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Query on interest on a long thread from an outsider about the largely unknown, but IMO completely idiotic manner of selecting FBI Management personnel. Quick intro, and responses will dictate whether I take the time to lay out my grievances as a 22 year AUSA and... still secret.
Tease -- sitting around a backyard pool at the house of a newer FBI agent, while still a relatively new prosecutor, I asked how a particular FBI supervisor in charge of a "Resident Office" -- one step below a Field Office -- managed to rise to that level of leadership given
That I had -- quite accurately -- called him a "moronic bonehead" for deciding to have a chat with a member of the press that led to a front-page news story "confirming" FBI interest in certain organized crime figures who did not know at that point they were "hot".
One of the more senior agents present at the backyard get together -- who had been a US Army Ranger for 10 years before joining the FBI -- said to me "Easy, he raised his hand."
Ok -- but what exactly did that mean?
Ok -- but what exactly did that mean?
His response shocked me--I'd been an AUSA for 4 years, and practicing law for 9 at that point. He explained that to be an FBI Supervisor, all that was needed was to volunteer to go to a "manager's track". Give up case work, and be a "supervisor" of other agents doing case work.
In his view--and agreed to unanimously by other agents present--this meant that some of the worst field agents ended up being the supervisors of most of the best agents. If you were bad at field agent work, you could nevertheless advance in the FBI by agreeing to be a supervisor.
That's all I have time for now -- but can expand on this later if there is interest, and I would invite responses from some of the former feds who follow me. Your first hand experiences would be of great interest.
