Once-secret documents obtained by The Associated Press show a disaster supply management company went unpunished for Sept. 11 thefts after the government discovered FBI agents and other government officials had stolen artifacts from New York's ground zero…That’s certainly a new one. Can’t prosecute the ghoulish thieves who stole artifacts of death from 9/11 sites, because some of them are members of the investigating agency—and that’s just a gosh darn conflict of interests. Oh, well.
The lead investigators for the FBI and the Federal Emergency Management Agency told AP that the plan to prosecute KEI for those thefts stopped as soon as it became clear in late summer 2002 that an FBI agent in Minnesota had stolen a crystal globe from ground zero.
That prompted a broader review that ultimately found 16 government employees, including a top FBI executive and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, had such artifacts from New York or the Pentagon.
“How could you secure an indictment?'' FEMA investigator Kirk Beauchamp asked. “It would be a conflict.''
Further, the two whistleblowers who first raised the issue eventually “lost their jobs, received death threats and were blackballed in the disaster relief industry.” So, if you’re keeping score:
Thieving bastards: 1
Whistleblowers: 0
American people: -1,893,482
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