Right?? Again??

 There's nothing better than being right about something, unless you are debating with your spouse in which case, it's best not to be right. But this one is about the FBI and not my beloved, so I am free to celebrate.

Early Friday morning I published "Rants, Raves and Ruminations" in this space. In it, I wrote this, " A news report about the FBI searching the killer's Houston home mentioned that the door to his home was half torn off and left open after the FBI had finished. Leaving the door open gives others the opportunity to come in and see what the FBI missed. This is sloppy law enforcement. Are we to believe that there is no way the FBI overlooked anything? If they come back later, the entire scene has been tainted. Of course, the FBI doesn't worry about legal principles."

What happened? The FBI and Harris County officials returned to the home on Friday to collect more evidence. They returned to a home where they had left the front door half torn off and open. They had failed to secure the site before leaving on Thursday. Neighbors reported that people had been seen inside the home recording videos after the FBI left on Thursday. But ignoring all of this, the FBI returned on Friday to "collect more evidence".

Fox 26 television news in Houston had this in a story:

"The Harris County Sheriff's Office bomb squad along with four unmarked SUVs returned to the address with large evidence collection trucks to gather items and evidence, sources reported. Authorities are returning a day after Jabbar's home was left open and people were seen videoing inside the home and roaming around."

Is this how the nation's "premier law enforcement agency" works? The only good news is that the perpetrator is dead and won't have an attorney to challenge the FBI's results. Anything that comes out of this investigation is now subject to challenge. They left the crime scene open to people who just wanted to look around. Does it get any dumber than this?

Even worse, they brought the Harris County Bomb Squad with them on Friday. So, the FBI left open an investigative scene where they thought there might be a bomb or at the least, bomb making materials. This might belong on an old blog post called "Stupid Trooper Tricks".

In New Orleans, they left dead bodies in the street for several hours while they did an investigation of the murders. But in Houston, they couldn't board up a door or leave a policeman there to watch the mass murderer's house until they returned. What kind of sense does this make? 

This is the same FBI that has spent millions of man-hours pursuing people who committed a misdemeanor by walking through the Capitol on January 6, but didn't have the manpower to post a guard at an actual crime scene. Maybe they could have pulled someone off of a school board meeting or a Latin Mass at a Catholic church to cover the murderer's house? 

If the FBI could send a SWAT team to arrest a guy who prayed outside of an abortion clinic, surely, they could have posted a guard at the home of someone who killed fourteen people and injured more than thirty others. The vocabulary quiz to become an FBI agent should include the word "priorities".

At the end of the day, the nation's "premier" law enforcement agency failed to secure a site involved with one of the deadliest crimes in the country. This whole incident is just another reason that demonstrates that it is time to shut down the FBI and start over again.