F.B.I. Struggles to Handle Wave of Financial Fraud Cases

[mendeleev 68]

"WASHINGTON — The Federal Bureau of Investigation is struggling to find enough agents and resources to investigate criminal wrongdoing tied to the country’s economic crisis, according to current and former bureau officials.

The bureau slashed its criminal investigative work force to expand its national security role after the Sept. 11 attacks, shifting more than 1,800 agents, or nearly one-third of all agents in criminal programs, to terrorism and intelligence duties. Current and former officials say the cutbacks have left the bureau seriously exposed in investigating areas like white-collar crime, which has taken on urgent importance in recent weeks because of the nation’s economic woes."

<article continues> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/19/washington/19fbi.html?hp

Here we have more evidence of just how far Bush and his allies in Congress, like McCain, have sold us down the river.

[nunyab 0]

hummmmmmm i don't know how hard it is to do a name check and why so many had to be realocated since not all visas require it but it's a government agency

[peejay 327]

Here we have more evidence of just how far Bush and his allies in Congress, like McCain, have sold us down the river.

Yes...and they are probably to blame for your hemorhoids too.

But where does the Democrat majority congress fit in to your plot? What have they been up to while all these shenanegans have been going down?