by Jeff Davis

A Reuters article begins: “Wanted by the FBI: agents, language specialists, computer experts, intelligence analysts and finance experts. The FBI said on Monday it had launched one of the largest hiring blitzes in its 100-year history involving 2,100 professional staff vacancies and 850 special agents aimed at filling its most critical vacancies.”

Like trained torturers, for instance? That’s not a joke. We seem to forget that thanks to George W. Bush, torture is still legal. So far the torture has allegedly taken place in secret prisons overseas, but don’t rely on that remaining the case. The Democrats will soon be back in power. Perhaps, they’ll decide that IRS auditors need to torture a few people to increase the tax revenue.

The Reuters article goes on “The agency, which seeks to protect the United States from terrorist attack, fight crime and catch spies, among other duties, said it currently has more than 12,800 agents and about 18,400 other employees. Since the Sept 11, 2001, attacks, the FBI has been criticized for not having enough employees fluent in foreign languages and for not moving fast enough to upgrade its computer system.”

One of the propaganda leaflets dropped over Afghanistan before the invasion proclaimed in Pashtun: “Resistance Is Furry!” instead of “Resistance Is Futile.” Maybe if we didn’t allow immigrants from Arab nations, Iran and Pakistan into the US (and if we didn’t send spies and assassins into those nations or bomb them from time to time), then we wouldn’t need to worry about terrorism and we could literally save hundreds of billions of dollars “fighting a war on terror.”

The Reuters article continues “FBI Assistant Director John Raucci of the Human Resources division said the federal law enforcement agency is seeking to bring more people on board with skills in critical areas, especially language fluency and computer science. ‘We’re also looking for professionals in a wide variety of field” …the FBI …has been investigating corporate wrongdoing in connection with the current financial crisis,”

This is just what we need in the face of an economic crisis that’s going to put something on the order of forty million Americans out of work in the next year. More secret police!