This is the problem when agencies are allowed to govern themselves, with no proper over site.

> Perhaps most egregious is the case of Magdy Mahmoud Mostafa el-Nashar, a former acquaintance of the perpetrators of the 2005 London transit-system bombings....The FBI had, in other words, created its own unnecessary delay, then used the story to claim it needed more power.

Rather than accept responsibility, they turned this embarrassing case into a win by spinning the story to show they did not have enough access.