[expatpat]

I agree with most of your views on the Fibbies. However, I'm not sure you can lay most of it on Mueller. IMHO, the top leadership should fire all the management-level people, especially at HQ, and hire good local-LEO managers to reform the FBI.

[Man of the Right]

Reform is possible if you have something to reform, and the will. That's not the case with the FBI.

If you were creating a counter-intelligence agency from scratch, you'd want a lot of extremely driven, extremely bright, creative, entrepreneurial, eccentric people with useful skills -- Arab language, Muslim culture, spycraft, people skills, organizational skills, technical skills, and above all, sources in terrorist organizations and the societies that host them. There's none of that in the FBI. Not only is there nothing to build on, the people who are in the FBI are the last people on the planet you'd want in a functioning counter-intelligence agency. They're not cops, they're not investigators, they're not prosecutors, they're just time-serving bureaucrats with no useful skills, personal qualities, or contacts.

[Irish Eyes]

Good idea but can government employees be fired that easily?