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Clarke wasn't the only person having a bad year. In New York City, John O'Neill led the FBI's National Security Division, commanding more than 100 experienced agents. By spring they were all overloaded. O'Neill's boss, Assistant FBI Director Barry Mawn, spent part of his time pleading with Washington for more agents, more linguists, more clerical help. He got nowhere. O'Neill was a legend both in New York, where he hung out at famous watering holes like Elaine's, and in the counterterrorism world. Since 1995, when he helped coordinate the arrest in Pakistan...
...blissless ignorance, Clarke and Tenet waited for the meeting of the Principals. But the odd little ways of Washington had one more trick to play. Heeding the pleas from the FBI's New York City office, where Mawn and O'Neill were desperate for new linguists and analysts, acting FBI director Pickard asked the Justice Department for some $50 million for the bureau's counterterrorism program. He was turned down. In August, a bureau source says, he appealed to Attorney General Ashcroft. The reply was a flat...
...enough for three. But which three? Smart money says Mueller will elevate Assistant Director Dale Watson, currently head of counter-terrorism, to the counterterrorism/national security slot. The task of overseeing criminal investigations - most of the bureau's work - could go to current Assistant Director Reuben Garcia, Assistant Director Barry Mawn, now head of the flagship New York Office, Bruce Gephardt, the special agent in charge in San Francisco, with whom Mueller bonded when he was U.S. Attorney there - or another field commander...
...what with 7,000 FBI employees and countless state and local police officers following some 63,232 leads in the case. FBI Deputy Director Tom Pickard, a key figure in the case against the 1993 World Trade Center bombers, and the bureau's top man in New York, Barry Mawn, are running the investigation from Washington and two secret locations in Manhattan. Detectives and intelligence agents around the world are pitching in. The flow of data is crushing; every day brings new leads--and new dead ends. But answers to some of the most important questions are beginning to emerge...
...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...