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Changes at the FBI Keeping a promise to increase the diversity in the fbi's upper ranks, Director Louis Freeh promoted a woman, a Hispanic man and an African-American man to assistant directorships at the agency...
CHART: NOT AVAILABLE CREDIT: Source: FBI's Crime in the United States CAPTION: BLOOD RELATIONS: MURDER IN THE FAMILY
...about Challenger came as a surprise. But the findings did not come easily. Although NASA had generally been cooperative with the commission, its Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., which supervised the rocket boosters, and Morton Thiokol, the contractor that manufactures them, were less so. It took an FBI agent working for the commission to discover, while perusing papers at Thiokol, that a ''flight constraint'' had been declared on July 10, 1985, for the booster-joint seal--and then routinely waived for seven successive launches, including Challenger's last one. The report called this ''a strange sequence.'' The commission...
...Hamdan made himself useful as a mechanic and driver. He ultimately ended up serving bin Laden himself as a chauffeur and bodyguard, following the sheik when he relocated for security reasons to Tarnak Farms, a walled al-Qaeda compound 30 minutes outside Kandahar. According to both al-Bahri and FBI interrogator Ali Soufan, Hamdan had bin Laden's trust but was not a member of his inner circle. Both men describe Hamdan as deferential, eager to please. Their accounts differ, though, when it comes to Hamdan's level of involvement with al-Qaeda. Al-Bahri characterized him as a circumstantial...
...Hamdan was flown to Guantánamo Bay, where he became detainee No. 149. Soon after, he met Soufan, the FBI's foremost expert on al-Qaeda, who interrogated Hamdan repeatedly until December 2003, when President Bush chose him from among thousands of detainees in U.S. custody to be the first Arab defendant in the military tribunals...