You and me both.
Posted on 01/05/2009 3:37:31 PM PST by An Old Man
Since the Sept 11, 2001, attacks, the FBI has been criticized for not having enough employees fluent in foreign languages and for not moving fast enough to upgrade its computer system.
FBI Assistant Director John Raucci of the Human Resources division said the federal law enforcement agency is seeking to bring more people on board with skills in critical areas, especially language fluency and computer science.
"We're also looking for professionals in a wide variety of fields who have a deep desire to help protect our nation from terrorists, spies, and others who wish us harm," Raucci said.
He said the FBI, which has been investigating corporate wrongdoing in connection with the current financial crisis, also needs finance and accounting experts, along with those skilled in physical surveillance and various other employees.
The hiring initiative for FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C., and for its field offices would replace departed staff and add some employees, officials said. (Reporting by James Vicini, Editing by Jackie Frank)
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
I suspect we'll see a lot of hiring of folks fluent in Ebonics.
Yep, the Clintonistas have to get back to killing people who go to churches the libs don’t approve of. That’s a big job ahead of them and they need to get crackin’!
I wonder if they would hire suitably-qualified foreigners?
Have you axed anyone about that?
Oh lovely, now the govt. will be full of more questionable people.
Time to move away from the big cities.... back to the rural way of life.
You and me both.
“Calling Officer Larry, Officer Moe, Officer Curly....”
Wish I were a bit younger. As a Patriot, I can think of nothing more I had rather do that work for one of these agencies.
Well, a couple of years back they hired a guy I knew who was an experienced Solaris SA.
They put him to work on stock frauds.
While I realize that a new FBI agent should get exposure to a wide variety of field work, it seems like they could be making better use of the people they have.
I have absolutely NO confidence in the F.B.I.
Crooked? You bet.
As far as Zalmai Azmi was concerned, the FBI's technological revolution was only weeks away.
It was late 2003, and a contractor, Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC), had spent months writing 730,000 lines of computer code for the Virtual Case File (VCF), a networked system for tracking criminal cases that was designed to replace the bureau's antiquated paper files and, finally, shove J. Edgar Hoover's FBI into the 21st century.
It appeared to work beautifully. Until Azmi, now the FBI's technology chief, asked about the error rate.
Software problem reports, or SPRs, numbered in the hundreds, Azmi recalled in an interview. The problems were multiplying as engineers continued to run tests. Scores of basic functions had yet to be analyzed.
"A month before delivery, you don't have SPRs," Azmi said. "You're making things pretty. . . . You're changing colors."
Within a few days, Azmi said, he warned FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III that the $170 million system was in serious trouble. A year later, it was dead. The nation's premier law enforcement and counterterrorism agency, burdened with one of the government's most archaic computer systems, would have to start from scratch.
The collapse of the attempt to remake the FBI's filing system stemmed from failures of almost every kind, including poor conception and muddled execution of the steps needed to make the system work, according to outside reviews and interviews with people involved in the project.
But the problems were not the FBI's alone. Because of an open-ended contract with few safeguards, SAIC reaped more than $100 million as the project became bigger and more complicated, even though its software never worked properly. The company continued to meet the bureau's requests, accepting payments despite clear signs that the FBI's approach to the project was badly flawed, according to people who were involved in the project or later reviewed it for the government.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/17/AR2006081701485_pf.html
What are the odds of FBI agents having to meet political correctness standards?
Maybe FBI senior personnel can be freed up to finally! bring these Weather Underground pukes to justice! -- even if some are now "esteemed" members of academe and if reports are true, the two of them who are most spoken of as the murderers, are friends of the new president. To wit, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Ayers.
Get started ASAP lest their friend's DoJ just might be ordered to let Weather Underground murderers continue to flaunt their privileged status.
Watch for President Obama to fire the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California even before he fires the U.S. Attorney in Chicago. IMO.
Not
You are a generation too late. The FBI was totally ruined by its politicization under Clinton. It is now a parody if its former self. That's why this announcement is a sick joke.
Patriotic? Join the Marines.
Yes they no longer have Lon Horiuchi around to shoot women and children.
Makes the 5-figure sum they stole from me seem like peanuts.
I this the 600,000 new federal hires that Obama plans?
As would I. Actually, I have always believed that ‘mom’ skillz are discounted...yet the life of experience of having raised several teens (with a couple more to go) make a mom (like me) a wealth of knowledge on how to expose excuses; half truths and lies. Yes. Let me (or any mom in Keds and Lee jeans) interrogate someone...they won’t know what hit them.
Funny how these @$$holes can practice age discrimination openly with no consequences, isn't it?
Is this part of obamas 600,000 new gov employees scheme?
I’d rather have Freepers in there than anyone else.
The CIA is running nonstop hiring commercials here in Norfolk, VA.
Seems the US AG of N.Cali knows she is on the chopping block.
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/05/mary-beth-buchanan-job/
“I’d rather have Freepers in there than anyone else.”
Once you went through the “screening” process that seems to have eluded our president, you would be lucky if you didn’t wind up in jail.
Don’t get me started on this one...
I applied for the FBI and CIA after 9-11, to no avail. I speak 4 foreign languages, have many years’ overseas experience, a Masters in IT, a black belt in Kempo, and a security clearance. They didn’t want to hear from me. I suspect that I didn’t fit into the affirmative action niche (I’m a WASP). Now I’m too “old” to be an FBI agent and I would have to take a huge pay cut to do it, as well as move back to the DC area. No thanks! Same thing goes for the CIA, who can’t find “qualified” people. And forget the Dept of State (liberal country club). So, instead they hire questionable foreigners and then act suprised when they turn out to not have the US’s best interests in mind. The fact that the US Gov won’t invest in people like me who have the capacity and skills, in order to save a few bucks, short-term. Talk about idiotic and shortsighted. Geez...
The N. Cal. U.S. Attorney took over the investigation in 2003, I believe. SF police had re-opened the investigation in 1999.
In 2003 SF handed the investigation over to U.S. Attorney Kevin Ryan who established a task force.
Nothing has come from this. Why? I wonder.
Grand juries have investigated yet there appears to be nothing so far. Why? I wonder.
The Black Liberation Army murder of a policeman in Ingleside is also being investigated -- it seems that aging former members are willing to serve time in jail until the grand jury expires rather than testify.
At least that is something.
Who besides academe, MSM employees, the Rat Party (formerly the traditional, patriotic Democratic Party), and Corrupt County, Illinois is protecting Mr. and Mrs. Ayers? Why? I wonder.
There is a vast untapped resource here, and other places.
You’re better off in the private sector anyways. More money and less bullsh!t.
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