A rogue agency, whose very mission was to interfere with the rights of American citizens was, during the Clinton Days given a legitimate mission, later was merged with the good guys. You know, the F.B.I. Well, it appears that they still find it impossible to play well with others. From the folks that brought you Ruby Ridge and the holocaust at Waco we have them acting like cocaine gang bangers involved in a turf war.
Here’s what I think. Get rid of everyone of them, and turn over any duties that they are rightfully performing to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24549241
In the five years since the FBI and ATF were merged under the Justice Department to coordinate the fight against terrorism, the rival law enforcement agencies have fought each other for control, wasting time and money and causing duplication of effort, according to law enforcement sources and internal documents.
Their new boss, the attorney general, ordered them to merge their national bomb databases, but the FBI has refused. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has long trained bomb-sniffing dogs; the FBI started a competing program.
At crime scenes, FBI and ATF agents have threatened to arrest one another and battled over jurisdiction and key evidence. The ATF inadvertently bought counterfeit cigarettes from the FBI — the government selling to the government — because the agencies are running parallel investigations of tobacco smuggling between Virginia and other states.
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