I've had some personal work experience with a few FBI agents and SAC's...a couple of embezzlement and workplace violence threat cases and joint training sessions on various topics, like counter-terrorism task force, mass shooter incidents, domestic terror and hate crime network, FEMA training.......all were professional, smart, hard-working and dedicated law enforcement peeps
ask the Mafia what they think of the FBI...
but they have also been used to mistreat American citizens whom the "establishment," the administration in power, deemed "subversives," especially during the Civil Rights era...ask MLK and the folks fighting for equal rights...
some of the same folks who supported them for that kind of stuff withdrew their support after WACO...they were criticized for being overly aggressive and impatient...rightly so...
I read a book by the FBI chief hostage negotiator for that incident, Gary Noesner, "Stalling for Time". He criticized the FBI's Critical Incident Response Team for undermining the negotiation team's progress. He believed they could have saved many more lives (Koresh released many women and children during the seige, and Noesner felt he was making progress for more) by continuing to communicate...
a lot of law enforcement agencies have the same mentality as the FBI's CIRT commander at WACO: they're dirtbag criminals and need their azzes kicked...
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