Not exactly a "boo-hoo" moment but a little funny.
www.nytimes.com
"The inspectors — mockingly nicknamed “booger eaters” by some agents who see them as paper-pushing nerds — carried badges in the 1990s when the bureau was part of the Treasury Department. But they were stripped away in 2003 when the A.T.F. migrated to the Department of Justice.
They lobbied for years to get them back until the acting director under President George W. Bush intervened to strike a compromise: smaller, rounded badges. But after bureau lawyers raised legal objections, those, too, were taken away, leaving each inspector with a plastic ID card and a tiny A.T.F.-branded coin.
The issue still rankles, and some current and former inspectors sport replicas of the old Treasury-issued badges on their lapels."
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"The inspectors — mockingly nicknamed “booger eaters” by some agents who see them as paper-pushing nerds — carried badges in the 1990s when the bureau was part of the Treasury Department. But they were stripped away in 2003 when the A.T.F. migrated to the Department of Justice.
They lobbied for years to get them back until the acting director under President George W. Bush intervened to strike a compromise: smaller, rounded badges. But after bureau lawyers raised legal objections, those, too, were taken away, leaving each inspector with a plastic ID card and a tiny A.T.F.-branded coin.
The issue still rankles, and some current and former inspectors sport replicas of the old Treasury-issued badges on their lapels."
