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...Before 9/11, many FBI offices had ancient green-screen computers with no Internet access. Like scriveners from another century, agents wrote their reports out in longhand and often in triplicate. In fact, until a few months ago, many agents were still communicating with one another--and with outsiders--via fax. Some agents kept their best information in shoe boxes under their desks because they didn't trust the computer security system. That's hardly surprising after it turned out that one of their own--FBI security and computer whiz Robert Hanssen--had been working for the Soviets and the Russians...
...will say that the NSA intercepted and analyzed "several communications" between future 9/11 hijacker Khalid al Midhar and an al-Qaeda safe house in the Middle East. But despite the agency's vaunted signals intelligence (SIGINT) technology, which enables it to intercept telephone, radio, cell phone, e-mail and fax messages worldwide, the NSA didn?t realize that the messages, from someone vaguely identified as "Khalid," originated in the U.S., the report charges. As a result, the FBI wasn?t alerted to what could have been a valuable lead...
...HUPD officer was sent to Taubman Center on Eliot Street to take a report of a stolen fax machine...
...Union has only one truly global competitor, which is stuck playing David to its Goliath. MoneyGram was founded in 1988, back when Western Union was spiraling toward bankruptcy. The industry leader had made a bad bet on its Telex division, which was obliterated by the sudden rise of the fax machine. But MoneyGram was dumped for antitrust reasons in 1996 after its parent company, First Data, picked up the much larger and better known Western Union, which had filed for Chapter...