Cincinnati? Senators from both parties calling for Inspector General for FBI.

I just heard on TV yesterday from Senators from both parties who are continuing to call for an Inspector General just for the FBI. Being that this is true, and that there is such a long history of screw-ups and bias in the FBI (SEE LIST BELOW), why should the people of Cincinnati trust the FBI to competently police the Cincinnati police?

What is really needed in Cincinnati is LOCAL SUBPOENA POWER and a powerful independent local police review board that takes over the functions of the internal affairs department of the Cincinnati police. Allowing the police to police the police is ridiculous on its face. It is time to institute civilian control of the police just as the President has civilian control of the military. It is time to END the POLICE STATE.

Nearly all other departments of government have their own Inspector General. There is one in the Department of Justice. The FBI is theoretically under the control of the Department of Justice. According to the Senators on TV yesterday, this is not good enough. The Senators say that there needs to be an Inspector General just for the FBI, an Inspector General unfettered by the Department of Justice.

Look up

inspector general fbi

inspector general fbi arlen

inspector general fbi schumer

in search engines such as Google.com
http://www.google.com

It is very enlightening. \"arlen\" term is for Republican Senator Arlen Spector. \"schumer\" term is for Democrat Senator Charles Schumer.

Here is a list of some of the FBI\'s more controversial problems found from such a search. This list comes from this May 15, 2001 USA TODAY article:
\"FBI critics anticipate target-rich environment.\"
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2001-05-15-fbi-woes.htm

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FBI critics have an impressive arsenal, including but not limited to:

The killing of the wife and teen-age son of separatist Randy Weaver at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, under questionable circumstances.

In concert with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, a disastrous incendiary raid on the Branch Davidian complex near Waco, Texas, in which an estimated 80 men, women and children died.

Failure, despite his bizarre and suspicious behavior, to finger highly ranked agent Robert Hanssen as a spy. Hanssen has been accused of turning over secrets to the Russians for well over a decade.

A clumsy, heavy-handed and basically fruitless investigation of Los Alamos scientist Wen Ho Lee, indicted on 159 counts of supplying nuclear secrets to China. All but one has been dismissed.

Hasty and incorrect identification of Atlanta security agent Richard Jewell as the still-uncaught Olympics bomber.

Failing to furnish for three decades some vital evidence in the 1963 Birmingham church bombing that killed four black girls, information that finally helped win conviction of an ex-Ku Klux Klansman this month.

Lots of favorable publicity about the FBI\'s investigations of kiddie porn, which dissolved when Senate investigators found only one full-time agent was assigned, while 81 worked in public affairs and congressional relations.
Discovery that the FBI\'s renowned crime lab was riddled with scientific flaws and pro-prosecution findings; chemist Frederic Whitehurst blew the whistle.

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Here is the full article:

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FBI critics anticipate target-rich environment.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2001-05-15-fbi-woes.htm

By John Hanchette and Ana Radelat, Gannett News Service

WASHINGTON