Word: aragoncillo
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...light as FBI director Robert Mueller continues to try to prove that the bureau's handling of intelligence has been fixed since he took the helm following the agency's pre-Sept. 11 missteps and the jailing of superspy Robert Hanssen. The arrest last month of FBI analyst Leandro Aragoncillo raises doubts about the effectiveness of reforms put in place after Hanssen sold secrets from FBI computers to Russia. Aragoncillo, who previously worked in the offices of Vice Presidents Al Gore and Dick Cheney, is suspected of taking classified documents from the same FBI database as Hanssen and passing them...
...analyst came under suspicion in March after Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials tipped off Aragoncillo's superiors that he had tried to intervene on behalf of a man who was detained for overstaying his tourist visa. That man later became known to officials as Aragoncillo's alleged Filipino handler, former senior Philippine police official Michael Ray Aquino. According to arrest papers, a subsequent FBI audit of Aragoncillo's computer use found that he had searched for documents out of his area of responsibility. But a full investigation was not initiated until July. Perhaps most troubling, during the intervening four months...
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