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After Bush officially nominated him about six months ago, Thernstrom said he had to spend “untold time” completing paperwork for an FBI background check. Now he waits for the Senate to ratify the nomination, which might take days or weeks...

Author: By William B. Higgins, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: President Nominates Harvard Professor | 1/22/2003 | See Source »

...seemed at first like A cumbersome bit of old-fashioned gumshoe work. Soon after the U.S. military went into Afghanistan, the FBI, the CIA and military intelligence began collecting fingerprints of al-Qaeda operatives and members of other international terrorist groups. They scoured caves and safe houses in Afghanistan and Pakistan and sought records from police and security services worldwide. Thousands of prints were digitized and entered into a classified database, along with names, aliases, mug shots, addresses, associates, descriptions of scars and, occasionally, DNA data...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Alien Dragnet | 1/20/2003 | See Source »

...Year's Day, Mohammed Asghar, a jeweler in Lahore, Pakistan, told reporters that one of the five snapshots on the FBI website was his. "I don't know who misused my travel documents. I don't know how my picture reached the hands of the FBI," Asghar said. He admitted using forged documents two months ago in a failed attempt to travel to Britain, but he may be the victim of identity theft. And he is probably not the only one, according to FBI officials. Other names on the list of 19 are known to be of people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shadows in Our Midst | 1/13/2003 | See Source »

Canadian authorities are expected to extradite Hamdani to New York to face the 1996 indictment and tell his new story to federal prosecutors. Sources say he passed polygraph tests in Canada. But some veterans remain skeptical. FBI agents who investigated his fake-passport operation in New York concluded, as one G-man put it, "You wouldn't trust him as far as you could throw him." Still, another FBI official says, "we really couldn't afford not to take this seriously. There were so many unknowns." Nevertheless, he adds, for all the FBI knew, the men in question might have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shadows in Our Midst | 1/13/2003 | See Source »

...said that other provisions of the PATRIOT Act—such as the FBI being able to subpoena individuals’ personal records—were more blatant violations...

Author: By Jessica E. Vascellaro, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: FAS Won’t Align Science Research Rules to Fed. Law | 1/13/2003 | See Source »

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