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Monday, June 20, 2005

FBI Sees No Difference Between Crime and Terrorism

This article from the Washington Post today is disturbing. The FBI still doesn't seem to understand or care about the differences between a regular criminal attack and a terrorist attack:
In hundreds of pages of sworn testimony obtained by The Associated Press, senior FBI managers argued repeatedly that Middle East and anti-terrorism experience aren't required for promotion and that they see little difference between solving a traditional crime and a terror attack.

"A bombing case is a bombing case," said Dale Watson, the FBI's terrorism chief in the two years after Sept. 11, 2001. "A crime scene in a bank robbery case is the same as a crime scene, you know, across the board."

The FBI is still a disfunctional organization and the culture needs to change. It seems to me that terrorism experience would be pretty handy in solving a terror attack, but then again, I'm not in the FBI.