Maybe the FBI needs a man running around in a dress to be effective. Lately they’ve been off, either by design or by mishap.

The FBI had Hillary Clinton dead to rights for charges based on her felony violation of 18 U.S.C. § 793, transmitting or losing sensitive, secret information. FBI Director James Comey said she had been “extremely careless” but had not intended any harm. Intent is purposefully not an element of this particular crime so as to prosecute instances of extremely careless, negligent handling of classified material. That was a blatant case of selective (non) prosecution.

The feds sent Martha Stewart up the river for lying to their agents about issues tangential to their failing investigation into her investments. She too likely intended no harm. In fact, nothing in that witch-hunt remotely suggested any intent to cause anyone harm or that anyone was actually harmed. But, she lied. The feds and the cops can (do) lie to us all the time. That’s standard operating procedure. If we lie to them it’s a felony.

That is, unless you’re Omar Mateen. (Remember Mateen?) The FBI convinced Mateen to sign a statement admitting he had previously lied to agents. He wasn’t charged with lying. Nor was he charged with anything related to the FBI’s underlying investigation – terrorism. He simply was let go and the investigation concluded. “In the end, after a counter-terrorism investigation that stretched from May 2013 to March 2014, the agent and his supervisor concluded that Omar Mateen was not a threat and closed the case.”

Yuk! Yuk! Picture: Florin Florea/Freeimages.com.

Mateen later carried out an act of terrorism. He murdered 49 people at the Pulse Club in Orlando (name ring a bell now?). He might not have been able to do so had he received the same scrutiny and treatment as Mrs. Stewart.

Was that selective non-prosecution? Or was it incompetence? Something else?

The above-linked LA Times story revealed the FBI used multiple informants in an effort to nail Mateen or involve him patsy-style in a false flag operation. None of it worked. Case closed. People dead.

Two things jump out at me regarding all of this. First, do not ever talk to or give statements (not oral and certainly not written) to law enforcement. Doing so only gives them grounds to charge you with something should all else fail (unless you’re a terrorist). Second, if this is how the FBI operates, maybe it’s time to get rid of the agency.

Enough of the selective incompetency and the incompetent selection.