I have a close friend, a long time FBI guy, who was part of the million man search for Eric Robert Rudolph in 1998.  Rudolph made the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list for an abortion clinic bombing, but was suspected of  also being the Olympic Park bomber in Atlanta.  Hundreds of FBI agents, using dogs and helicopters, tried to find him in 1998 without success (Rudolph eluded capture until May, 2003).  FBI Boy was extremely frustrated, because, for the first time in his FBI experience, locals who were thought to have information about Rudolph were refusing to help. Why?  Because, like it or not,  lots of people  had trouble  feeling sorry for murdered abortionists, and saw the FBI as bad guys in this instance,  for trying to capture Robin Hood.  Lots of these same people were newly suspicious of the FBI anyway, after Ruby Ridge, WACO, and suspected cover-ups of the Oklahoma City bombing, and TWA 800 crash.  Public trust is easy to lose, and hard to regain.

The first indication I had that the CIA might be corrupted came during Porter Goss' CIA Director hearings.  We discovered that rogue elements within the Agency were working against President Bush (and I am certain that the  Wilson-Plane deal is an example).  I was hoping that Goss would handle this matter in a CIA way, and just have 20-30 of the sonofabitches drown in the Chesapeake Bay while sailing.  I guess he didn't, because they're still at it, working with the New York Times to undermine the war on terror.

All of which brings me to an astounding realization, one that I am not particularly happy about.  Me, Mr. Law and Order, Army veteran, and lover of everything that makes this country great, me ... If some guy came to my door and said, "I just blew up the DNC building, while every elected democrat was attending a conference, that was being covered by every member of the mainstream media, and I'm hungry ... ."  Me? ...  I think I might make him a BLT and give him gas money. It's hard to tell.

 HTF did this happen?  It doesn't matter, really, because it has.  The real question is, how do I go back?