Why would they, when they can simply ask the head of the investigation? And he, in his graciousness, says the nice things about a fellow FBI employee that one would expect him to say (perhaps - probably - he even talked to Linda's supervisor himself).
Look, until you can determine precisely what sort of work she was doing as an NIPC cybercrimes analyst, I don't think you should substitute the eulogizing of her colleagues to draw sketchy inferences.