Veteran agents opt out of FBI:
The FBI's storied workforce is being dismantled and reassembled as Director Robert S. Meoller III tries to overhaul the hidebound agency
According the LA times
but read in the Hartford Courant.
Agents like Michael Clark, who was part of the team that
helped send CT Governor John Rowland to prison, have quit, rather than be reassigned to the Washington DC office.
Turnover among agents in charge of FBI field offices is such that some fear those executives are losing stature among state local law enforcement officials they often rely on.
Currently as many as one-fifth of the 1500 top FBI jobs in Wasington are vacant -- including positions in anti-terrorism, intelligence-gathering and Internet crimes. which are among the FBI's top priorities.
Check out the entire story. Agents with 5 years of supervisory experience are being required to apply for positions in Washington.
And according to the article, about half don't want to go, and will retire or step down.
So if the CIA and the FBI can talk to each other, will there be anyone to listen?