Back in 1993 I was doing the whole tourist cross-country road trip thang in the US. A couple of hundred miles south of DC I had this bar room conversation with this guy who told me he resigned from the FBI because they wouldn't let him hire the right people to do the job. Now - I have no actual evidence that he was what he said he was - but the two things he talked about were:
* FBI hires had to be full agents. Run the assault courses, cleared for firearms, etc. Which made hiring some of the white-hat hackers he wanted next to impossible since they were... not really the assault course running types.
* Inter-agency hiring was almost impossible. He wanted to get better humint skills into his group. He had some guy who wanted to move across from the DEA who was dealing with folk who were informing against drug cartels in Mexico who would have been ideal... but couldn't because "that's not how we do things".
Again - no idea if the guy was just bullshitting me... but it seems a mildly odd topic to confuse the English guy with if so ;-)