<story><title>FBI is hiding details about a raid on Americans’ safe deposit boxes</title><url>https://reason.com/2022/07/26/what-is-the-fbi-hiding-about-its-raid-on-innocent-americans-safe-deposit-boxes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dogman144</author><text>After reading a long form interview with a FBI Whistleblower out of their Minneapolis counter-terror office (will link if I find it), working in another part of the govt myself in a previous life, and having some exposure to FBI tech recruiting and related programs, I am convinced large parts of the FBI are horribly inept at providing their core competencies in a changing world.&lt;p&gt;They display the dangerous balance of huge scale and access with an inability to hire well outside of key roles (legal for people trending DoJ, special agents in flagpole jobs, etc).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dicknuckle</author><text>I actually have my own video evidence of how inept they are. At a previous job they raided our office and when they told me to turn off the building&amp;#x27;s surveillance cameras, I started recording with my phone. They didn&amp;#x27;t understand what VMware ESXi was and kept trying to take an image of the drives to no avail. They had our backup appliance with a years worth of snapshots but that wasn&amp;#x27;t enough. They actually already had snapshots from the cloud provider before the raid but INSISTED the physical server must be imaged or taken. Finally I made a deal with them to take half of our RAID10 and not take the whole server.</text></comment>
<story><title>FBI is hiding details about a raid on Americans’ safe deposit boxes</title><url>https://reason.com/2022/07/26/what-is-the-fbi-hiding-about-its-raid-on-innocent-americans-safe-deposit-boxes/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dogman144</author><text>After reading a long form interview with a FBI Whistleblower out of their Minneapolis counter-terror office (will link if I find it), working in another part of the govt myself in a previous life, and having some exposure to FBI tech recruiting and related programs, I am convinced large parts of the FBI are horribly inept at providing their core competencies in a changing world.&lt;p&gt;They display the dangerous balance of huge scale and access with an inability to hire well outside of key roles (legal for people trending DoJ, special agents in flagpole jobs, etc).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mox1</author><text>Since you are in govt, you surely know the DoJ lawyers and district attorneys approved every step of this.&lt;p&gt;So it’s not like a random FBI agent or even office decided to do this, it was assuredly brought high up into the DoJ and approved.&lt;p&gt;Let’s not forget that federal or local judges then approved the warrants.&lt;p&gt;So it’s more accurate to say the federal persecution machine did this, not just the FBI.</text></comment>