EosJ,
I have to respect the sober introspection you bring to the discussion. I admit the perpetual state of affronted rage brought about in me by my experience with the FBI has not diminished one bit in the time since I received my "rejection" letter.

Still, I cannot help but view most of the barrel of apples as being corrupted. I would be much more heartened if I saw more resignations over principle by people working in the FBI. Principles like competence, attention to detail -- especially for a self-described investigative body! -- and efficiency.

These principles should not be too much to ask as part of the hiring process for any organization. But one would think they would be prerequisites for an organization tasked with fighting a War on Terror.

Respectfully,
AllegedLiar

Allegedlier

I can relate to your bad experiece with the FBI. I have serious reservations about branding all of them as bad.
But it only takes one bad apple with questionable ethics to taint the rest. You just happened to run into the ones that are  questionable. I do know few who work out of the Boston office and they are dam fine agents and investigators. But this is from personal experience.
Stereotyping serves no one or purpose. Best of luck in your job search.


Regards  ....

I feel for the agents and employees that are doing a great job, and led by  incompetant management

Really? I don't. Given my abortive recruiting experience with the agents and employees at the FBI, the vast majority are every bit as bad as the management.

With the exception of a few individuals at a certain field office I shall not name, I cannot think of a single FBI employee with whom I interacted who was not a blithering nincompoop.

At one point, they actually managed to somehow shuffle the records in my file with those of another applicant, thoroughly scrambling the process. I found this out because they called me up and launched into a set of background questions involving a supposed relative I had never heard of -- because it was the other applicant's relative ...

Oh, and then they called me two weeks after my polygraph "failure" to ask me if I was interested in another, different position than the one for which I had originally applied. I had to inform them that I had "failed" the poly since one hand of their prestigious organization had not already communicated this to the other hand.

I won't even get into the bait and switch conditional offer they made me ...

And we are seriously supposed to expect this organization to connect the dots and prevent terrorist attacks?! HAAAAAAHHHH!!!!

Remember, folks, your tax dollars support and perpetuate this buffoonery, and subsidize early retirements and cushy pensions for these deadbeat dolts that few of us will ever see.

My God, they are utterly pathetic.

George,

Interesting Read, and why am I not surprized. Peters Principle seems to be working way to well at the FBI. I feel for the agents and employees that are doing a great job, and led by  incompetant management, who prefer to keep there heads in the sand. 

Regards

On 18 January 2006, the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition issued the following press release on the repeated penetration of the FBI by foreign agents (and repeated cover-ups and retaliation against whistleblowers by FBI management):

http://www.nswbc.org/Press%20Releases/January06%20FBI%20%20Espionage%20Cases-Col...