Saturday, July 26, 2008

Bureau Celebration

This past week the 'America's Most Wanted' http://www.amw.com/ website reminded us that "...FBI's 100th birthday this Saturday..." -- that's today. In the minds of cultists, this event will be traced to one person, preferably one of their immediate relative names.

What else do we known about AMW? ...that founder John Walsh lost his son during a shopping expedition, perhaps not-so familiar with the paying side of the check-out station; the child was said to have been found in a canal. This past year a man with a Germanic surname was reported in the Palm Beach Post newspaper to be found in canal submerged in his car, said to have been underwater more than 10 years. The AMW website also tells us that Mr. Walsh (whose surname appears as the name of a school located in San Francisco, CA, 'Archbishop Walsh High School') is not clear about what happened to his son. Influence-network telephone calls received in San Francisco, CA, at that time describing the boy's disappearance may have taken the literary reference to a possible "watery grave" more than a tad too seriously.

The FBI has been short-changed in terms of information input in many documentable ways that have hindered its investigative effectiveness. As example, 'family cops' backed among family members to join a local police force tend to absorb information that plaintiffs legally should be able to report at a police station to the entire police force. Also, where FBI should receive data not related to police officers' day-to-day duties, walk-ins to the stations can be easily blocked with work-demand calls. The most outrageous example of such information blockage has been the development and mass production of automated teller machines introduced as banking-domain money dispensers, whereas the original intent of such equipment development was to provide street-level data-input ATM computer-linked terminals that would send observations and encounter data directly to FBI computer files using a keyboard.

The FBI agents are in general protected with cheerleader-type support staff who will not schedule time to talk with an agent after telephone request is made; no acknowledgement at all will be made from the agency offices other than nondocumented surveillance from other interested parties such as the relatives, friends and detractors of those Federal employees who have telephone-call tracing info occultly transmitted to them (i.e., mental telepathy, a term suddenly removed from many dictionaries decades ago).

That a type of wooden chest that is most commonly used to hold clothing is also termed a 'bureau' has impeded many investigations with the belief that the FBI agency simply 'collects' and stores data without analyzing it -- therefore, information flow unflattering to some parties can be diverted or blocked, using that point of view, from FBI contact.

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