The War On Terror Is MIA On The Big Screen

I recently attended “FBI 101,” a G-man seminar for Hollywood writers.

I do this kind of thing a lot: law-enforcement seminars, ride-alongs, citizen academies and the like. The writers get information and research contacts; the law dogs get a fighting chance at being portrayed realistically and maybe even sympathetically.

In my case, the federales were preaching to the converted. Any agency with a record of battling gangsters, communists and dirty pols can show up as good guys in my work anytime. And never mind just their record. Since 9/11 chastened by blunders the FBI has reinvented itself as a thin gray line against Islamic terrorism. Pulling 16-hour days, volunteering for repeated tours of duty at FBI outposts in the Middle East, constantly aware that their failures will be remembered when their successes are forgotten, the G-people are clearly heroes.

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