The BATFE and FBI are acting like step brothers
Agents of the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives are feuding over bomb investigations — racing each other to crime scenes, failing to share information and refusing to train together, according to a draft report obtained by The Associated Press.
The report says Justice Department bosses have repeatedly failed to fix the problem.
The Justice Department’s Inspector General, Glenn Fine, has drafted a preliminary report on the two agencies’ repeated squabbles to claim jurisdiction in investigations of explosives incidents across the country — from Times Square in New York City to Arizona and the West Coast.
The most recent documented spat came last December when the FBI protested a local prosecutor’s request to use the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives to investigate a blast that killed a local bomb technician in Woodburn, Ore.
While I am loathe to encourage any onerous federal agency, I would like to give a boost to the Fibbies on this one. The past and current actions of the BATFElchers show that they cannot be trusted in the future and need to be immediately disbanded and fall straight into the dustbin of American history. Any BATFE agents who’d like to not be out of work had better get their resumes and proof of a clean civil rights record off to the Hoover Building, post haste.
Hear, Hear.