Talk:Special agent

message: Re: Law of agency
As I understand it, it actually has a very specific use. A special agent thus have some powers transfered to them (but not all) and are able to act in lieu of a principal. In the case of the FEDs you discuss, the individals that have that designation can use some but not all of the US federal power. What they can and cant do would probably depend almost entirely on the agency in question.   — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.103.203.24 (talk) 13:08, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Meaning and use 

message: A special agent may or may not refer to someone from the USA federal govt, but at the moment it does. It seems like some kind of political anti-American sentiment to place the template at the top of the page. Other nationalities are welcome to put references to local special agents
Agreed.  I removed the Globalize reference.  Not every term in wikipedia is used internationally.  Google Special Agent.  If you can find some other international reference, then please include in the article. As for additional references for disambiguation, the links to USAJOBS were just that!  This article is specific to an occupation for which the best representation and supporting documentation is, in fact, current job announcements.  I went to great deal of effort to develop the different links to USAJOBS to make that point, but obviously some other editor missed the point and deleted them.  They should be re-inserted.Ajtrogue (talk) 16:16, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Globalize/USA

message: Who is the Current director of the FBI
- Robert S. Mueller, III
"ICE Special Agents are not limited to operating at or near ports of entry, but instead can operate anywhere in the US and even enforce US law and international treaties overseas."
- It seems that although they may be given the authority to, I highly doubt other countries allow the US to enforce its own laws outside US Borders. Perhaps a re-wording? I do not know the exactly what is correct in this situation
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Misha
My reading of this issue is: American (or any other nation's) LEOs may not enforce their own laws in a foreign nation (in situations where extradition would be inappropriate, impractical or unlikely to be obtained) without:
#Probable cause that a crime has been committed (the same burden of proof as an arrest warrant)
#The permission of the "host" nation state
Though I'm no lawyer.Editus Reloaded 17:47, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Director 

message: The post below this is rather exceedingly incorrect. Analysts and linguists are not intelligence officers. Additionally, FBI counterintelligence Special Agents, DO have arrest authority as they are both intelligence officers and law enforcement officers. -inside source 
This is incorrect. Intelligence analysts/linguist/etc. are considered intelligence officers, not agents. Agent in intelligence parlance usually refers to indigenous sources that are recruited by human intelligence officers as informants. The only exception to this is in the defense agencies where counterintelligence personnel are formally called "special agents." They are still intelligence officers and don't have arrest authority but do other activities such as offensive counterintelligence operations or other efforts to mitigate espionage, sabotage, terrorism, or assassination.
The preceding statement is untrue.  Counterintelligence Special Agents have law enforcement authority including investigative and arrest authority.  Source:  Army Regulation (AR) 381-20 Chapters 4 (investigations) and 8 (Section II).In the intelligence world, "special agent" isn't synonymous with supervisory positions, individual worth, or anything heirarchicial - "special" simply means "focused" as in they focus on specific cases rather than taking on a multitude of tasks simultaneously.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:14B:302:698C:B498:6DDE:85D3:490F (talk) 01:36, 18 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Special Agent v Agent 

message: "It seems that although they may be given the authority to, I highly doubt other countries allow the US to enforce its own laws outside US Borders. Perhaps a re-wording? I do not know the exactly what is correct in this situation
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Misha"
-Misha,
I think you are correct in questioning this authority, although ICE does have offices worldwide, for the most part, they do not actually have law enforcement authority to execute arrest and serve warrants and such (Even for international intelligence agencies like the CIA, seizing persons is very risky and many times an illegal act).   ICE's authority sometimes lies under exchange agreements with the foreign governments, which usually means that the U.S. extends the same courtesies to the foreign country's agents in the U.S. (As you can image the U.S. Constitution would not allow foreign governments to make arrests and act as law enforcement while visiting the U.S.) Under most circumstances, these agreements only allow ICE to work in more of a consulting or intelligence role rather than an "international law enforcer".  As a matter of fact, this international role is not unique to ICE; quite a few other agencies have similar exchange agreements or other agreements with foreign governments, to include among other agencies: the U.S. Marshal Service, the Diplomatic Security Service (DSS), Department of Commerce, Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the DEA, and the FBI and the military agencies.
"ICE agents not only have the power to enforce all federal laws..." 
- This line is little misleading, it appears to purport that ICE has this authority exclusively, it may need to be reworded.  Most 1811, criminal investigators have the power to enforce all federal laws, especially when one of the laws being violated is tied to the specific agent's jurisdiction.  (IE, ICE cannot just pick up a tax evasion case without the IRS' involvement and usually their involvement in a tax case would have to be related to a violation wihtin ICE's jurisdiction of immigration and customs laws.  On the other hand, an agency like the DEA or ATF can charge bank fraud, wire fraud, tax fraud or mail fraud, when investigating drug or gun violations, when these fraud charges may be linked to money laundering of illegal proceeds).  
"...but also applicable state & local laws, if so authorized by the state they are operating within."
This line is also misleading, again the wording connotes that ICE has this authority that other agencies do not (it falls right below the argument that ICE has the broadest authority). ICE is not the sole federal law enforcement agency authorized to enforce state and local laws.  This authority is not granted by the federal government or the specific law enforcement agency, but by the individual state.  There is no state in the U.S. that has granted peace officer status to ICE alone, in every state that ICE has been granted limited or full "peace officer authority", other federal agencies would have been granted similar authorities. As a matter of fact many states have not updated their books and do not recognize ICE as an agency but grant these authorities to the "Immigration and Naturalization Service" and/or the "U.S. Customs Service."  Even with the granted authority from the state, by policy, some agencies dissuade or prohibit their investigators from enforcing state violations.
-Shoe
Shoepolish22 07:37, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  ICE Jurisdiction 

message: I found 19 links to jobsearch.usajobs.gov. Surely valid links if you're looking for a job, but I can't see the point of these links in an encyclopedic entry. One link under References should suffice, if at all. Clean-up? – Adrian Lozano (talk) 21:07, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jobsearch? 

message: This is mentioned several times but not explained or detailed. The Office of Personnel Management article referenced nearby doesn't mention or explain what a job series is, let alone what 1811 is. Anyone? 78.149.235.150 (talk) 00:41, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I was looking at this talk page for the very same reason. It's a pity nobody has picked this up in the last four years... --Bogdan Wolynetz (talk) 15:56, 30 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Job series 1811 

message: I am puzzled about the term. Is special agent somehow different from ordinary agents or regular agents? What is special about them? --77.109.221.214 (talk) 20:14, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Special Agent 

message: This reads like an ad and should be removed. ~~ Jbaer50 (talk) 16:44, 26 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removing special agent website section 

message: "In the FBI, the heads of the Washington DC, New York City and Los Angeles offices are called Assistant Directors In Charge (ADIC) due to their large size."
Just how fat are these guys?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 123.193.136.83 (talk) 05:27, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clarity 

message: How can a man assault a woman punch front teeth out and then next week punch her daughter in the face..police called both times and he sont go to jail 98.186.197.33 (talk) 08:59, 26 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Justice