Has the FBI become like the great OZ.

HAS THE FBI EVER PROSECUTED ANYONE FOR RANSOMWARE

OR ARE POLITICAL INVESTIGATIONS THE PRIORITY?

The latest ransomware attack on a strategic pipeline has brought into focus this ongoing extortion by unknown hackers. Of course the usual response is the Russians did it. The Russians might as well have done it since they have been used as a foil by the FBI and others in intelligence for years now. Even when the FBI and others have been the authors of much of this disinformation. The so called Russia/Trump collusion has been proved to have been known a hoax by the FBI before they even started their three year witch hunt. 

As for ransomware, I personally had one of those attacks a few years ago, and the culperts would have settled for $189.00 paid by credit card. I didn't pay, but it caused a lot of wasted time. It has been reported that many of these attacks have been leveled at local and state government and other institutions. How are they asked to pay? Are we to believe that the FBI is unable to track and find the money? What is really going on here?

It is known that eastern europe is well endowed with sophisticated hackers. My experience was from an asian country. I actually had a conversation via telephone with someone. The hacking is possible but the transfer of money should be able to be traced, if they really want to. It would be in the best interest of all countries to cooperate in stopping this.

This would have applied particularly with Russia and Ukraine. Russia has cooperated with us on terrorism, even when the FBI  refused to heed their warnings about the Boston bombing brothers. It may now be possible that Russia will just let us figure it out on our own, since out intelligence community has been willing to blame them everytime that they are unable or unwilling to identify the perpetrators.

Of course, we must understand that the FBI is very busy these days, having to send expeditions to Alaska in search of Nancy Pelosi's laptop, raiding Rudy Giuliani's office for material that Mr. Giuliani's offered them freely. Maybe we need a new organization to investigate crime and change the name of the FBI to the Office of Political Investigation, the OPI.  Why does that sound so much like something from a totalitarian socialist country?