Color me suprised.
FBI undercounts number of times armed citizens have thwarted active shooting incidents: report

https://www.foxnews.com/us/fbi-undercou ... nts-report

The top watchdog of American business is also home to Washington’s most active Wall Street investors.

The Federal Trade Commission in recent years has opened investigations into nearly every major industry. It has launched antitrust probes into technology companies, examined credit card firms and moved to restrict drug, energy and defense-company mergers.

At the same time, senior officials at the FTC disclosed more trades of stocks, bonds and funds, on average, than officials at any other major agency in a Wall Street Journal review of financial disclosures at 50 federal agencies from 2016 to 2021.

Randolph Tritell, the recently retired head of the FTC’s Office of International Affairs, reported more stock trades than any other FTC official in the period the Journal examined. The office coordinates with foreign counterparts to make sure rules, merger conditions and enforcement actions are applied consistently, and coordinates the sharing of evidence and other information on overlapping investigations.

Mr. Tritell reported large holdings in technology stocks. He owned Apple Inc. stock valued at between $100,001 and $250,000, Amazon shares worth $15,001 to $50,000, and $1,001 to $15,000 of Microsoft stock, according to his most recent financial-disclosure form. Since 2016, he has reported a total of more than three dozen trades in Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft and Oracle.

The FTC spokesman said Mr. Chappell “operates independently from the agency” and “has no knowledge of or involvement with FTC investigations or enforcement actions and in fact is strictly separated from any agency actions with respect to matters that come or could come before the Commission since he may be tasked with adjudicating these matters.”

In an interview, Mr. Chappell said that he didn’t work on the FTC’s investigation into Visa and Mastercard and that in his role, he is made aware of FTC investigations only once the agency files a lawsuit. “I don’t know who they are investigating and I don’t care,” Mr. Chappell said.

He said he adheres to agency rules on stock ownership and attends the FTC’s annual training sessions.

He said he didn’t know the FTC was investigating Mastercard or Visa until the Journal brought it to his attention. Said Mr. Chappell: “I can assure you that I don’t know anything about that.”

ATF, Enforcer of Gun Laws, Lost 'Thousands of Firearms, Firearm Parts' to Thieves
The agency should be abolished and its employees sent to seek jobs in the private sector.

https://reason.com/2022/10/31/atf-enfor ... o-thieves/

In January 2017, Reps. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., Barbara Lee, D-Calif., Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, Raúl Grijalva, D-Ariz., Maxine Waters, D-Calif., and Jim McGovern, D-Mass., all objected to electoral votes for Trump. Now nearly all of them have joined the chorus against those who objected to votes for Biden.