[reviseddamage]

>Many of those Federal agents are just 9-to-5 guys, probably not too bright, quite content to make a good middle class living.

That is not true. I've worked with a few of them, and they are more intelligent than you think. Most of them work 70-80 hours a week, have difficult times with their families ( high divorce rate). They just happen to work for superiors that care for "cases closed" and the cosmetic appearance and the applause from politicians of a case being closed.