Why the FBI Cannot Be Permitted Expanded Powers to Initiate Investigations

As I previously mentioned, Attorney General Alberto Mukasey wants to give the FBI the power to initiate investigations for no goddamn reason at all.

This is an example of why it is a bad idea. The FBI spent years investigating one guy because the dumb fucks at the Army Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command suspected him of espionage.

What were the indications? He carried a backpack instead of a briefcase. (Yes, that is one thing the Army morons complained about.) He spoke Hebrew (one of the reasons he was both hired and suspicioned) and, worst of all, he was an observant Jew.

For those reasons, the FBI raided his home, on the Sabbath, no less. For those reasons, some witch-doctor of a polygraph examiner started screaming at him: "I've done other Jews before and gotten them to confess, and I'll get you, too." For those reasons, the management at the TACOM referred to him, in writing, as "the little Jewish spy."

And Mukasey wants to loosen the reins on the FBI?

No fucking way, Alberto.

(H/T to the Political Cat)