Letter to the editor: FBI is a laughingstock

OPINION:

For the most of the past 30 years, the FBI has been characterized as a bunch of fumbling, bungling idiots responsible for various stunts and blunders. What the organization hasn’t been known as is physically weak — until now.

Last week, an FBI agent was compromised at gunpoint by two thugs who carjacked his government-issue vehicle near the U.S. Capitol (“FBI agent carjacked in Washington, latest in string of high-profile carjackings,” web, Nov. 29).

We know Attorney General Merrick Garland has weaponized the Justice Department, turning it into an instrument for attacking the 
civil liberties of various targeted groups. Concomitantly, average Americans realize that Mr. Garland’s vacuous FBI director is negligent.

But to have an armed FBI agent taken down at gunpoint by two criminals is not only pathetic, it is laughable. Apparently, the bureau is now infested with a bunch of weaklings who are unable to defend themselves against two street criminals. 

The FBI seems to be as much of a joke as Muriel Bowser, the mayor of Washington, who last week left her crime-ridden city to live it up in Dubai with her equally inept buddy, Vice President Kamala Harris. 

EARL BEAL

Terre Haute, Indiana