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...fact, many hope Bush will consider Pickard for the post. The 51-year-old is liked within the bureau because, while his standards are no lower than Freeh's, he is more, well, human. "He really listens to people," says Barry Mawn, the assistant director in charge of the New York Field office. And, Mawn adds, "he's no yes man. He often was the one to give the director bad news, but he didn't tell him what he thought he wanted to hear...
...into the uproar over the Tim McVeigh execution delay, we encountered FBI deputy director Tom Pickard and terrorism division chief Dale Watson trudging glumly across Pennsylvania Avenue from the Justice Department to the Hoover building. These two had had the unhappy task of informing Louis Freeh about the eleventh-hour discovery of a few thousand stray documents in the McVeigh case. We remarked that they didn't look too bloody for a couple of guys who had been at ground zero when the Director went off like a bushel basket of grenades...
...Pickard's open manner may solve one of the bureau's worst management problems. Many agents respected Freeh for his integrity, but his penchant for killing messengers and turning minor screw-ups into felonies earned him the nickname, "The Queen of Hearts" Not surprisingly, bad news sometimes didn't get to the Director until it had festered to really rotten. Case in point: the McVeigh mess, which began to crop up last January but which was kept from Freeh until it was leaking to reporters...
...Pickard is considered more approachable than the remote Freeh. "I never met anybody who was afraid of Tom," says former Assistant Director Lou Schiliro, who worked closely with Pickard when both were senior managers in the New York field office dealing with the TWA 800 tragedy. "He's a kind man, a very genuine person...
...take an intelligence analyst to figure out that an organization "supported and supervised" by Iran would not attack the world's most powerful military in a traditionally hostile neighboring country unless someone pretty powerful in Tehran had signed off on the strike. And although outgoing FBI director Louis Freeh had accused the Clinton Administration of soft-pedaling on the case in order to avoid crossing swords with Iran's emerging reformist leadership, no Iranian officials were named in the indictment. Freeh insists the reason was insufficient evidence rather than any geopolitical squeamishness...