Professor Elam

FBI Director Freeh yesterday apologized for what the Justice Dept auditors termed shoddy bookkeeping and inadequate record keeping.  Seems that ‘thousands’ (yeah right, read millions) of telephone and e mail records were requested by the FBI above and beyond requirements.  Congresss is, as usual, outraged but also totally oblivious that anything was wrong.  Didn’t Coleen Rowley complain about the lack of interest post 9/11 by anybody at the FBI.  Five years later and what have we here?  Would anyone tolerate this at McDonald’s or Fed Express?  Should we continue to tolerate it?  Is anyone so naive that they believe either party truly has any intention of doing anything other than blaming the other party?

Update, now Atty Gen Gonzales admits FBI broke the law.

Gee you would never know that to look at FBI National Security Branch.

First Congress and the President are ignorant of conditions at Walter Reed. Now they don’t know what is going on at FBI.  My take is that the span of control has gotten so large that literally no one is effectively in charge or has oversight of the Fed Govt.  This has truly become the Gang that Can’t Shoot Straight. While companies are using JIT, ABC, TQM to improve the Feds seem to just get worse.

A pox on both  their houses, what say you?