Word: hooverness
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...investigation of the Sept. 11 attacks was barely under way when the grumbling started about the bureau's treatment of local law enforcement. Such complaints have dogged the place since the days of J. Edgar Hoover, but today there is more riding on the issue. Local police and sheriffs say they are eager to be the eyes and ears and legs for the bureau's overburdened agents. Michael J. Chitwood is chief of police in Portland, Me., near the motel where two of the hijackers, suspected ringleader Mohamed Atta and Abdulaziz Alomari, spent the night before the attacks. Chitwood complains...
...enforcement groups. He promised them that all 56 FBI field offices would establish joint terrorism task forces with local law enforcement. Just 35 offices have them now. He proposed allowing several members of local law-enforcement agencies access to the Strategic Information and Operations Center inside the FBI's Hoover Building. "To have that opened up to us is a major step," says Bruce Glasscock, president of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, who attended the meeting after calling Mueller with his complaints last week...
...informed decisions on whether to grant visas. Things become even more complicated when the bureau has to deal with the CIA. The separation between foreign and domestic intelligence gathering is a long tradition of the U.S. security apparatus. In part this was a remedy for the excesses of the Hoover-era bureau, which routinely kept files on political dissidents and infiltrated peaceful protest groups...
...espionage was a clumsy toddler at first. (Some think it has not improved much with age and astronomical budgets.) F.D.R., magician and dissembler, improvised spy systems formal and informal. In the official line, he had the military's separate intelligence-gathering operations and the help of byzantine J. Edgar Hoover at the FBI. In 1940 the Army's Signal Intelligence Service, quartered at Arlington Hall in the northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, broke the top-secret Japanese Purple code, meaning, as Persico says, that with the decryptions, dubbed Magic, "the Tokyo foreign office might as well have placed F.D.R...
...each agency's counterterrorism division comes from the other one, and joint FBI-CIA operations have had a few notable successes. The real problem, says Representative Saxby Chambliss, a Republican who chairs the House Subcommittee on International Terrorism and Homeland Security, is that the heroes of Langley and the Hoover building won't share information with agencies like the INS and the Federal Aviation Administration--both vital to Ridge's mission. "The dialogue between federal agencies," says Chambliss, "is not at the level that it should...