This is an excellent piece. It is informative, well-researched, and clearly presented. It is to Salon's credit that the online magazine published it; as I am not a Salon subscriber, it's hard for me to know if this piece is typical of the quality of the journalism there. But it is noteworthy that the commercial media have not yet made a big enough story about this. Typical TV coverage is limited to the horserace-style issues, i.e. that the scandals may force Attorney General Gonzales and FBI Director Mueller to resign. In the case of the FBI, abuse existed under J.Edgar "Mary" Hoover, and the FBI's record in the JFK and Martin Luther King investigations was light years beyond disgraceful, the continued bleeding ulcer that is the effect of the Drug Wars on our inner cities points to an utter failure of both policy and implementation in law enforcement, and the FBI's contribution to the prison industrial complex, where big swindlers get the velvet glove treatment and poor prisoners get the iron fist, remains a cancer on democracy. The FBI's problems go well beyond the current scandal. The FBI's failures in 9-11-2001 alone were already enough to fill up a good investigation. Time for reform on a much larger scale.