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...often is the case in these announcements, it turned out to be a lot less than advertised, unless you were a writer for Saturday Night Live. When the FBI raided the abandoned warehouse where the group hung out in Miami's impoverished Liberty City neighborhood, they found no weapons, no money and no evidence of ties to any terrorist group anywhere. Indeed, these would-be jihadis were so early in their planning for jihad that they hadn't yet set aside time to become Muslims. The group, according to a follow-up report from Reuters, "mixes Islam, Buddhism, Christianity, Freemasonry...
...turnover has hit some of the most vital positions in the bureau hierarchy. In five years, six different people have moved through the post of counterterrorism chief, overseeing what has been the FBI's core mission since 9/11. And June 2 was the last day for 29-year veteran Gary Bald, 52, who retired just 10 months after being tapped to start up the FBI's new National Security Branch. He's taking a security job with Royal Caribbean Cruises...
Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee have been debating whether the brain drain at the FBI poses a threat to national security. "The FBI cannot be a revolving door for senior managers," says Senator Chuck Grassley. "It needs stability in these important positions to fight in the war on terror...
Mueller seems to agree. When promoting agents to senior-executive levels, he "is trying to extract some promise as to how long they are willing to stay," says Michael Mason, who runs the administrative side of the FBI. Grassley suggested to TIME that "the FBI needs to appeal to the patriotic spirit of its senior managers." But beyond that, the bureau is offering few tangible perks to make working there more attractive. Nor will the jobs be getting easier--Mason says new recruits should expect to be rotated around the country and the world, even if it means uprooting their...
Mason, however, is optimistic that the new generation of agents will make the sacrifices necessary for the job. At the Washington field office, he notes, 65% of the new recruits last year had taken pay cuts from previous jobs to work at the FBI...