In Other Law Enforcement News
The BBC has an article about the New York ‘lone wolf’ bomb maker that Tsar Michael made such a fuss over on Sunday.
Great, they had a ‘show and tell’ with a lot of props and videos to explain their side of the story. I have a problem with this. The people at the news conference were all officials from New York City. The alleged ‘terrorist’ is being charged under New York law and will be tried in a New York court.
Excuse me, but you get extra special ‘merit badges’ if you are a Fed and get an indictment for terrorism. If the defendant is actually convicted your personnel file gets an embossed gold star on the front. Where were the Feds?
Apparently the Feds declined the opportunity to be involved. The FBI turned down an opportunity to be at a news conference‽ The case must be really shaky, because the Feds steal good cases from locals all the time.
Charlie Pierce notes that former FBI Director Louis Freeh has been tasked by Pennsylvania State University to head the internal investigation into the Sandusky Affair. Freeh has a lot in common with Pierre de Lancre, another famous ‘witch hunter’.
This move may calm the alumni, but don’t expect anything worthwhile, like facts or the truth, to result.
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Hmm it sounds like the guy they caught was pretty small fry, not that he couldn’t have wreaked havoc of course.
If he was actually able to build a bomb he could have created havoc, but he wasn’t using gunpowder, he was supposedly attempting to mix up an explosive from a formula on a web site.
The ability to download recipes doesn’t make you a cook.
It turns out that the confidential informant bought all the goodies for making the bomb and gave them to the dude. The Feds turned the case down because they couldn’t figure out who was the criminal — the CI, or the supposed perp. Chalk another one up for the NYPD, the gang that can’t shoot straight — heck, they even manage to pepper-spray their own officers when trying to pepper-spray protesters. Yay.
– Badtux the Snarky Penguin
I knew there had to be a major problem with the case. I have seen the Feds grab too many cases from locals, to believe they wanted to share the limelight for a change, especially with a ‘terrorism’ case.
This is what happens when you militarized the police. Military criminal investigations really suck, because the investigators have military attitudes, and that doesn’t work in criminal cases. It is a different mindset. It took some ‘unlearning’ before I could do it properly.