By Allan Lengel
ticklethewire.com
Michael B. Steinbach, who has been acting head of the Miami FBI since last August, becomes the permanent special agent in charge.
Steinbach also served as head of the Jacksonville office while he was acting SAC for Miami.
He began his career as an agent in 1995, and was first posted in Chicago, where he worked in the fugitive and violent crimes/major offenders programs.
In 2003, he was promoted to supervisory special agent in the Counterterrorism Division at FBI headquarters. He provided program management for FBI operations in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and in Afghanistan.
In 2004, he was off to Afghanistan to serve as the deputy on-scene commander for FBI operations.
Steinbach was assigned assistant legal attaché in Israel in 2005. In January 2006, he was promoted to legal attaché. He worked with Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority on all FBI investigative matters.
In 2008, Mr. Steinbach was promoted to supervisor of the Violent Crimes Task Force in the D.C. Field Office, and in 2009 was appointed assistant section chief for the International Terrorism Operations Section in the Counterterrorism Division.
In May 2010, Steinbach was made deputy director for Law Enforcement Services at the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center. He was then assigned special assistant to the associate deputy director of the FBI.
In April 2012, he was promoted to special agent in charge of the Jacksonville Division.
