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The Crown Prince and Paras had become increasingly close in the past few months, and the two shared a disregard for what they saw as plebeian laws. Nicknamed the Killer Prince, Paras was involved in at least four hit-and-run fatalities and several incidents of discharging firearms in public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Death of Vishnu | 6/11/2001 | See Source »

Dies says most of the FBI's networks are twelve years old and do not support Internet browsers or even Microsoft Office applications. Two-thirds of the desktop computers in the FBI are up to eight years old, with green screens and ancient software. There are virtually no high speed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why G-Men Need IT Professionals | 6/6/2001 | See Source »

One problem highlighted by the McVeigh case document flap, Dies says, is that even when a field office correctly dispatched documents to the command center in Oklahoma City, there was no system for acknowledging their receipt and logging them in, which meant that the sending office never knew whether the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why G-Men Need IT Professionals | 6/6/2001 | See Source »

Last fall, Dies, backed by Freeh, convinced the Congressional appropriators to give the FBI $300 million over three years to upgrade the bureau systems. "I've spent the last six months going through the federal procurement system," he says. "It seems like a long time to me. But the procurement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why G-Men Need IT Professionals | 6/6/2001 | See Source »

Due to conflict of interest rules, Dies, who holds a chunk of IBM stock, can't hire IBM's own stable of experts. "If I could, I could get this fixed a whole lot faster," he says. "But we have capable partners (contractors). And I will get this fixed - in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why G-Men Need IT Professionals | 6/6/2001 | See Source »

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