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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]FBI is a joke...  Tell her to stay far away.  I speak from direct experience.  It's as old boy/rigid as it comes.  Not cracked up to be what as it appears in Hollywood..  Far from it.  She would do better focusing on one of the other govt agencies.[/quote]

Couldn't cut it hon?[/quote]

a PP here ... actually, it's the Famous But Incompetent types (FBI) who continually could not cut it in my professional world, which involved criminal investigations in a specialized area of law that often involved science, sometimes technically complex.

They frequently did not even know or understand the basic elements of the crime they might be investigating, to the chagrin and horror of others who were going to have to work with them.  I once watched a couple of earnest FBI types make a presentation to a high level group of 30+ US Attorneys and senior line prosecutors.  As I listened I realized that they did not even know the elements of the crime we were discussing and that their elaborate hypothetical "sting" operation was useless.

At the end of the presentation the others in the room looked at me (the senior person from the agency overseeing these statutes) and I had to politely tell them that this was an interesting idea but that, unfortunately, there was no prosecutable crime involved in their scenario.

Famous But Incompetent, indeed.
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Sadly, my FBI agent husband (who I thought would be offended) agreed with this, and a lot of other negative stuff on this thread. As the FBI wife, my biggest problems are with the transfer policies, which have taken me about 5 years to fully comprehend, and the institutionalized cronyism. [/quote]

PP here (who you quote) ... yes, it's not something that makes me happy or anything, we have a right to expect better for all the money we spend on the FBI (their budget for paper clips probably exceeds my agency's entire criminal enforcement budget) ... discouraging.[/quote]

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