FBI's 100-Year Anniversary: From Capone To Bin Laden

In the 100 years since it was created on July 26, 1908, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation -- or FBI, as it is better known -- has grown from a few dozen detectives to a force of 30,000-plus.

It has been elevated to the stature of global legend, thanks in part to names like J. Edgar Hoover -- the man who led the FBI for nearly 50 years, including during World War II and the tumultuous civil rights movement -- and Elliot Ness, the agent who felled notorious gangster Al Capone.

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fbi: "come on out bin laden. federal agents! you're surrounded."
osama: "rats! it's the feds! you'll never take me alive g-men!"
fbi: "here's your ma, bin laden! she doesn't want to see you dead!"
ma: "please do what the man says, osama. come out. they won't hurt you!"
osama: "you dirty rats! you brought my mother here. you'll pay for this g-men!"
[headlights shining through the dust, rumbling and roaring, 20 or more riders arrive
on motorcycles.]
fbi: " it must be the reinforcements from the security agency in kandahar.
they all have beards and black turbans."
[set goes dark. cue blast and small arms effects.]
osama: "you ok, ma?"
.... trailer: "white heat 2008". g-man, ed harris; osama, jeremy irons; ma, kathleen turner.

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In the last 100 years the FBI has become FUBAR !!!

Wish they would have showed J Edgar in his "pretty things" !!!!

J Edgar, come out, come out wherever you are !!!