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...Other top items on the to-do list: tightening access to the FBI's classified computer databases to prevent Hanssen-like freeform browsing. Already FBI director Bob Mueller has ordered up a full array of software safeguards, many of which hinge on the completion of the bureau's massively expensive Trilogy project, an information systems overhaul scheduled to go on line over the next several years. But Ken Senser, the assistant director for security, is moving faster: he has installed safeguards designed to pick up on activities as blatant as Hanssen's habit of running his name and spook slang...
...Webster commission is expected to recommend limiting highly sensitive files to those with a strong need-to-know - "role-based access," in FBI jargon. Mueller and Senser agree and have already reduced the number of FBI employees with access to any data bearing the above-Top-Secret classification of SCI (Sensitive Compartmentalized Information...
...crucial potential witness against Moussaoui is a Malaysian Islamic extremist in jail north of Kuala Lumpur on unrelated terrorism charges. FBI Director Bob Mueller traveled to Malaysia two weeks ago and offered local security officials FBI training and other incentives in exchange for access to the man. But the officials, upset because the Western press had described Malaysia as a staging base for the Sept. 11 attacks, rebuffed the FBI chief. Sources say Mueller is still optimistic that the Malaysians will come around and send the prisoner to the U.S. to testify against Moussaoui...
Forget career-switchers - these days the FBI is looking for younger, more technically proficient types. As part of his push to remake the FBI into a leaner, more agile and competitive agency, FBI chief Robert Mueller is trying to move away from the 30-year-old disgruntled former accountants or local police officers that traditionally populate each new class of agents. Instead, he's tilting toward younger specialists with intense knowledge of regions where terrorism flourishes or specialists in high end relational databases, computer security and computer forensics...
Insiders are worried that the bureau has become dangerously short of grizzled, crisis-hardened supervisors. "With the sensitive and complex investigations we do, whether you're dealing with counterintelligence or corruption or counterterrorism, you need real-world experience," says a respected veteran. But Mueller wants a fresh approach at the top and has ignored the committees that traditionally recommend promotions--and, critics say, perpetuate the old-boy network. Mueller has also shocked the troops by personally interviewing candidates for all upper-management and some key middle-management posts. Mueller loyalists say the ex-Marine handpicks young leaders whose passion...