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...FBI agents are keeping a tight watch on a handful of suspected Iraqi intelligence officers in the US, according to government sources. They're also quietly keeping looser tabs on as many as 1,000 Iraqi nationals considered "persons of interest" because they are suspected to be fervent Saddam partisans. These covert monitoring programs, along with a recently disclosed overt FBI effort to interview about 50,000 Iraqi emigres scattered around the US, are aimed at spotting early warning signs that the Baghdad regime is attempting to organize terrorist attacks on US soil...
...Tenet has also made mistakes in his six years in the job. The biggest, say some critics, was failing to gain control of all U.S. spy operations, from the Pentagon to the FBI. "In 1998 [he] declared war on terrorism, and most of the intelligence community ignored him," says former Senate Intelligence chairman Bob Graham. Critics say the situation has not improved much since the Sept. 11 attacks: the FBI has been slow to reform its internal-communications system, while the Defense Department has gone off in its own direction, trying to carve out new propaganda and analysis shops that...
David Wise is a Washington-based intelligence historian and the author of Spy: The Inside Story of How the FBI's Robert Hanssen Betrayed America (Random House...
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...plan, including some airport directors and aviation-security experts, say it takes the undercover FAMs off planes, where they are most needed, and puts them in terminals already patrolled by local cops (both uniformed and undercover) and often by customs officers and Immigration and Naturalization agents. In addition, the FBI for years has had agents dedicated to airports, conducting surveillance. "I'm afraid they will all end up tripping over each other," says David Plavin, the U.S. director of Airports Council International. --By Sally B. Donnelly