Domestic spying vs. secret police - MSGOP

[dArKeR]

 It should have been a great news day for the FBI, the kind that finds the agency director, Robert Mueller, beaming on the evening news about the competence and foresight his agents showed in bringing down one of the most vicious terrorist organizations on the planet. On Aug. 7, based solely on the testimony of an FBI informant who bravely infiltrated the group, a court in Dublin, Ireland, convicted Michael McKevitt, the leader of the Real IRA, responsible for the 1998 bombing at Omagh, Northern Ireland, that killed 29 people.

 BUT THE FBI director chose not to emphasize the story and he did not appear in any of the day’s coverage. Nor was the achievement — recruiting and training an American businessman to pose as a dimwitted Irish-American gunrunner — heralded on the FBI’s Web site as an example of what the agency can achieve in its undercover operations.
       “The agency doesn’t want to trumpet this case,” says an American law enforcement official involved in it. “Look, they’ve been going around saying they couldn’t infiltrate al-Qaida because of legal constraints and other issues. Now, this shows that all the while they were doing exactly to the Real IRA what they should have been doing to al-Qaida. That’s a dot they don’t want anyone connecting.”

http://msnbc.com/news/948164.asp?0cv=CB10

[damnraddem]

1. LOL!

They show their true priorities, achieve success, and then realize that they dare not advertise their true priorities.