After arresting alleged spy Robert Hanssen last week, the FBI says it is going to get serious about its efforts to “thwart” spying efforts by tidying up its abysmal internal security problems. These changes are being made, we are told in not so many words, because the bureau is concerned about present and future spying efforts.
That’s not so hard to believe. What’s hard to believe is why security at the FBI and other high-level U.S. intelligence agencies at the State Department and the CIA got so bad in the first place.
As far as the bureau is concerned, though, FBI Director Louis Freeh said Friday that his department would initiate a new bureau-wide polygraph testing program and “redesign” the bureau’s computers so that future spies could be identified or caught more easily in the future. To demonstrate his “resolve,” Freeh said he’d take the first test.
Excuse me if I don’t do cartwheels and back-flips over these “revolutionary” new security suggestions; coming on the heels of one of the bureau’s worst espionage-related black eyes, as usual U.S. officials are simply trying to close the barn door after the horse has slipped out. And Freeh’s “willingness” to be the first one is nothing more than window dressing — like he has even the slightest chance of “flunking” it anyway. If he did, you and I would never know about it.
The fact is, if the FBI already gave a damn about security, these and other “security programs” would have already been in place. A responsible Congress and White House would have, long ago, also made sure these programs were being utilized.
But wait, some of these programs were in place at one time.
In particular, as WND reported recently, the polygraph testing was being utilized in the 1980s. That is, until then-FBI Director William H. Webster “pulled the plug on a bureau-wide polygraph exam program after a high-level FBI official flunked his own lie-detector test.”
What’s worse is that Webster is the guy Freeh just appointed to review internal security procedures in the wake of the Hanssen disaster.
Oh well.
I’m sure confident Webster will get this all ironed out, aren’t you?
What’s going on here, you ask? Why, it is simply more of the “shell blame game” being played by good ol’ boys and girls in the power elite in D.C. You know the ones — the pals of higher powers who are experts at faking responsible and non-corrupt government in an effort to appear to be doing something about all these little problems when they crop up.
This so-called “review” of FBI procedures — just by the mere fact that a corrupt individual is conducting it — already tells me it will progress just long enough for the public to turn down the heat and again look away to the night’s basketball game or movie of the week.
Also, this scam review also tells me that another “shell blame game” is being played. I’ll bet good money most of this “review” will find that the bulk of the security problems leading to Hanssen’s alleged espionage activities will be laid at the feet of the Clinton administration.
Now don’t get me wrong; there is lots of evidence to suggest that the FBI — as well as the Justice Department, State Department, military intelligence services, national weapons laboratories and the CIA — were corrupted under the last administration, largely because its minions ordered once-strenuous security measures loosened up.
But the fact is, Hanssen is accused of spying for 15 years — well beyond the influence of the Clinton administration and into the (anybody?) Reagan and Bush administrations of days past.
So who do you think is going to be actually held responsible for this?
Try no one.
In a corporate environment, whenever a company performs badly, what happens? The CEO takes it on the chin; he or she is fired and somebody else is hired to “get the company back on track.”
Don’t think for one moment that Webster will accept any blame for what he did, or that he will even be blamed for it. Also, don’t expect today’s leading elites to string up Freeh or his deputies, even though they’ve been around “running the company” for quite awhile and endured the lax security procedures (rather than resign) for the sake of self-serving political purposes.
In a shell game, you never know where the little bead is. In the political “shell blame game,” you never know where the blame lies because nobody has the integrity, guts or leadership qualities to name names and point fingers.
And who suffers? That would be you and me — the people who are overtaxed to pay the salaries of these degenerates so they can lie to us, cheat us out of justice and shirk their elected or appointed responsibilities.
The fact is, when the fox runs the henhouse, there is no accountability and no explanation as to why there aren’t any eggs left.
Recently, a few observant columnists have poignantly compared modern-day America to the decrepit, crumbling venality that ate the ancient Roman Empire. I think that’s appropriate because as this latest pledge to “fix” the FBI’s security problem will prove, you cannot get corrupt leaders to root out systemic corruption.
Democrats’ seething hatred for America
Wayne Allyn Root