Another FBI blunder

What's going on with the FBI? One embarrassing blunder after another has knocked a lot of the shine from the federal law enforcement agency's star status and, more important, has weakened the public's and Congress' confidence that the bureau is well run. It was only weeks after the execution of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh was postponed after it was revealed that the FBI had failed to turn over thousands of pieces of evidence related to the case. The FBI became part of the talk of Birmingham during the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing trial of Thomas Blanton Jr. The FBI's failure to provide secretly recorded tapes to state prosecutors was cited for why Blanton wasn't tried earlier for the 1963 bombing. The deadly standoff with Branch Davidian cultists near Waco, Texas; the botched investigation of alleged spying by nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee; allegations of sloppy evidence handling in FBI labs; and the sensationalized probe of Richard Jewell in the Olympic bombing in Atlanta were mishandled to some degree by the FBI.