Of course, people such as y2kpro will dismiss this because they dont like the messenger, WorldNetDaily, but........

"It's a mess," concluded the agent concerning the FBI's Y2K preparation. "They're very much behind. If it was a 72 hour 'snowstorm,' you wouldn't bring out 12,000 FBI agents on stand-by and, for the first time maybe in FBI history, cancel everybody's annual leave for a 20-30 day time frame. That's very significant. In my line of work, that's called a clue."

In other word, pro, the FBI's telling you youre clueless. But, we knew that, didnt we?

-- de (delewis@Xinetone.net), July 08, 1999

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"...we're livin' on dog food,so what!"-Iggy Pop

-- zoobie (zoobiezoob@yahoo.com), July 08, 1999.

PANIC IN THE YEAR ZERO

FBI cancels leaves for Y2K
Unprecedented action signals agency planning for worst

) 1999 WorldNetDaily.com
July 8, 1999

The Federal Bureau of Investigation recently notified all their agents that all leaves from Dec. 15 through mid-January -- even those previously approved -- are officially canceled.

According to a special agent within the Department of Health and Human Services, a partner in the FBI received a memo stating all end-of-the-year leaves had been canceled for three to four weeks between the middle of December and the middle of January. Both of the agents wish to remain anonymous; the FBI agent didn't speak directly with WorldNetDaily.

"The memo said to take all your vacation now. You're not going to be able to carry it over like you sometimes can do at the end of the year," said the agent from the Department of Health and Human Services. "In other words, it's almost like an open-ended thing. They're not sure that, come 2000, they'll be able to release employees from this mobilization."

When asked what it was the FBI might be planning for, the agent admitted he wasn't sure. However, according to the agent, the memo said, "because of the year 2000."

The agent added that the information on the memo probably wouldn't be a "deep dark secret for long" because more than 12,000 agents in the FBI have apparently been notified with the memo. The agent believes the information would have leaked sooner or later.

"It's not classified," the agent added.

WorldNetDaily contacted FBI headquarters but couldn't confirm the agent's information.

"We don't discuss our internal communications," said a FBI spokesperson.

A subsequent call to an FBI field office in Sacramento, Calif., produced similar results.

"From a field office like Sacramento, we can't comment on or confirm internal memoranda," said Nick Rossi, an FBI spokesperson. "That's something you'd have to contact our national headquarters for."

Debbie Weierman, a spokesperson for the FBI headquarters later called WorldNetDaily with an official response to the query about the memo.

"The FBI, like all government agencies and the private sector, is taking prudent steps to avoid potential effects of the Y2K issue," said Weierman. "Additionally, as a part of the responsibility to ensure our ability to meet the demands of our mission, we have also reminded our employees of their ongoing responsibilities to remain available." When asked if this statement meant the FBI has notified agents to not take off for vacation at the end of the year, Weierman said, "I'm not going to get into any discussion on that."

But if an agent requested time off between Dec. 15, and the middle of January, would the FBI deny the request?

"Not necessarily," said Weierman. "It just depends on what is going on at that time."

Commenting on the infrequency of such a move by the FBI, the agent from the Department of Health and Human Services said, "To my knowledge, even during the Iranian crisis in 1980 and the war with Iraq, I don't think the entire FBI had been on alert and all annual leave canceled."

"It's a mess," concluded the agent concerning the FBI's Y2K preparation. "They're very much behind. If it was a 72 hour 'snowstorm,' you wouldn't bring out 12,000 FBI agents on stand-by and, for the first time maybe in FBI history, cancel everybody's annual leave for a 20-30 day time frame. That's very significant. In my line of work, that's called a clue."

-- Dog Gone (layinglow@rollover.now), July 08, 1999.

I think we need to support the efforts of the FBI and other agencys as much as possible. They are not preparing for something someplace else this time, its here!

-- BiGG (supersite@acronet.net), July 08, 1999.

It's not just the FBI. Medical and emergency response personal all across this country Have had leave cancelled from Turkey day all the way past the first of the year. Its going to get very interesting from here on out!

-- Johnny (JLJTM@BELLSOUTH.NET), July 08, 1999.

I'm wondering, are all those FBI folk gonna be stuck in D.C.?

That's the 2nd to the last place I would want to spend the rollover -- the last being Times Square.

-- location, location, (loc@ca.tion), July 08, 1999.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_exnews/19990708_xex_ fbi_cancels_.shtml

-- regular (zzz@z.z), July 08, 1999.

location,

The FBI has headquarters all over the US. The agents will be expected to report to the office in the region they're assigned to.

DJ

-- DJ (reality@check.com), July 08, 1999.

See my post above under CNN...Terrorism. That is why the FBI is to be at their posts. My neighbor works as just a program analyst at the FBI and even HE has known for a couple of months that he was to be at work on 12/31/99-1/1/99.

-- G.I. Worried (CantSay@CantTell.com), July 08, 1999.

Sorry...I meant under C-SPAN thread above...

-- G.I. Worried (CantSay@CantTell.com), July 08, 1999.