Time was, brick agents didn't have to hold down cover jobs.

Won't I even have a brick agent to help?

We could put other brick agents out there in Wild Country, instead of you.

Vanatter was a no-nonsense type who'd always shown respect for brick agents.

Oh the Justice Department funds its informants, and pays a few informal brick agents, boy.

A photo of so-called brick agents depicts a lone woman, symbolically standing at the outer left margin.

Once they earned their badges as FBI brick agents, both women became married to the job.

The grizzled eyebrows lowered as oldJim Street regarded his new brick agent.

People like Dunbar and Roth, who were sitting behind their desks, had no idea how close a brick agent gets to an informant.

Hell, when I was a brand-new brick agent, I started working the Gotti case.

As the headlights of her vehicle cut through the blizzard, the seasoned brick agent began thinking of a way to use that surveillance team to her advantage.

Feeling a bit tired after spending the night at O'Hare International in Chicago while waiting to catch a shuttle to Dulles, the brick agent rubbed her face in disappointment.

There was a culture in the Bureau that dismissed the work of earnest brick agents like Nancy Floyd and her colleagues in Minneapolis while rewarding the mean-spirited incompetence of supervisors.

The chemistry between an FBI brick agent like Nancy and a source like Salem is a hard thing to define, but after he'd given her a couple of more leads that panned out, they just clicked.

But by the late 1990s, it had developed into a two-tiered entity, with street or brick agents like Nancy Floyd subject to discipline much harsher than agents above the rank of SAC (special agent in charge).

Even though the F.B.I. chief, Robert Mueller, praised Ms. Rowley during his press conference on Wednesday, street agents, or "brick agents" as those who hit the bricks are called, whisper that her days are numbered.

Dunbar was the product of a little-known aspect of the FBI: the two-tiered system that separates brick agents like Floyd and Anticev, who are investigators, from the hierarchy of supervisors, ASACS, and SACs known collectively as "management."

Whitecomm even made a $380,000 profit-which wound up in the Bureau's coffers, Considering herself a "brick agent," a Bureau term used to describe agents who enjoyed working the field, also called "street agents," Esther Cruz loved field operations and had a high degree of respect for anyone who pounded the bricks.

I spent about six years here as a street agent, too.

He was different from the younger street agents and supervisors I knew.

On one side were the street agents who knew the truth about Salem.

I'm just a street agent, and I don't have the power to override management.

We've compiled data from our street agents all over the country and washed it through the computer.

Deck has explained to me that many of these street agents represent more than one company.

Real experts, not street agents who had been through a two-week course at the academy.

It's very hard to see how the high street agent can still justify charging the fees they do.

Many well-known high street agents are just as guilty.

There are street agents and regular agents who will tell these kids whatever they want to hear right now.

The operations between club employee, street agent and player existed then, as they do now, with almost no supervision.

Brown declined to comment on Lyles but said he refused to deal with street agents.

You seem to forget that you are but a lowly street agent.

Among other discoveries, to be a Wall Street agent, power resides in being "smart."

Miller acknowledged having phone contact with Barkley during the season but has denied using street agents, or runners, to land him.

More than three quarters of those questioned said they did not feel they were catered for by high street agents.

They were drones, low-level street agents, and this was good, Metcalfe considered.

I gave the order to stop keeping statistics the day we spoke-but I can't keep the street agents from talking to each other.

Nancy Floyd was a straight, honest, incredibly hardworking street agent," he said. "

No college scouts or street agents watched.

Coaches deal regularly with handlers and street agents.

Finch did the best he could recruiting in a city known for messy recruiting, street agents and the like.

I worry some about the street agents.”

Illicit characters called street agents broker them to outlaw junior colleges, where they play without even the pretense of being students.

Only parents who have had children go through the meat grinder know the depth of this truth: street agents, hustlers, ambitious coaches.