When I was a young lieutenant we got a new battalion sergeant major who made a lasting impression on me and my peers and taught the whole battalion a valuable lesson in the power of words. In army parlance at the time, and I would assume so even now, soldiers were generically referred to as "bodies," i.e., "First sergeant needs two bodies from each platoon for a grass cutting detail."
Our battalion sergeant major did everything in his power and influence to purge that usage, arguing that soldiers earned the right to be called soldiers, and leaders should be proud to lead soldiers, not mere bodies. He would say that if somebody wanted to work with bodies they should have gone to mortician school. Of course he was right, and powerfully so, and as he changed the language of the battalion, he changed attitudes.
So when I read the above passage in the article, I read it in that context. The SS shouldn't have been telling local police and HSI where they needed, "bodies," as that's what they got. They should have been telling them where they needed officers and security professionals.
At USMCRD - San Diego, we started out as scuzzy civilians and evolved into maggots.