{"id":185021,"date":"2011-11-06T15:19:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-06T20:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/11\/06\/the-ghost-of-j-edgar-haunts-the-fbi\/"},"modified":"2011-11-06T15:19:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-06T20:19:00","slug":"the-ghost-of-j-edgar-haunts-the-fbi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/11\/06\/the-ghost-of-j-edgar-haunts-the-fbi\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ghost of J. Edgar Haunts the FBI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well what do you know.  The FBI&#8217;s counterterrosism training is so screwed up that they are literally <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/dangerroom\/2011\/11\/fbi-west-point-training\/\">calling in the US Army to fix it<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>To fix its troubled counterterrorism training, the FBI is calling in the cavalry.<\/p>\n<p>The Bureau has turned to the Army\u2019s Combating Terrorism Center at West Point to scour the FBI\u2019s training materials, after Danger Room revealed that Bureau specialists were teaching agents that \u201cmainstream\u201d Muslims were likely to be \u201cviolent\u201d and radical.\u201d The West Point request represents a frank admission from the FBI that it requires outside help to reform.<\/p>\n<p>The Combating Terrorism Center earns high praise from counterterrorism experts as a haven for rigorous, practical scholarship on terrorism and Islamic extremism. Its researchers consider themselves to be the opposite of analysts like William Gawthrop, the FBI intelligence analyst who compared Islam to the Death Star and Mohammed to a \u201ccult leader.\u201d The CTC experts\u2019 challenge, as they themselves see it, is to undo the work of Gawthrop and his allies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt CTC, there\u2019s an ethos of education,\u201d says Brian Fishman of the New America Foundation, a former research director at the Center. \u201cWhen you have that, you inherently recognize that you need to illustrate that, for example, the practice of Islam around the world isn\u2019t monolithic.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure that it will help much though, as bigots like William Gawthrop are still employed by, and still exert excessive influence, on the FBI.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s amazing just how much the FBI continues to be a product of the festering hate and bigotry that was Hoover&#8217;s fevered mind. <\/p>\n<p>As a first step, how about taking his name off that damn building?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well what do you know. The FBI&#8217;s counterterrosism training is so screwed up that they are literally calling in the US Army to fix it: To fix its troubled counterterrorism training, the FBI is calling in the cavalry. The Bureau has turned to the Army\u2019s Combating Terrorism Center at West Point to scour the FBI\u2019s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[967,1041,1021],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bigotry","category-law-enforcement-misconduct","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185021"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}