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...happy to forgo some personal closure for more practical rewards. Both the FBI and the CIA will now have a chance to debrief Hanssen as to some tantalizing gaps in their knowledge of what secrets he passed and how he passed them, particularly the period after 1991 when the KGB file on him ends abruptly without explanation, and the period between 1999 and his arrest in February...
...corners as Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and CIA chief George Tenet and would clearly prefer the back-room route from here on out. For one thing, a trial would have forced prosecutors to put on the witness stand the FBI's prize source - a Russian who stole Hanssen's KGB file from Moscow Center, as Russian intelligence headquarters is known, and handed it over to the bureau. For another, the National Security Agency would have had to reveal highly classified details about its communications intercept capabilities in order to show exactly why the secrets Hanssen sold were so damaging...
...happy to forgo some personal closure for more practical rewards. Both the FBI and the CIA will now have a chance to debrief Hanssen as to some tantalizing gaps in their knowledge of what secrets he passed and how he passed them, particularly the period after 1991 when the KGB file on him ends abruptly without explanation, and the period between 1999 and his arrest in February...
...corners as Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and CIA chief George Tenet and would clearly prefer the back-room route from here on out. For one thing, a trial would have forced prosecutors to put on the witness stand the FBI's prize source - a Russian who stole Hanssen's KGB file from Moscow Center, as Russian intelligence headquarters is known, and handed it over to the bureau. For another, the National Security Agency would have had to reveal highly classified details about its communications intercept capabilities in order to show exactly why the secrets Hanssen sold were so damaging...
Bush has discussed Putin with world leaders ranging from Britain's Tony Blair to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. And he's been briefed by CIA experts on the way the former KGB officer charms foreign leaders in meetings such as this. Putin will be ready to banter on everything from the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty to Bush's love of baseball. He may even make some private small talk in English in an attempt to ease the tension of their first meeting. In that sense, at least, the Russian is a bit like Bush...