Desperate FBI Manhunt

The Times is reporting that the FBI is struggling to find enough agents to investigate financial industry shenanigans leading up to the meltdown.

After 9/11 the Bureau shifted1,800 agents from anti-crime work to anti-terrorism (you know how crime always goes down when terrorism goes up), so now they would be short-handed even if the financial industry mess were not so large and so complex.

The Times says people inside and outside the Bureau “wonder where the agents will come from and whether they will be enough.”

Really. Wall Street and the mortgage banks are laying off tens of thousands of financial experts, and the FBI can’t imagine where to find any? These are people who know the workings of the financial system top to bottom and inside out.

They even know where the bodies are buried!

If the Bureau is investigating Lehman Brothers, why not have a couple of traders and bond underwriters from Lehman Brothers on the case?

In the crony-rich, ideologically driven, faith-based Bush bureaucracy, tapping a readily-available pool of unemployed masters of the universe simply makes too much sense to consider.

Of course the secrecy-loving Bush administration warlords have consistently refused to give the FBI the money to hire more agents anyway. That’s the thing about Bush bureaucrats. Wherever two or more of them are gathered in his name, there is “Duh!”

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