[ravingnutter]

Most of these people unfortunately can't be fired, because they're members of the federal employee union.

I kept hearing conflicting statements on this, so I did a search. CIA employees cannot join a union...

Employees with direct national security duties, including the military, CIA and FBI, are barred from union membership.

USA Today Article

[jpl]

Thank you, I stand corrected on that. I'd bet that it's probably still very difficult to fire FBI and CIA employees though, barring some sort of criminal behavior or other serious malfeasance.