Welcome back Hoffa

Does the FBI really have nothing better to do than waste our money digging for Jimmy Hoffa's body on a farm in Michigan? Oh I don't know, maybe they could look for people that are actually alive and threatening crimes to people? Maybe they could get in on some phone tapping with the CIA.

The guy has been missing since I was a toddler. The FBI is saying they are acting on a tip they received a couple of years ago that was firmed up recently. If all of your information is saying that he is buried somewhere in Michigan, how about we leave it at that? If they got a tip that someone had seen him in a coffee shop in Michigan, that would be a tip worth spending some resources on.

And we are talking about a lot of resources. The FBI is saying they will be there a couple of weeks! And The Herald has this:

As many as 40 agents, some with spades and other digging equipment, were working yesterday at the picket-fenced property which lies about 35 miles from Detroit.

Is the intelligence community so desperate for good news these days that we need to have 40 agents devoted to digging up the body of a guy that hasn't been seen since the television show Welcome Back, Kotter had its debut?