By chance I ran into an acquaintance yesterday who is retired USSS. I asked what the feelings around the retired agent association was about current events. He said they just met for lunch and they are all beside themselves with anger over what has happened to their agency. He told me the smart ones saw it coming in the last 80’s with the push to diversify their staff. Supervisors got rewarded for recruiting and punished if they didn’t. As a firearms instructor he saw weapons modified for weak hand strength people, to the point they would misfire. He retired in the mid 90’s but took a job in a related capacity where he still could see what was happening.
He told me, one of the problems is the pay is so good (dependent on where you live) that you don’t need to advance to better your situation. Consequently the people who should be leading, don’t try to advance because they don’t want to deal with the bureaucracy.
There's another perspective. Field agent folk wisdom held that all it took to advance was a willingness to relocate. The Bureau instituted a policy based on, I believe, IBM at the time--70s. 80s. Every upward move required relocation, usually to DC and then back out. No longer could people rise in the field. The result was that people advanced who had no regard for their families, relocating time after time. Also people who didn't really enjoy the nitty gritty of investigation, which at that time involved talking to people, rather than staring at a screen.
I have heard that from SA friends, the longest running joke in the Miami Office is the #1 most desirable trait for promotion is the willingness to transfer. One of my best friends there 20+ years on had a 6 year on SSA.
US casualties. It took about 20 years until they put up a monument to our 50 war dead from El Salvador at FT Bragg. My Colonel fought there in the 80's as a captain. He went to the ceremony.
Secret wars , secret dead. Yes... unexpected plane crashes, vehicle accidents overseas, heart attacks, unexpected accidents.... you just do not know. About 4-8 months ago there was a news report that the US was repatriating newly found war dead from WW2. They flew the coffins, not into Dover, but into Offutt AFB near Omaha. No follow up report was available. Sounded shaky, and you just do not know........
Looking at the Venn diagram I wonder about the coordination involving the reduction of the US strategic oil reserve while potentially blocking the straits of Hormuz. Not to mention Europe.
Purposeful! Cloward-Piven in action. Overwhelm the system to create chaos that makes the transition to communism much easier. The evidence is all around us. The sheeple are too docile and uninformed to get what’s taking place.
The US is in complete meltdown mode. The rest of the world, even Macron!, are on tender hooks. The lunatics of Washington have us all where they want us.
Think how many people in DC would be deliriously happy if President Trump was prevented from winning the Presidency a second time. Then add to them all the people who would be deliriously happy that the reason for that could be pinned on Iran as a casus belli.
By chance I ran into an acquaintance yesterday who is retired USSS. I asked what the feelings around the retired agent association was about current events. He said they just met for lunch and they are all beside themselves with anger over what has happened to their agency. He told me the smart ones saw it coming in the last 80’s with the push to diversify their staff. Supervisors got rewarded for recruiting and punished if they didn’t. As a firearms instructor he saw weapons modified for weak hand strength people, to the point they would misfire. He retired in the mid 90’s but took a job in a related capacity where he still could see what was happening.
He told me, one of the problems is the pay is so good (dependent on where you live) that you don’t need to advance to better your situation. Consequently the people who should be leading, don’t try to advance because they don’t want to deal with the bureaucracy.
There's another perspective. Field agent folk wisdom held that all it took to advance was a willingness to relocate. The Bureau instituted a policy based on, I believe, IBM at the time--70s. 80s. Every upward move required relocation, usually to DC and then back out. No longer could people rise in the field. The result was that people advanced who had no regard for their families, relocating time after time. Also people who didn't really enjoy the nitty gritty of investigation, which at that time involved talking to people, rather than staring at a screen.
I have heard that from SA friends, the longest running joke in the Miami Office is the #1 most desirable trait for promotion is the willingness to transfer. One of my best friends there 20+ years on had a 6 year on SSA.
The Ven Diagram was spot on.
US casualties. It took about 20 years until they put up a monument to our 50 war dead from El Salvador at FT Bragg. My Colonel fought there in the 80's as a captain. He went to the ceremony.
Secret wars , secret dead. Yes... unexpected plane crashes, vehicle accidents overseas, heart attacks, unexpected accidents.... you just do not know. About 4-8 months ago there was a news report that the US was repatriating newly found war dead from WW2. They flew the coffins, not into Dover, but into Offutt AFB near Omaha. No follow up report was available. Sounded shaky, and you just do not know........
Looking at the Venn diagram I wonder about the coordination involving the reduction of the US strategic oil reserve while potentially blocking the straits of Hormuz. Not to mention Europe.
Hubris, ignorance or controlled demolition?
Purposeful! Cloward-Piven in action. Overwhelm the system to create chaos that makes the transition to communism much easier. The evidence is all around us. The sheeple are too docile and uninformed to get what’s taking place.
Your Venn diagram was hilarious, very Kamala.
The US is in complete meltdown mode. The rest of the world, even Macron!, are on tender hooks. The lunatics of Washington have us all where they want us.
tenterhooks.
Think how many people in DC would be deliriously happy if President Trump was prevented from winning the Presidency a second time. Then add to them all the people who would be deliriously happy that the reason for that could be pinned on Iran as a casus belli.
Gosh, i am so surprised to learn the FBI is involved in the Iranian plot.
Yeh, that’s a real head slapper isn’t, what with the stellar job that Wray is doing as Director. Didn’t see that coming.