I guess he wasn't fully qualified!

[Lazie]

FBI member's application for Police Commissioner turned down


http://rjrnewsonline.com/local/fbi-m...er-turned-down

[Hortical]

Maybe dem looking for a third rate English cop like Mark Shields who had zero accomplishments before coming to Jamaica.

[MdmeX]

From the comments I read on line yesterday, people in Jamaica were not going "heads over heel" about him!!

[Gamma]

i hear him on an interview this morning and he has some baggage. Including suing the FBI. the case is currently on appeal, by the FBI according to him.

interesting that he converted to islam while being assigned to field offices in the arabian peninsula.

[Bricktop]

a cursory google search of his name will tell you why...not somebody you would want heading the nations police force...

[Bricktop]

and the incident at the toll plaza which seemed a bit premeditated...

[Hortical]

RATTIGAN v. HOLDER

For example, on several occasions Leighton saw Rattigan wearing “full Saudi Arabian costume” while in the U.S. embassy. Considering this “very unusual,” Leighton and other staff wondered whether Rattigan might be “inappropriately under the influence of his Saudi counterparts.” Trial Tr. at 57–60 (July 23, 2009). Leighton also claimed he heard Rattigan talk about hosting “a fairly wild party” attended by several women described as “nurses.” Id. at 62. According to Leighton, temporary duty personnel recounted other similarly raucous events hosted by Rattigan. -

that Rattigan occasionally wore Saudi national clothing he had received as a gift from the Saudi security service, creating the impression he had “gone native,” (2) that Rattigan's Saudi colleagues were attempting to find him a “suitable wife,” (3) that Rattigan hosted wild parties attended by other agents and by female “nurses,” a term that might have “be[en] used by ․ Rattigan as a euphemism for ‘prostitutes,’ “ (4) that Rattigan and his assistant, Abdel–Hafiz, were inattentive to the FBI's investigation of the September 11 attacks, (5) that Rattigan took an extended absence to make a pilgrimage to Mecca along with Abdel–Hafiz and their Saudi counterparts during which he could be contacted only through the Saudi security service, a -

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[Mosiah]

He may have been the wrong choice from the get-go, but I would personally like to see an outsider get the job.

Either that or someone who is not liked by most of the other police officers.