[coloradan]

This shortage is of their own making. A fairly recent article posted here on FR was about how a supervisor would delete the translations a new hire was producing, such that the translation branch appeared to be overworked, and could therefore apply for more funding to hire more people. The new hire blew the whistle and left, and the supervisor was found to have omitted "materially useful" elements of her translation from his summaries.

[coloradan]

The article is this one: Lost in Translation (an outrageous story of FBI sloth and featherbedding) And the whistleblower didn't leave voluntarily, but was fired (as we have come to expect from the FBI).