By 2007, the Government Accountability Office predicts the Interior
Departmennt will lose 61 percent of its program managers; the Forest
Service will lose 49 percent of its foresters and 61 percent of its
entomologists (as western forests are being ravaged by the bark
beetle).  EPA will lose 45 percent of its toxicologists.

44 percent of federal employees are eligible to retire within five years.

and

72 percent of recent college graduates surveyed said they had, at most, limited interest in working for the Federal Government.

Following this statement Mr. Reigel, whose great-great-grandfather waslost on the Titanic, proceeded to walk under thirteen ladders and past ablack cat.  He then used the cat to break thirteen mirrors.

Seriously - having carried out nuclear plant cyber safety audits, I candefinitively state that Mr. Reigel is wrong.  I don't know what movedhim to make this baseless claim, but in my experience all it would taketo seriously affect a nuclear plant system would be an insider, alaptop, and a cybercafe.  And the insider would just be a convenience.

You're doing a heckuva job, Mr. Reigel.

In a provocative move, FBI Assistant Director LouisReigel, who heads the enforcement agency's Cyber Division, said todaythat Al Qaeda and other militant groups do not have the ability todisable power plants, airports and other “critical infrastructure”through the Internet.

http://today.reuters.com/