Understanding Your FBI

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is 100 years old this year. To commemorate the occasion the website features the story of the violent death of Bonnie and Clyde, folks who came from my current neck of the woods. To quote the intro:

Bonnie and Clyde
Seventy-four years ago this month, the hunt for the most notorious crime couple in American history came to a violent end.

Prowling around the FBI website turned up some interesting finds. First was the page for the National Security Branch. National Security Letters made the news last March. Breaking news yesterday regarded the formation of a Northern Virginia Public Corruption/Government Fraud Task Force. Let’s hope that they can give us some protection before the big elections in the fall.

Around the Internet — The search term “fbi” returned 57,600,000 entries, including – of course – Wikipedia’s. I feel sure that the FBI has someone assigned to monitor the Wiki site to assure accuracy, given that they had 28,576 employees in 2004. The FBI seems almost ubiquitous. And we are told that every single one of them is out there to protect us in some way.

Just so you can’t say you didn’t know — The 2008 Republican National Convention is September 1-4, in Minneapolis-Saint Paul. — Depending whether you inside or outside of the fence at the Republican Convention, this news will hit you from opposite psychological directions.

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