FBI Officials Privatize Selves

The Chicago Tribune has a good piece today on the "hemorrhage of top talent" at the FBI to the private sector. Cruise lines, banks and food service companies are among those benefiting from an exodus of FBI security and counterterrorism officials. Senators grilled FBI Director Robert Mueller about the issue at a hearing Tuesday. His response: "Since Sept. 11 . . . everyone wants a security director . . . and many of these corporations can pay far more than the federal government."