The FBI just might be a giant bucket of suck when it comes to finding Osama bin Laden, but it looks like they know what they’re doing when it comes to catching pervs that video women through the peephole of their hotel room door.  The FBI made an arrest last night in connection to the videos that had been posted online of ESPN sideline reporter Erin Andrews walking around her hotel room while completely naked.

From CNN:

Authorities arrested 48-year-old Michael David Barrett at Chicago O’Hare International Airport on Friday.  Barrett faces a charge of interstate stalking, the FBI said.

Barrett is accused of taping Andrews while she was nude in two hotel rooms. He then made eight videos that he posted on the Internet, the FBI said.

Barrett allegedly filmed seven of the eight videos at a hotel room in Nashville, Tennessee, in September 2008. FBI agents said they found evidence that a peephole to the door of Andrews’ hotel room had been altered.

Good for the FBI and good for Erin Andrews.  I’ll admit that that there was a part of me that thought this whole thing was staged by Andrews so that she could get some publicity. The whole thing seemed too weird to be true when I first heard about it. I never looked at any of the videos, but I did read quite a bit about it on the Internet.

So how did the FBI nab Barrett?

The FBI learned that Barrett checked into the same hotel at that time and asked for a room adjacent to Andrews using his home address to register for the room.

Well now, that’s certainly nice to know that when a quasi-celebrity is staying in a hotel, stalkers need only request the room next door to get all close and personal. Not only should Barrett be punished to the fullest extent of the law, the person working at the Nashville hotel should be charged as his accomplice.  Without them, the videos would never have been made.