Eggen,
Dan. "FBI Apologizes to CIA Spy Suspect." Washington Post,
11 Sep. 2001, A5. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
Eggen,
Dan. "FBI Apologizes to CIA Spy Suspect." Washington Post,
11 Sep. 2001, A5. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
"The FBI has formally apologized to a CIA intelligence officer who had been suspended from duty for 21 months after he was wrongly targeted as a spy." The apology came in a letter sent by Neil J. Gallagher, assistant director in charge of the FBI's national security division, to the officer last month. "'I sincerely regret the adverse impact that this investigation had on you and the members of your family,' Gallagher wrote in a letter dated Aug. 16."
[CIA/00s/01; FBI/01]
Eggen, Dan. "FBI Chief Confirms Misuse of Subpoenas: Security Letters Used to Get Personal Data." Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2008. A2. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
On 5 March 2008, "FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III told senators ... that agents improperly used" national security letters, a type of administrative subpoena, "to obtain personal data about Americans until internal reforms were enacted last year."
[FBI/00s/08 & DomSec]
Eggen,
Dan. "FBI Director to Propose 'Super Squad' for Terror." Washington
Post, 15 May 2002, A1. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
According to those familiar with FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III's plans, an "FBI 'super squad,' headquartered in Washington, would lead all major terrorism investigations worldwide.... The proposed shift would include the hiring of hundreds of agents and analysts as well as the creation of an Office of Intelligence, headed by a former CIA official, that would serve as a national clearinghouse for classified terrorism information."
[FBI/02; Terrorism/02/Fallout]
Eggen, Dan. "FBI Fails to Transform Itself, Panel Says: Former Sept. 11 Commission 'Taken Aback' by Personnel, Technology Problems." Washington Post, 7 Jun. 2005, A4. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
Former members of the 9/11 commission have "reorganized as a private nonprofit group, the 9/11 Public Discourse Project.... The 10-member bipartisan panel plans to issue a 'report card' on the government's performance in improving its counterterrorism efforts." On 6 June 2005, the group convened the "first in a series of hearings to be held this summer." Former Deputy Attorney General Jamie S. Gorelick said that the group "was 'taken aback' by the extent of FBI failures..., including the FBI's scrapping of an expensive computer upgrade and its continued difficulty hiring qualified intelligence analysts."
[FBI/00s/05/Gen]
Eggen, Dan. "FBI Misused Secret Wiretaps, According to Memo." Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2002, A14. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
According to an internal FBI memorandum obtained by Rep. William D. Delehunt (D-MA), the "FBI illegally videotaped suspects, improperly recorded telephone calls and intercepted e-mails without court permission in more than a dozen secret terrorism and intelligence investigations.... The errors in the first three months of 2000 were considered so egregious that FBI officials in Washington launched a wholesale review of the agency's use of secret wiretaps and searches."
[FBI/02]
Eggen, Dan. "FBI Papers Indicate Intelligence Violations: Secret Surveillance Lacked Oversight." Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2005, A1. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
According to heavily censored documents provided to the Washington Post by the Electronic Privacy Information Center, which acquired them through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, "[t]he FBI has conducted clandestine surveillance on some U.S. residents ... without proper paperwork or oversight." However, FBI officials argued "that none of the cases have involved major violations and most amount to administrative errors. The officials also said that any information obtained from improper searches or eavesdropping is quarantined and eventually destroyed."
[FBI/05 & DomSec]
Eggen, Dan. "FBI Picks Another Outsider for Key Post: NSA Official Will Oversee Intelligence." Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2003, A19. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
On 3 April 2003, the FBI announced the appointment of Maureen S. Baginski, currently signals intelligence director at the NSA's Central Security Service, as the bureau's executive assistant director for intelligence. Steven C. McCraw was named to head the FBI's Office of Intelligence under Baginski. McCraw is a 20-year FBI veteran and currently heads the San Antonio field office.
[FBI/03]
Eggen,
Dan. "FBI Refuses to Apologize to Cleared CIA Officer." Washington
Post, 12 Aug. 2001, A2. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
"In the nearly six months since the arrest of FBI spy Robert P. Hanssen, the bureau has refused requests for a formal apology from a CIA officer who was wrongly targeted as a suspect for Hanssen's crimes, according to documents, government officials and the man's attorney."
Days after this report was published, the FBI formally apologized in a letter dated 16 August 2001 to the officer from "Neil J. Gallagher, assistant director in charge of the FBI's national security division." Dan Eggen, "FBI Apologizes to CIA Spy Suspect," Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2001, A5.
[CIA/00s/01; FBI/01]
Eggen, Dan. "FBI Reports On Missing Laptops and Weapons." Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2007, A6. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
According to a report released on 12 February 2007 by Justice Department Inspector General Glenn A. Fine, the FBI had 160 laptop computers lost or stolen from February 2002 to September 2005. At least 10 of these contained sensitive or classified information. In the same timeframe, the Bureau also had 160 missing weapons, including shotguns and submachine guns. "The results are an improvement on findings in a similar audit in 2002, which reported that 354 weapons and 317 laptops were lost or stolen at the FBI over about two years."
[FBI/07]
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