What does it take to get fired from the FBI?

Saying that your employers are inept.

Edmonds worked as a contract linguist for the FBI for about six months, translating material in Turkish, Persian and Azerbaijani. She was dismissed in 2002 after she complained repeatedly that bureau linguists had produced slipshod and incomplete translations of important terrorism intelligence before and after the September 11 attacks.

She also accused a fellow Turkish linguist in the bureau's Washington field office of blocking the translation of material involving acquaintances who had come under FBI suspicion and said the bureau had allowed diplomatic sensitivities with other nations to impede the translation of important terrorism intelligence.

Rest assured: Failing to predict 9/11 is still OK.