Apparently, several senior FBI officials staged a sham conference so that they could come to D.C., attend a colleague’s retirement party, and be reimbursed for their travel expenses (as it would be an “official visit for a conference”, not merely dropping by to say farewell to a friend).
The sham conference was titled “Integrity in Law Enforcement.”
I’m fucking choking on the irony here.
WTF? Losing papers, losing guns, losing laptops… what have you fuckwits been doing the last few years? And for top leadership to have the hubris to bilk money from the feds- under the direct guise of trying to implement a better sense of ethics in the department- what the fuck were you thinking? Didn’t you realize that nothing attracts journalists like the smell of irony?
You think that’s bad, all those requests need to be filed with the Department of Redundancy Department, and they still made it through in time.
Uh-oh…now they’ve got the “Officers that watch the officers that watch the officers” (for those internal affair agents)? Will beauracratic wonders never cease?!?
Talk about an image problem! I am sure there are persons in the FBI that are genuine and can be relied upon to perform their duties in accordance with the law. Someone needs to weed out the bad apples or no one will have any faith in anything the FBI does.
The real problem is one of leadership. The vast majority of agents want to do the right thing, they’ve just got no respected leaders to show them the way. Until they get the kind of leadership they deserve, they’re gonna have to deal with outsiders keeping tabs on them.