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12 Jul 2008, 09:37, 1st Edition

The writer who talked about agencies like ours being affected by economic
recessions is exactly right. Not only did we lose very good applicants during
economic hiring freezes, during the last Bush recession in '91/'92 we lost most
of our corporate memory due to forced resignations in the immediate years
following Bush's ouster as we fought through economic recovery.

During the first Bush recession every agency was encouraged to get rid of its
highest paid senior people and replace them with kids who were making half the
pay of their predecessors. This was a very bad situation because, if some will
recall, this policy was continually pushed by the minority Republicans in
Congress (led by former Rep. Jack Kemp who was leading the Republican's "Shadow
Government" against Bill Clinton) who kept demanding and pushing that Clinton
"reduce the size of the federal government". We, and other agencies like FBI
lost hundreds of highly experienced agents and analysts... that resulted in the
wave of terrorist attacks and 9/11.

Because hundreds of superb people were off the payroll and replaced by ambitious
kids who thought they knew everything there was to know about LE and intell, but
didn't know squat, we were subject to countless problems. Take Coleen Rowley at
FBI, for example. This was a case of a 12-year old who thought she was the best
thing since sliced bread. Yes, she was correct in suspecting Moussaui had
ulterior motives, but she was totally unskilled in how to negotiate the FBI
system in order to effectuate a successful conclusion to her goal. It takes
20-30 years to fully know your agency's in's and out's. When Rowley's memo was
passed upstairs through the Bureau every manager who read it asked: "Who the
Hell is this 12-year-old Rowley kid who wrote this???". Nobody knew who Rowley
was because she was a nobody... and bureaucrats in the Bureau don't trust people
who are nobody's. But Rowley kept grading up in the Bureau only because older
and more experienced people -- who's names WERE trusted -- had been forced to
quit due to budget cuts that made it more economical to replace higher paid
people for nobody's like Rowley who was paid far less.

By the time 9/11 came around the hundreds upon hundreds of FBI, CIA, DIA -- and
even DEA -- agents who were experienced enough to not only discover the
conspirators (because cross investigations always turn up suspicious
characters), but knew enough about how their agency worked to get the perps
arrested, if not permanently neutralized were gone... history.

We've also witnessed the same thing happen in the military. When Bush became
president he set his first mission to fire any senior person who disagreed with
him, and promote younger officers who agreed to anything he said. And because
military salaries are based on time-in-grade, a three-star newly promoted earned
a lot less money than a three-star with five years in-grade. DOD saved a lot of
money with the Bush firings but, consequently, unqualified people got more stars
on their shoulder long before they were fully ready to advise a president, much
less command a battle unit. Bush's newly promoted advisers didn't and couldn't
advise... all they could and did do was nod their heads... and as a result we
had incompetents and bunglers in charge of war zones and terrible things
happened that never, never would have happened with trained and experienced
people in charge.

The Bush recessions have devastated our agencies and set our national security
back many years. And it will take a long time to recover because it takes a long
time to produce a fully competent and experienced manager or agent who knows how
to get things done and make things happen in their agencies.

Anyone can walk into any DEA office these days and see, in an instant, why DEA
has failed to function as it used to... and why DEA is now a stat-referral
agency that now specializes in drug ops that Explorer Scouts could work. DEA can
no longer penetrate and take down any major drug operation... but DEA can mount
a semi-effective raid on a residence occupied by female, child or drug-demented
perps... as evidenced by the recent TV show broadcast on Spike TV that got the
DEA Administrator's highest blessing and support. What a joke!!!

So if you are someone who gets frustrated because the managers, tools, money and
resources don't exist to get the main job done, blame your vote on a Bush who
believes in working on the cheap and funneling billions to their corporate pals.
And also blame the toady Democrats who gave the Bush's the votes because the
Republicans didn't have enough votes to ruin everything themselves.

As I said, we're looking at another 10-15 years, at least, before we fully
recover from the two Bush presidencies. But, alas, by that time the same morons
who voted for Daddy and Junior will stupidly march to their polling place to
vote for Jeb eight years from now... and we'll lose another generation due to
Bush Family stupidity and arrogance... and we can only hope that all of the
massive troop-carrying subs the Chinese are building will be sunk by a Tsunami
before they reach our shores.

God help us... because the Bush Family and the Bushies won't...

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