Report: FBI Turnover Hampers Cooperation

[Eugene]

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/politics/wire/sns-ap-fbi-turnover,1,2434590.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines

3:02 PM PDT, September 14, 2005

Report: FBI Turnover Hampers Cooperation
By MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON -- The FBI has experienced excessive turnover among senior
officials, hampering cooperation with state and local authorities since
the Sept. 11 attacks, a new report released Wednesday said.

The senior agents who run the 56 FBI field offices average just 15
months in their jobs before moving on to new assignments or leaving
the bureau altogether, according to a report by the congressionally
chartered National Academy of Public Administration. At FBI headquarters
in Washington, the average posting for high-ranking officials is 13
months, the report said.

The short tenures of Special Agents in Charge of the field offices,
or SACs in FBI parlance, make "it difficult for them to perform one
of their most important functions, developing effective relationships
with state and local officials," said former Attorney General Richard
Thornburgh, chairman of the panel that produced the report. It was
released at a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing on changes at
the FBI following the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.

Thornburgh told lawmakers at the hearing that he was "astonished to
see the short tenures of SACs."

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[VegasWolf]

1. Government agents making more money as WalMart greeters! nt

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2. :Let's hope they all took notes... n/t

[applegrove]

3. Yup. Bush has diminished all federal agencies.

[DeepModem Mom]

4. Some of the scariest have been his purges of Pentagon, CIA, State...

FBI. And, we know now, FEMA has been decimated, to use your word, by its Bush crony leadership.

[applegrove]

6. That has been a story. Is a story now. And will be stories in the future.

[0007]

5. How do ya think blackwater got all those fellows?

[applegrove]

7. They are elites too. They only fight the parts of the war they want to.

[0007]

8. And get paid five times what they were getting and less bullshit.

[applegrove]

9. I think elite branches of the military should be paid more. If you qualify

as an expert somehow - you should get to the top of governance. I'm sure Honere gets an okay wage.

Governments all over the world seek out visionary leaders & experts and put them in jobs where they do the most pubic good.

Why not the USA? Because anything that goes against the possibility of corporate wealth is now considered a "bad".


But you know what? The un-elite members of the military should be paid more too.