They was some salty old boys, anyway you cut it, eh Leanwolf?
My take on this and the FBI in general is that they hire ivory tower college folks who haven't a clue about who they're stalking. They then try to get super-scientific with computer printouts and suchlike, when they could just hire the people they so disdain in the first place and save a lot of time. Hiring people who know the quarry they are stalking and whose proficiency with weapons is inherent rather than solely by training, would go a longer ways toward eliminating future occurrences than would gadgetry and more college boys.
That's why such agencies as FBI, DEA, USMS, have local LEO's assigned to criminal taskforces within the the agencies operating areas. It's because the local LEO's know the people and the area better then the Fed's.
