The FBI is very good at woke politics, not so good at catching killers
By Glenn H. Reynolds
April 1, 2021 | 6:23pm | Updated
If you watch TV crime shows, you would think the Federal Bureau of Investigation works tirelessly to protect us from terrorists and criminals. But the real FBI is a much less impressive organization.
After the horrendous Colorado shooting last week, we learned that the alleged shooter, Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, had a record of violence and arrests. His brother described him as mentally ill, paranoid and “very anti-social.†He was also on the FBI’s radar because of someone with whom he associated.
In this, Alissa joins a long list of “known-wolf†killers, including Nidal Hasan, the Fort Hood shooter; the Tsarnaev brothers, who conducted the Boston Marathon bombing; Omar Mateen, the Pulse nightclub shooter in Florida; and some of the 9/11 hijackers.
The FBI’s failure to catch that last set of perpetrators is especially enraging — and shows the agency has been atrophying for a long time. “For two and a half weeks before the attacks,†as Slate noted, “the US government knew the names of two hijackers. It knew they were al-Qaeda killers and that they were already in the United States.â€
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