THE FBI may not have found the DC sniper, but it’s hell on whistleblowers according to this article in the Washington Times:

The FBI has targeted for disciplinary action and possible service termination an agent who accused other agents at the World Trade Center of stealing a Tiffany globe paperweight from ground zero as a “memento,” a Senate Judiciary Committee member said yesterday.

“This looks like retaliation against a whistleblower who followed her conscience and exposed wrongdoing, even though it embarrassed the FBI,” said Sen. Charles E. Grassley, Iowa Republican. “If there are plans to fire her, the FBI is making a big mistake. I want the people behind this retaliation held accountable.”

It is, of course, possible that she’s both a whistleblower and a nitwit who deserves to be fired. After all, with the FBI currently in the midst of an extensive post-9/11 housecleaning that has resulted in the firing of so many people for incompetence, sheer chance would . . . Oh, well. Looks like retaliation to me, too.

UPDATE: Reader Dave Roberts writes:

Whistleblowers, stonewalling, lying to Congress, incompetence, deeply embedded culture of refusing to share with local law enforcement. What’s the national security downside to closing the FBI and starting over?

That’s what I keep wondering, too.