FBI Chief’s Controversial Retirement

Investigation Retirement  Mobile's Special Agent in Charge is retiring this month but it's not necessarily out of choice.
by Tiffany Craig
Published: Wed, August 05, 2009 - 6:02 pm CST Last Updated: Wed, August 05, 2009 - 6:21 pm CST
Controversy surrounds the retirement of Mobile's top federal agent. Debra Mack, the Special Agent in charge of the local FBI office, is calling it quits at the end of August.

Sources close to this story say the special agent was at the center of an internal investigation involving a high ranking local politician. The investigation was some two years in the making and Mack was reportedly given two choices by the bureau.

Our source says she was offered a demotion as a field agent in Birmingham or to retire. Mack made the retirement announcement to her staff on Tuesday.

A spokesperson at the Mobile office tells us that Mack plans to stay in the Port City.

The News 5 Investigative Team tried to catch up with Mack to ask her questions about the investigation. She was quickly whisked back to Washington D.C. on Wednesday afternoon so we haven't had a chance... yet.

We first introduced you to Special Agent Mack in 2005 when she was chosen for the job in Mobile. At the time, Mack was one of only two African-American women to ever head an FBI field office in the entire country!
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Who would even notice another dirty politician in Prichard?
LOL

Might not even be a Mobile politician.  Could be Prichard.

Well the FBI is not known for airing it’s dirty laundry unless there is just no way around it.Spanky is certainly a good possibility and a couple of others up HIGH in the Mobile government or WAS in the city government.

That would make sense, because we all know the FBI was investigating the guy for ethics complaints and it has gone on for a long time.

This will either get interesting or it will be shoved under the rug like a lot of things around here.

well no putting the cat back in the bag. now if the cat is wearing a bow tie, would that make it a cat in a hat? come on guys spill the beans.

Circuit Judge is an elected office, but I have never thought of judges as being high ranking political figures.

Funny how some people are allowed to just fade into the sunset and others end up in jail for a little bit of nothing.

bama after reading the link u posted, this makes for intersting speculation. fbi raided his house, he was in charge of case in volving spanky,spanky is or wasa top level politician.wonder is this a set up or i shoudl say was a set up. it had to be serious stuff to demote a special agent in charge of a field office.seem this pile of mess with spanky has been stirred so0 much its beginning to stink. oops, wrong, i should say stinking more.i wish i still had my contacts at mpd. i just might try to run one of them down.

has any one noticed that wkrg is only one reporting thispart of the issue??  paper has no mention, nor wpmi. the phrase top level brings many names to mind. i would love to speculate but at risk of naming any one in error ill wait till more is revealed. it does make u wonder, considering whats gone one here in last 2 years. this must have been a major league person forit to have taken 2 years to investigate. wait!!!!!!!!!,  noooooooo, no way.well heck it might be, u dont suppose this has to do wiff , spanky lol

I wonder if this has anything to do with Steve Giadini?
Remember this case:
http://blog.al.com/live/2009/04/assistant_mobile_county_distri.html

yes there was a test, on a computer program. the rub here is if ur hired at any job, and supposed to be trained, even its to work at fast food joints. you should be trained completly.make u wonder how top level training is at fbi. whileim not trashing them,i cant under stand how any place fails to allow complete traing, and expect some one to function an or pass atest.

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