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Originally posted by Undertoad
NBC News reported last night that the FBI is investigating a group of five men of middle-eastern descent, in Florida, who purchased special "rebreather" scuba gear, special expensive gear that doesn't make bubbles while in use.
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Take all those terrorists warnings current from the federal government with a major grain of salt. Start with the probably ficticious story from only one prisioner about attacks on the Brooklyn Bridge and Statue of Liberty. Warnings released only after the press was asking questions - thank goodness - about what George Jr knew and when he knew it. Warnings released so you would (hopefully) forget about a major management problem only compounded by top officials who ignored the problem.
Six months and still the administration did not address a classic MBA type mismanagement in the FBI. Their only response to major managment failure has been more bureaucracy - in classic MBA style - the Office of Homeland Security. Only when the press starts asking questions about no response by top federal officials, then those officials start preaching all kinds of 'maybe' terrorist warnings. See these threats for what they most likely appear to be. Anything so you won't notice major management failure.
George Jr and company did nothing about that FBI management problem until the press finally embarrassed them into action. And what did they do? Throw more money and people at the problem rather than addressing what is probably too many layers of management and too much managment ignorance of how the work gets done. Too many layers of management is solved by MBA mentalities by making more layers of management, and by throwing money and people at the problem. How many managers in Washington, including the FBI director and his staff have actually worked in the field - or in a related function? If zero, then you know the entire top management is the problem - classic MBA disease. 85% of all problems are directly traceable to top management. Greater if same management did not address solutions.
We all but know the FBI operates with an MBA mentality. Field Offices are ignored. Scathing memos are quashed until the press recently forced their exposure. Agents in the field must get permission in Washington before following up on an investigation. Micromanagement excellcious - classic MBA disease. We can all but suspect those middle management officials who quashed facts of an impending WTC attack probably have little to zero field experience AND were still working their same jobs without change until the press recently exposed top management federal government failures. Suddenly memos are arrising everywhere from the field about Washington FBI incompetence. How many other agencies have the same problem - or do we have to wait for more press to find the whistle blowers. Whistle blowers are the enemy of MBA type management.
So instead we have numerous 'possible' terrorist attacks from an administration that would subvert all other law enforcement to promote their terrorism agenda - which centers on eventual unilateral attacks on Iraq, Iran, and N Korea. That axis of evil nonsense is the entire center of a George Jr foreign policy - even though terrorism is not the single major threat to the US.