FBI might go undercover in Congress?

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Oh, God, please let them use my city as their training ground.

FBI willing to go undercover in Congress if necessary

WASHINGTON - The new chief of the FBI's Criminal Division, which is swamped with public corruption cases, says the bureau is ramping up its ability to catch crooked politicians and might run an undercover sting on Congress.

Assistant FBI Director James Burrus called the bureau's public corruption program "a sleeping giant that we've awoken," and predicted the nation will see continued emphasis in that area "for many, many, many years to come."

So much evidence of wrongdoing is surfacing in the nation's capital that Burrus recently committed to adding a fourth 15- to 20-member public corruption squad to the FBI's Washington field office.

In the past year, former Republican Reps. Duke Cunningham and Bob Ney have pleaded guilty to corruption charges. FBI agents are investigating about a dozen other members of Congress, including as many as three senators. The Justice Department also is expected to begin seeking indictments soon after a massive FBI investigation of the Alaska Legislature.

If conditions warrant, Burrus said, he wouldn't balk at urging an undercover sting like the famed Abscam operation in the late 1970s in which a U.S. senator and six House members agreed on camera to take bribes from FBI agents posing as Arab sheikhs.




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[C_U_L8R]

1. where have they been for the past ten years?

so now the FBI shows up on the eve of the
demise of the repuiblican reign of corruption??
Maybe if they'd been doing their job going
after these crooks, we wouldn;'t have such
a mess to clean up. Jeeez.

[Actionmac]

3. running from cheney's hunting invite for 6 of those yrs

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6. The answer to that question should be a priority of their investigations.

[Jim Sagle]

2. The whole point will be to entrap Democrats and turn the House Republican again.

[Actionmac]

4. more like get even with the repubs for screwing them over...

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8. If there were improprieties, then they need to be investigated.

Why should they get a 6 year free ride?

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7. Actually, if absolute power corrupts absolutely, then it's a good

idea to have them in town. It's not like temptation is something that Democrats have been known to resist. Remember, the same guys that corrupted the GOP have no real special allegiance.

[Sperk]

5. is that standard procedure to announce that you'll go undercover?

:eyes:

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9. I think, it's what you call, fair warning.

Now the new Dems that come in, know not to excacerbate the problem. They can't claim they were picked on. I like to think of it as that last battle scene in BeastMaster, when those giant birdlike creatures came in and wrapped up all the bad guys, digesting them where they stood.