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Last week FBI director Louis Freeh signaled his intent to cooperate with both investigations and to restore order and morale within the FBI. In a move that took a heavy personal toll, Freeh demoted deputy director Larry Potts, 47, a 21-year veteran long under fire for his supervision of the Waco and Ruby Ridge sieges. Freeh and Potts had been close friends and confidants since 1990, when they were detailed to Atlanta and successfully prosecuted a murderous mail bomber. They soon became the FBI's odd couple. Freeh was the steely, immaculately tailored prosecutor whom colleagues respected and feared...
Director Louis Freeh removed his close friend and aide, Larry Potts, from the FBI's No. 2 post after concluding that Potts' effectiveness was undermined by the continuing controversy over his role in a bloody 1992 standoff with white separatist Randy Weaver in Idaho. At issue is whether Potts approved a much criticized shoot-on-sight order. The removal came just as the House is to start hearings on another operation Potts helped manage: the assault on the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas...
...from New York to Los Angeles have enjoyed sizable decreases in crime in general and murder rates in particular. Part of the explanation is that federal agencies like the FBI and Drug Enforcement Administration have shrunk their headquarters' staff to attach more agents to local police. FBI Director Louis Freeh credits ``safe streets'' campaigns in 117 communities for reducing crime rates by breaking up street gangs...
...inexplicable,'' says Attorney General Janet Reno. Her prescription: more secure facilities for violent youthful offenders and follow-up after they are released. ``We're going to have to support them and assist them in getting a job,'' she says. ``Otherwise it's going to be a revolving door.'' Freeh recommends focusing on the increasing number of children brought up in what he calls ``no-parent homes.'' In 2005, says Freeh, many of these neglected youngsters will be angry teenagers who ``will literally be killing people...
...exclusive interview with Time, FBI director Louis Freeh insisted that his bureau took pains to ensure that Fitzpatrick did not push Shabazz into a crime. Throughout the seven-month investigation, he says, Fitzpatrick's FBI handlers were overseen by bureau supervisors and the U.S. Attorney's office, whose reports were sent East for further review. Freeh said he was ``aware'' of the investigation though he ``did not review all the details.'' Nevertheless, ``I'm satisfied that we were well within...