The clowns in black.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: TILTING at windmills - Federal Bureau of Investigation - Brief article

Be sure to read Tim Weiner's Enemies. It is a history of the FBI's many failures and occasional successes. The former include Ruby Ridge; Waco; the escape of the traitor Eddy Howard, who was able to flee to Moscow with the names of CIA agents because the FBI was parked in front of his house while he departed from the back; the failure to sniff out traitor Robert Hanson who, for twenty-two years, while working for the FBI, slipped name after name of American agents to the Russians, often leading to their execution; and the similar failure with regard to Katrina Leung, a Chinese spy who managed to bed two...