James Bovard, in a short, but fairly wide-ranging article over at the Daily Caller, sticks a few pins in the FBI's puffed up reputation, starting with Richard Jewell and moving on to the search for Eric Rudolph* (the real Olympic Park bomber, whose crime the government and the press tried to lay at Richard Jewell's feet).
* It isn't mentioned in the linked story, but Rudolph was eventually caught by a rookie cop in Murphy, North Carolina.
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He explained that he’d been suspicious because the FBI had sent hundreds agents to that area to capture Eric Rudolph. The FBI arrived full of bluster, promising to speedily take down Rudolph. Dennis said many of his neighbors came to despise the FBI because they were heavy-handed and condescending. He said they showed up at a motel and decided to take it over; agents went around banging on doors and threw every guest out on the spot. Dennis had heard that some restaurants refused to serve FBI agents — insisting that they leave their guns outside, knowing they couldn’t do that.
A decidedly unprofessional response by the FBI. They'd just been handed their a$$ in the national limelight, and they decided to go full Sturmabteilung on the local populace. No wonder Eric Rudolph was a local hero.
And the FBI has only gotten worse since then. I vote for shutting it down.
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