YOUR FEDERAL TAX DOLLARS AT WORK -- A BRIEF FOLLOW-UP

A couple weeks ago, I posted about the ongoing story of the FBI's search for the remains of union boss, Jimmy Hoffa, dead for 31 years. Well, seems that after a two weeks of this nonsense, the FBI stopped searching.

And what did they find, after this massive effort, which you may recall involved cadaver dogs, demolitions experts, even anthropologists? What exciting & important evidence turned up to help them "solve" a crime no one cares about?

Nothing. Absolutely nothing.

Michigan GOP Congressman, Joe Knollenberg, said it was time to set some spending limits on the search for Hoffa's remains. "The FBI might be better off establishing a budget and some kind of timeline," he offered. Gee, ya think so, Mr. Congressman?

Continuing, Knollenberg asked, "Because what new information do they have now, 31 years later?"

If I can throw my own question into the mix, I'd like to ask how the hell it took him 31 years to figure this out? But he's a Beltway Boy. One step at a time, I guess. Let's put his memo in the "Now You Think of This?" File, and move on.

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Finally, before anyone calls the Kliche Kops on me for saying "This FBI search led to untold costs . . . ," please be aware that, and I quote none other than A.P. here, "The FBI hasn't revealed the cost of the search."

No one wanted this search, and . . . it turned up absolutely nothing, but the FBI just doesn't feel the need to tell its employers (that would be us) what it cost.

Try that one on your boss some time.

In fact, the FBI defended its efforts, explaining in a statement last week that, "The expenditure of funds has always been necessary in each and every case the FBI works, and this one is no exception."

Hmmmm. Federal Government "expenditure of funds" deemed "necessary in each and every case." And whattaya know? Nothing came of the spending.