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McVeigh and his two sisters grew up in Pendleton, a small town in upstate New York. His father was employed by a company that made radiators; his mother was a travel agent. According to All-American Monster, a biography of McVeigh by a local newspaper reporter named Brandon Stickney, McVeigh's parents were often absent--his father worked nights and his mother led an active social life in the bars and bowling alleys of the area. When McVeigh was 18, his parents divorced and his mother moved to Florida. High school records obtained by TIME indicate that McVeigh...
...felt "victimized" by the White House's actions. "Freeh has a tremendous talent for self-preservation," says a senior White House official. "He figured the waters were rising and decided to get himself to dry land." The bureau also slipped the White House an advance copy of former agent Gary Aldrich's salacious memoir of his tenure at the Clinton White House. "The hallmark of the FBI has been that it's free of politics," says Kentucky Representative Hal Rogers. "With Filegate and other possibilities of political interference, the bubble has burst...
...firestorms, Freeh can take comfort in the fact that his agency retains a special cachet; he can thank The X-Files and The Silence of the Lambs for helping inspire 65,000 people to apply for a few hundred upcoming agent slots (starting salary for an FBI agent: $42,000). He can also take some solace from the fact that while a cozy office in a big law firm may look pretty appealing to him right now, he can depart in his own time; Clinton is in no position to fire him, given the ongoing investigations into campaign contributions. Does...
...examinations a year--especially those handled by the 10 lab workers faulted in the study. "We're going to get hundreds, if not thousands, of motions that are going to encompass every part of the lab, from latent-fingerprint comparisons to tire-tread analysis," says a ranking FBI agent...
...writing as a Senior Gift agent who feels that Cabot House has been deeply wronged in this process. For two months--from the beginning of February until April 7--our house worked tirelessly in an attempt to win the Senior Gift Competition...