The latest news of the madcap antics of the FBI leads me to recall a story told by G. Gordan Liddy.
FBI Director Hoover was adamant that information memos submitted to him could be no more than one page and have strict limits on the page margins. Trying to cram all you needed to say in such a format was not easy; ask anyone who has had to endure similar limitations in the US Military or mandated by the US Congress.
One day Hoover's staff seized on a way to give them more room for a memo. They reduced the page margins by just a few letters, figuring Hoover would never notice such a small change. But notice he did, and the memo came back with a note on it, "Watch the borders."
The FBI bureaucracy swung smartly into action when they got the instructions from the Director.
They sent every available FBI Agent to the borders with Canada and Mexico.