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...Laura Palmer's murder, a dancing dwarf or a Log Lady. They turned prime-time TV into a giant indie art-house theater, and regular American channel surfers by the millions became its denizens. The story of a teen girl's death--and the pie-eating, deadpan-soliloquy-spouting FBI agent investigating it--carried on the theme from Lynch movies like Blue Velvet of sordid secrets and ancient horrors hidden behind a façade of wholesome Americana, proving that TV could equal or surpass film in its storytelling ambitions. Twin Peaks may have had the shelf life of a freshly...
When a bomb exploded at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, security guard Richard Jewell helped evacuate the area and was hailed as a hero. Days later the FBI leaked his name as its primary suspect. The media savaged him; FBI agents tore through the home he shared with his mother and ripped family photos. After investigators exonerated Jewell that year, he sued and settled with NBC and other media and got a rare apology from AG Janet Reno. In 2005, Eric Rudolph confessed to the attack. Jewell died, apparently of natural causes, at his Georgia home...
...Hazmi and al-Midhar falling between the cracks is not the stuff of conspiracies or simple incompetence. The CIA and the FBI are Cold War institutions that have never shared databases. Their communications systems were never designed to interface. FBI and CIA cultures have never meshed. The FBI collects evidence for trial, the CIA collects information to analyze it. No wonder leads are dropped...
...other CIA manager for 9/11 lapses is to misunderstand the problem. Neither Tenet nor any other CIA director has ever had the mandate or the authority to force the NSA to share its raw databases with CIA analysts. Nor has any director had the mandate or authority to integrate FBI and CIA communications. This is the President and Congress' prerogative...
...FBI are talking better these days, if for no other reason than the FBI and CIA understand what went wrong on 9/11. But the FBI still needs an intelligence division that deals in information rather than evidence. The NSA needs to find a system that allows other agencies to interrogate its databases or at least trace names using a computer. And the CIA needs to find a better way of disseminating its intelligence without compromising its sources...