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To: Investor Clouseau who wrote (18808)	10/3/2002 8:49:49 AM
From: Tadsamillionaire	Respond to of 27666

FBI taps retired agents for 9/11 investigation By Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY WASHINGTON — Desperate to keep pace with the demands of its worldwide terrorism investigation, the FBI has begun hiring dozens of its retirees as special consultants. The bureau is negotiating employment contracts with 60 former agents, and put out a call last month for more candidates to work as intelligence analysts and evidence examiners. They will be used to plug holes in the FBI's counterintelligence and counterterrorism units, and to give recruiters more time to hire new, full-time analysts. FBI executives are focusing on former agents who have retired in the past five years largely because they retain clearance to handle sensitive national security information. Return of the former agents is part of a larger, post-Sept. 11 buildup throughout the FBI and other branches of federal law enforcement. By the end of the week, the FBI is expected to complete the hiring of 900 agents in a campaign that began four months after the Sept. 11 attacks. FBI Director Robert Mueller initiated the rehiring program so the bureau could "tap into a pool of experienced retired employees to temporarily fill positions at all levels," spokesman Mike Kortan said. The FBI made its first appeal to retirees in June, prompting responses from dozens of candidates during a 10-day application period, said Scott Erskine, executive director of the Society of Former Special Agents of the FBI. A second appeal is expected to draw even more interest for jobs that pay up to $86,000 per year. Under terms of the special hiring program, the former agents will not return with the same authority they wielded as special agents. They will not be permitted to carry weapons, and they will only support the investigation into the Sept. 11 attacks. As temporary employees, however, they would continue to receive their federal pension benefits. Erskine, whose association has 8,000 members, estimated that 200-500 former agents could be candidates for the contract jobs. "We have a certain expertise, and I think there is a huge interest in doing whatever we can to help." One former counterterrorism agent being considered for an analyst position said he would return to work for no pay because of his loyalty to the bureau, and out of concern that many current agents lack the experience needed. More than 40% of the FBI's agents — there are 11,400 worldwide — have five years or less experience on the job. The bureau continues to maintain a mandatory retirement age of 57. "I think any organization, especially this one, with a lot of youth, is in a negative posture," said the former agent, 58, who asked not to be identified because of the nature of his work. "I've always believed in the work. If I can provide some guidance to the younger agents, that would be some help, too." In the months after Sept. 11, the bureau's lack of analytical skills has been cited repeatedly as perhaps the FBI's greatest weakness. Mueller and a congressional committee investigating intelligence failures related to Sept. 11 have acknowledged that the FBI did not recognize the importance of several pieces of information relating to possible terrorist activity just before the attacks. "It only makes sense to grab some of these retirees with special skills and get them back on the job," said Nancy Savage, president of the FBI Agents Association, a group for active agents. "We've lost a lot of people from the seasoned agent ranks and from management level. This program is demonstrating some flexibility within the bureau we've never shown before." usatoday.com

To: Investor Clouseau who wrote (18808)	10/3/2002 10:44:38 AM
From: haqihana	Respond to of 27666

IC, Smart??? They are a bunch of uneducated, dirty, wife beating, miscreants that use their children as shields against gunfire, and eat with their left hands. You must live in a world which reality has not yet visited.