught bya rookie cop

That Smart girl, missing for months even though she was in the city.

Unibomber, caught only after his brother ratted on him.

Anthrax killer(s) at large.

Boston mobster Whitey Bulger at large.


DC Snipers, caught aftera trucker called cops on them.

What high profile fugitives have the FBI captured. Its embarrassing.

[Tony]

I think the argument could be made that political correctness and beaurocracy has castrated the FBI (and the CIA). The question is, how do we improve them?

[Tmy]

Or maybe its the FBI's image. People dont seem to trust or like them. Wh/o the help of John Public the FBI is not nearly effective.

[Jedi Knight]

Originally posted by Tmy
Eric Rudolf, on the run for years before being caught bya rookie cop

Even though the FBI didn't catch Rudolf right away, look at the impact they had on Rudolf. The guy was eating out of a garbage can. Is that really "escaping"?

That Smart girl, missing for months even though she was in the city.

Thousands of people come up missing in the United States. The police are not omnipotent. It is hard work tracking missing people down.

My sister was kidnapped in the 1970's. Her story was a pretty remarkable one, a case that should be a made for TV movie. When returning from Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada (she was in the Air Force at that time) she was kidnapped by 4 people who were criminal felons.

The FBI came to our house (I was just a little kid then but I remember them because they were dressed in suits and shiny black shoes) and then they went after the people who had my sister. Within a week they found her and captured all of the kidnappers, all of them sent to jail and my sister was rescued.

I like the FBI and I think they do a great job.

Unibomber, caught only after his brother ratted on him.

Not true. The FBI had narrowed a geographical region to where the Unibomber was located. Also, was Ted "free"? If you think living in an 8 x 10 log cabin with no toilet and running water is freedom, think again.

Anthrax killer(s) at large.

Have their been any new Anthrax attacks? It may be the FBI is on the trail of the Anthrax bandit.

Boston mobster Whitey Bulger at large.

With the FBI is right behind him in Europe. Bulger isn't "free" either. When guys like Bulger make the FBI's most wanted list, every bounter hunter from here to Taiwan and back is looking for them, as well as every police officer. Those people on the list were finished the day their names got plastered in the poster.

DC Snipers, caught aftera trucker called cops on them.

Which I blame on the police chief. He knew the shooters were black guys but told everyone they were 'white' or 'hispanic'.

What high profile fugitives have the FBI captured. Its embarrassing.

They have captured thousands of high-profile people. Go to their website and look at all the high-profile Al Qaida terrorists they captured. Also, the FBI is responsible for making most organized crime in this country unpalatable for those criminals through the FBI's heroic efforts.

The FBI is doing a great job. Police investigations take time and soometimes do not work out the way people or the leftist media want them to. The leftist media does not set timelines on police investigations.

JK

[Tmy]

If theyre not in a jail cell then they have escaped.

As for Eric Rudolph, he looked a little to healthy for soemone who supposably lived under a rock.

Methinks those mountain rednecks were all to happy to help out a an anti-gov't religious kook who blows up abortion clinics and gay clubs. He's a hero.

[jj]

Originally posted by Tmy
Eric Rudolf, on the run for years before being caught bya rookie cop

That Smart girl, missing for months even though she was in the city.

Unibomber, caught only after his brother ratted on him.

Anthrax killer(s) at large.

Boston mobster Whitey Bulger at large.


DC Snipers, caught aftera trucker called cops on them.

What high profile fugitives have the FBI captured. Its embarrassing.

I think that's being a bit rough on them.

However, it is clear that the Bureau does have some substantial problems, I suspect many of them left over from the original management.

I also suspect that the politicians who push them this way and that, requiring them to take on the veneer of each administration, makes it hard for them to steer a middle course.

Having said that, the way that they are persuing the guy accused of the Anthrax attacks is frightening, and reminiscent of the way that they persued the guy who was innocent of the Atlanta Olympics bombing.

Some points I have to make about others' responses. It is clear that Rudolph was NOT reduced to eating out of garbage cans. His state of health is far, far too good. He was obviously getting substantial, deliberate, organized help from someone. I do hope that the FBI is now trying to find out who was aiding and abetting.

The DC sniper was a case of someone who had splendid tactics, who understood how to not get caught for a while, until simple bad luck exposed him/them. That's what happened.

While I think they need to be more concerned with real personal and property crime (that would include "white-collar crime", please) and less with politics and regulatory crimes, I'm not sure how they can do that and deal with congress, either this one that would have them arrest anyone who disagrees with the congress and president, or the last one, who had a completely different stance.

The bad thing about a long-term director is that the director's ideas, fears, and paranoias get built into the organization. The good thing is that you don't get politically incapacitated.