why do we need this?
and so in the middle of a great depression you're looking for a budget increase to build up your department? but by my tally your department of investigation spends more taxpayer's dollars catching crooks than what the crooks you catch stole in the first place.
how many criminals you apprehended?
no. i mean you. how many?
no. how many have you arrested? personally.
with no field experience. for once hoover is silent.
and if the country required an expanded bureau, i question you are the person most fit to run it while.
while outlaws like dillinger, clyde barrow, the barkers, and nelson flourish unabated.