Mr. Priestap, a 20-year veteran of the bureau, worked on organized crime and drug cases in Chicago before rising through the national security ranks of the agency after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Today is 2018 and Billy P. started in 2001. That's a 20-year career and he zooms to the top. My guess is the father-in-law helped him advance. /cynic here
Who is his father in law and isn’t 2018-2001 17 years?
” That’s a 20-year career and he zooms to the top.”
I was in the Navy and the phrase that comes to my mind is “rats departing a sinking ship.”