Very interesting personal anecdotes. Maybe the FBI just needs to be dismantled. It has so many failures, black marks and worse. Any good guys/gals can be moved to positions in the DoJ.
I fear that sort of massive reorganization would have to pass congress with a 60 vote result it’s never likely to get. What I’m relying on is Trump’s demand that dept heads clean out the house he gives them, or he cleans them out.
The second major problem is civil service protection. That, again, would take a vote in Congress we won’t get. I really wish they wouldn’t use HR as a place to put bad people. It has such great potential for misuse. And janitorial staff! They could read thrown out confidential memos! Maybe the New York City room for teachers who aren’t allowed in the classroom but can’t be fired.
littleJ, On June 21st, Mick Mulvaney gave us a good head start at massive overhaul needed in government. I’m sure this is just the start and they will get around to the FBI, NSA, etc.
The Trump administration on Thursday released a blueprint for a massive overhaul of the federal bureaucracy, one that if implemented would touch virtually every agency and the way all Americans receive government services.
“This effort, along with the recent executive orders on federal unions, are the biggest pieces so far of our plan to drain the swamp,” said Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney in a statement. “The federal government is bloated, opaque, bureaucratic and inefficient.”
Called “Delivering Government Solutions in the 21st Century,” the proposal contains many far-reaching recommendations, including:
Privatizing the Postal Service.
Merging the Education and Labor departments.
Reorganizing safety-net programs into a Department of Health and Public Welfare.
Creating a governmentwide public-private partnership office to improve services to citizens, and stewardship of public resources.
Relocating more staff and offices outside the National Capital Region.
Dramatically shrinking the Office of Personnel Management.
Revamping the Army Corps of Engineers.
The plan, led by Mulvaney and based on the agency reorganization proposals he assigned governmentwide in April 2017, is also believed to be influenced by long-standing thinking among conservatives that welfare programs should be funded and managed together.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Government-Reform-and-Reorg-Plan.pdf