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Thursday, October 30, 2008
Amanda Carpenter :: Townhall.com Columnist
The FBI's Hollywood Office
by Amanda Carpenter
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The press office at the Federal Bureau of Investigations isn’t as serious as you might think. 11 employees in FBI’s public affairs unit are on a mission to coordinate with Hollywood filmmakers to ensure accurate portrayal of their agency’s activities.

Republican Sen. Tom Coburn (Okla.) is appalled. He released a report “Justice Denied: Waste & Management at the Department of Justice” detailing the millions of dollars mismanaged at DOJ, including the valuable staff resources being made available to the entertainment industry at the taxpayers’ expense.

The unit, housed in the Federal Bureau of Investigation, exists to “create an accurate portrayal of the Bureau.” It was recently directly involved with “The Kingdom” featuring Jamie Foxx and Jennifer Garner and a film depicting the assassination of U.S president called “Shooter” starring Mark Wahlberg and Dannie Glover.

“Despite the multimillion dollar budgets of most Hollywood films, the FBI is not compensated by the industry for using taxpayer-funded staff resources to assist with these movies and TV shows,” the report noted.

The Kingdom’s production budget was $72.5 million and grossed more than $121 million.

FBI officials have also been involved in the television programs “Without a Trace,” “CSI,” “Numb3rs” and “The Closer.”

“Clearly these types of movies and shows, which focus on plots to kill the president and promote their shows by glorifying violence, including numerous violent crime scenes, and refer flippantly to criminal penalties for those who do break the law, do little to promote the mission of justice, law enforcement or combating crime,” Coburn’s report complained. “Yet the FBI staff continue to assist producers with such efforts.”

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About The Author
Amanda Carpenter is the author of “The Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy's Dossier on Hillary Clinton,” published in October 2006.
 
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Pat
The real agents who try to do what you are talking about have their hands tied by the liberal nutjob politically correct arab sympathizing DOJ lawyers. You would think they are on osama bin ladens payroll.

Wrong Mission
I would seem to me that the FBI's resources would be better dispursed by putting those 11 agents to work where they're really needed. The concern should not be how Hollywood portrays the Bureau in its often rancid productions. It should be holding those same filmmakers responsible for the crimes they often commit against public decency (under the Federal Code) and get away with simply because they are "Hollywood".

In a day where internet depravity with children (an FBI responsibility) is out of control, those needs must be addressed. Where Hollywood has followed suit, they need to be likewise prosecuted. Because of the overwhelming challenge of online kiddie porn, Hollywood has, once again, be given a pass for its "lesser" failings along the same lines. They call it "triage". Those 11 agents, located right in the heart of Offender Territory, should stop worrying about how those offenders deal with the Bureau and get the Bureau to dealing with the offenders as they deserve. For the kids' sake, if nothing else.
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