Word: fbi
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...tragedy for America, a career move for Bush. The attacks allowed the President to push through Congress restrictive laws that would have been defeated in any climate but the ?war on terror? chill. ?Fahrenheit 9/11? shows some tragicomic effects of the Patriot Act: a man quizzed by the FBI for casually mentioning at his health club that he thought Bush was an ?asshole?; a benign peace group in Fresno, Cal., infiltrated by an undercover police agent...
...content of the testimony Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney gave in the Oval Office remains confidential. But a source says Bush told the commission he had not been warned of the CIA'S and the FBI's concerns about would-be 747 pilot Zacarias Moussaoui, who was arrested in August 2001. Yet Bush went out of his way to express confidence in CIA director George Tenet. Bush described his activities on Sept. 11 and explained how he communicated from the road with Cheney, in a secure bunker back at the White House. A top Administration aide explained this...
...outside a courthouse last year. Greek terrorism experts believe the bombs were less a warning of things to come than a political provocation aimed at embarrassing the government. They succeeded. There were plenty of red faces among the Greek delegation that arrived in Washington later that day to brief FBI and CIA officials on security arrangements for the Olympics. The modest bomb that hit the Atlanta Games in 1996 proves that no nation is impervious to such attacks. But the ease with which so many small-time Greek bombers are able to set off their blasts in Athens makes security...
...When Janet Reno's Justice Department protested efforts in the 1990s to make it easier for Silicon Valley to export encryption technology overseas, then-Senator Ashcroft seemed unconcerned with her contention that terrorists were turning to Internet encryption to communicate. One example she, FBI head Louis Freeh and others in law enforcement cited: Ramzi Yousef, mastermind of the 1993 WTC bombing, used encryption to hide details of his plot to blow up 11 U.S. airliners over the Pacific. But Ashcroft, in a 1997 piece in USIA Electronic Journal, wrote that while coded messages and maps might be used to facilitate...
...FBI men reassuringly point out that the bureau's file of 112,500,000 fingerprints is used to identify amnesia victims and mangled corpses as well as such underworld characters as Airbrake Smith and Rooster Face Fannie. But what no tourist will see is the bureau's investigative file covering thousands of ordinary U.S. citizens. It was the existence of those files--important strands in the nation's gigantic net to catch a few disloyal citizens--which gave even the most ardent admirer of the FBI a slightly uneasy feeling. It was not that very many people objected to flushing...