Headquarter Uproars

Rumblings on the 5th Floor of HQ:

• Patrol was a buzz today with stories of in fighting from the Supt's office. It seems that IAD personnel are none to happy about Masters giving an audience to a disgruntled IAD employee and then looking to IAD for answers to her complaints. Even though everybody if asked before hand would of told him not to take the meeting because she is crazy and disgruntled. But Masters have proved consistently that he is smarter than everyone and so the bad advice keeps coming. So with this latest scenerio, IAD as a whole is now disgruntled.
  
  So with this news, comes this tidbit - the Supt asked IAD to run a legit investigation on Wedster. So IAD complies and is seeking to seperate. Masters finds out at tells IAD to change their recommendation. IAD explains that the Supt doesn't have to agree but Masters insist because he doesn't want the Supt to be the bad guy. Only at CPD!!

Well, we're sure Masters doesn't want Brust being dragged through the meat grinder either - after all, he accepted the concert tickets. So much for "Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity." All oaths go out the window in Chicago it seems.

And then there's this:

• looks like Blinky tried to dump a certain Lt who she thinks is the leak. Blinky was told to drop it he's retiring soon.

We're assuming this is the boss quoted about Sgt. Haymaker's car being ready "to be put out to pasture." And "Blinky" is the other nickname for Aunt "the bartender" Bea. How very like the top brass to attempt to attack the leak rather than the actual problem. Of course, that's exactly what J-Fed did when he attempted to use the FBI Disciplinary process to fire Agent Robert Wright - remember this?

• A Chicago FBI agent who has complained to the media and Congress that the bureau bungled terrorism investigations had been targeted for firing by supervisors who vowed to "take him out," according to a memo written by a former high-ranking official in the FBI's disciplinary office.
  
  The FBI opened an internal investigation against Agent Robert G. Wright Jr. in 2003 just days after his appearance at a news conference and on a national television news program, according to the memo obtained by the Tribune.
  
  The top two agents in the FBI's disciplinary office at the time, Robert J. Jordan and J.P. "Jody" Weis, ordered an investigation into Wright for insubordination and had already made up their minds to have him fired, according to the memo.

And we get our own warnings via e-mail and unpublished comments:

• ...word is the SOUP is super pissed at the blog and swearing revenge. He doesn't like the blame being placed on the crappy pool vehicles and icy unsalted streets. Look out...

We're pretty sure that J-Fed has enough on his plate without conducting investigations regarding a blog he has called "insignificant" on a number of occasions. We mean, there's no possible way he would ever let an unauthorized and illegal First Amendment investigation into protected speech occur on his watch by an overzealous lieutenant in the Internal Affairs Division in the face of Consent Decrees, judicial findings and outright bans of "Red Squad" type activities. That would be ridiculous.

Wouldn't it Barb?