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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Five are of course sympathetic - it's their investment too. But legal whack-a-mole is not a business model, and the laws of physics would seem to prevent the encryption of sound. Which means the future of music may end up looking a lot like an infinitely large FM radio - free, demand-based and advertiser-supported...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The End of the Line for Royalties? | 3/6/2001 | See Source »

...with Moscow until late 1999, when he just as abruptly resumed as before. In hindsight, FBI officials believe the reason is obvious. In 1992, the FBI and CIA assembled a "backroom" team to figure out why a series of operations had been blown. They suspected a high-level mole. Eventually their stealthy investigations led them to CIA turncoat Aldrich Ames in 1994. Though the backroom hunt was a closely held secret, the ever curious Hanssen might have figured it out from stray details. Even after Ames' arrest, the mole ferreting went on, leading to the 1996 arrest of CIA employee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The FBI Spy | 3/5/2001 | See Source »

CATCHING A MOLE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The FBI Spy | 3/5/2001 | See Source »

...still digging, since none of the previous arrests explained all the blown operations of the '80s and '90s. Not too long after "B" resumed contact with the Russians, the analysts concluded that the failures were caused by leaks from FBI files. They were sure the FBI harbored another mole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The FBI Spy | 3/5/2001 | See Source »

...William Webster will save the agency from a nasty probe. The proud FBI hates the very idea of any outside control or oversight. After Ames' treachery was discovered, Justice Department Inspector General Michael Bromwich produced a scathing review of the bureau's inaction and confusion when a highly placed mole was first suspected. Freeh enlisted Webster, charges a former Justice Department official, "as a pre-emptive strike to another inspector general investigation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The FBI Spy | 3/5/2001 | See Source »

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