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Wednesday, 04. September 2002

Intelligence Community Recruitment Problems

Glenn Reynolds writes:

MORE FBI RECRUITMENT PROBLEMS: I mentioned below that the FBI is having problems recruiting people with foreign-language skills. It's also having trouble recruiting people with computer skills, for somewhat similar reasons. This has troubling implications for the FBI's future as a lead antiterrorism agency.
Either the FBI needs to address its hiring and retention problems, or we need to find (or create) another agency to handle antiterrorism.

At the H2K2 conference I enjoyed a presentation by Robert Steele who thinks a main problem of the intelligence community is it's incestese self referencing. To work there you need a security clerance which means better you never have been overseas or in contact with people having different ideas then US mainstream. You have to be young and sportive. So how should they ever get multilingual, experienced specialists?
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