Another report of leave cancelled for FBI.greenspun.com : LUSENET : TimeBomb 2000 (Y2000) : One Thread |
In regards to the FBI cancelling leave around New Years, I spoke to a spouse of an agent today. The story is confirmed. Black out is mid-November to mid-January. And are Theeeey Pissed!Yeah yeah. I know. I use an alias and no real email. But I'm not the only one who works with FBI agent spouses. Ask around.
Only believe what you can confirm and keep your...
-- eyes_open (best@wishes.net), July 12, 1999
Couldn't this be just as much for Terrorism or madness as anything else?
-- Johnny (JLJTM@BELLSOUTH.NET), July 12, 1999.
No, do do bird. They don't do this -- agency wide -- every year. They are doing it for the first time this year. Duh...use your brain!
-- JustMe (JustMe@home.alone), July 12, 1999.
<<<>>> Does it matter?
-- John Beck (eurisko111@aol.com), July 12, 1999.
It seems likely to me that they have received specific intelligence regarding a terrorist threat. It doesn't make sense to use agents as traffic cops if the signals don't work.
-- Dog Gone (layinglow@rollover.now), July 12, 1999.
A fellow employee has a brother who works for the FBI as well as a father who is a retired agent.She verified that her brother had his late year leave cancelled with the official reason given as possible cyber-terrorism.Any kind of Y2K problems will make it very difficult to determine which problems are Y2K and which are due to cyber hi- jinks.Cyber-terrorism is a scary possibility which should add to the New Years fun we may have next year.
-- Dennis Chornomaz (Dchorno@aol.com), July 12, 1999.
I'll bet they will really be peeved when leave is cancelled indefinitely, followed soon by the job, as well as the paycheck! Expect to soon see a thread where all Christmas leaves are cancelled for all terrorist groups worldwide, and their girlfriends and wives are quite upset!Seems the FBI was only about 7 months behind the Royal Canadian Mounties. Guess they were just slow to get it!
-- (snowleopard6@webtv.net), July 13, 1999.