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...flowed in from the field offices, the archivist realized some of it had never been put in the main case file and shared with defense lawyers. Not until Tuesday were McVeigh's lawyers notified--and even then FBI officials waited two more days to analyze the documents before telling Freeh; they were ashen as they left his office. He was, says one insider, "absolutely tear-ass." Bush and Ashcroft learned Thursday as well, and immediately after Ashcroft's Friday press conference, officials from the Justice Department Inspector General's office descended on the bureau to investigate what had gone wrong...
...their secret informants that they resist sharing information up and down the food chain. That need-to-know mentality has suffused the whole bureau; agents investigating Wen Ho Lee didn't even know that he and his wife had been paid FBI informants a few years earlier. During Louis Freeh's eight-year tenure (he is stepping down next month), the bureau was often at war with the Clinton Justice Department, largely over Janet Reno's hands-off approach to the serial Clinton scandals. Congressional Republicans cheered Freeh on--and gave him little oversight. There was plenty of fresh young...
According to the Congressional testimony yesterday of FBI Director Louis J. Freeh, nothing in the newly discovered documents is material to the question of McVeigh’s guilt. But such near-mistakes are anything but rare in the American legal system. In 1981, Clifford Henry Bowen was sentenced to death in Oklahoma despite 12 alibi witnesses after prosecutors failed to turn over exculpatory evidence. Similar stories could be told for 16 other Americans in the last 25 years, all of whom were convicted after exculpatory evidence was withheld from the defense, either in error or intentionally. In a sense...
...Elaine Shannon: Anything we say at this point is pure speculation, of course. But Freeh has a very able deputy, and I think in the end he will leave. Ashcroft did not look happy when he had to go on television and explain what happened in the McVeigh investigation - I think the Justice Department would just as soon see Freeh go and let everybody move on. No one?s going to be begging him to stick around...
...there anything remarkable about Freeh?s testimony before a House Appropriations subcommittee on Wednesday...