Written by: Steven Thompson
Freedom From The Press

Public Corruption, according to the FBI website, “It’s #4 in our top 10 list of investigative priorities—following counter terrorism, espionage, and cyber.” The report we’re quoting from was provided by Supervisory Special Agent Dan O’Brien and was published on 06/20/2005.

After reading the report, what really had me scratching my head was this question and Dan O’Brien’s answer.

Q: What are you doing to stop public corruption?
Dan: “Plenty. We’ve got a strong national program with agents in place around the nation dedicated to the issue. In our investigations, we use every tool we’ve got—our cyber capabilities, our surveillance skills, our ability to track financial dealings around the world. Last year, we opened over 900 cases, which led to over 650 convictions or guilty pleas. We’re also proactive. We’ve got analysts specifically trained to uncover corruption, and our agents always have an eye out for new and evolving angles. We’ve got a new initiative to identify DMV employees nationwide who issue fraudulent IDs for bribes and kickbacks. And we’re working with state governments to identify fraud and ways to prevent it.” To read the entire report, click here.

Here’s the rub. According to William K. Black, a former director for fraud prevention, federal bank board regulator and current professor of economics and law at University of Missouri, Kansas City and, U.S. Rep. Marci Kaptur of Ohio, the FBI transferred hundreds of agents to combat terrorism thus neglecting the balance of the FBI’s duties during this time frame.

So whom do we believe? In hindsight, federal law enforcement were extremely effective in deterring additional terrorist attacks since 9/11, for which I’m very grateful but, wasn’t that a job for which Homeland Security was created and funded? That said, How could Special Agent Dan O’Brien claim in 2005 that the FBI was “proactive” in investigating corruption and fraud when the majority of the FBI’s fraud and corruption agents were assigned to work terrorism?

We can’t have it both way’s. Acts of control (accounting) fraud will likely bankrupt our entire country. Instead of spending money to hire and train more FBI agents to investigate and prosecute white collar ‘Wall Street” criminals, the federal government chose to handout hundreds of billions to the very criminals we should be prosecuting. Somethings really rotten in Washington DC and it’s not just the lobbyist or easily intimidated press corps I’m smelling.

Unlike the MSM, we’re not going to drop these issues until they’re resolved. America has a short memory because the MSM would rather waste time covering stories like balloon boy instead of holding government and Wall Street (con’s) accountable.