Look, I know we all want to argue about Bill O'Reilly but please consider, at least a little, thinking about what I'm presenting here. There is something very odd taking place down Washington DC and I think it merits more of our attention than idiotic talk show hosts. I know it's easier to bash O'Reilly than to have to think about this, hell I don't even want to think about this, but I don't want to be the only one thinking about this either.
Please remember a couple things as you read this story. The last top counter terrorism guy to leave the FBI did so near the end of August 2001. His name was John O'Neill and the job he took when he left was head of security at the World Trade Center in New York. He died in the 9/11 attack. Also, don't you think three months is aweful fast to suffer burnout? That's the claim as to why this guy is leaving. The Bush administration is acting pretty funky right now...they just stabbed their own guy Rumsfeld in the back...they leaked the name of a CIA operative to the press. The FBI is supposedly investigating this leak. The top counter terrorism guy for the FBI leaves after 3 months on the job...this article below says many are leaving quickly. The Bush administration with this new deal with Ms. Rice seem to be admitting total failure with this sudden change of direction in Iraq. Iraq has been a huge problem for Bush and so is this war on terror and for some reason...when you would think he would least want to draw anymore attention to it Bush is on his way to Portsmouth NH to talk about the "WAR" when he could be doing dozens of other things right now. Something seems very wrong. Here's the article:
FBI's counterterrorism chief retiring
WASHINGTON -- The FBI's top counterterrorism official announced his retirement yesterday after three months on the job, marking the latest in a wave of departures from the senior ranks of the FBI since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
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Larry Mefford, a 24-year FBI veteran who became executive assistant director for counterterrorism and counterintelligence in July, will leave at the end of the month to take a top security job for a large casino firm in Las Vegas, FBI officials said.
Mefford is the third person in the past 18 months to hold that position, which FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III created to oversee terrorism and intelligence investigations. All the senior posts at the FBI have turned over at least once since the Sept. 11 attacks.
The steady stream of departures has left the bureau "extremely thin in the experience department," one FBI official acknowledged yesterday. The bureau has struggled to hold on to personnel amid grueling hours, intensive congressional scrutiny, and a dramatic effort to remake the FBI into an agency focused on preventing terrorism.
"These are just high-burnout jobs," said Robert Blitzer, a former FBI counterterrorism official who has worked with Mefford and others who have left in recent months.
One FBI official said that Mefford, 53, left in part because of family ties in Nevada and because of the lucrative offer to be a top security official at the company controlled by casino magnate Steve Wynn. Mefford declined to comment through the FBI press office. Mefford joined the FBI in 1979 and worked at field offices in Sacramento, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, San Diego, and San Francisco before coming to FBI headquarters to work on issues involving weapons of mass destruction and to oversee establishment of a new cybercrime division.
