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Some things have changed. Under Director Robert Mueller, who took over the FBI a week before 9/11, the bureau has made counterterrorism one of its top three priorities and tried to get its 11,881 agents to do something they were for years warned against: work proactively. Meanwhile, the bureau has increased the number of counterterrorism agents from 1,344 to 2,835, counterterrorism analysts from 218 to 406 and linguists from 555 to 1,204. Mueller has made a priority of finding people who don't want to wear a badge or a gun and are simply good thinkers...
Other FBI experts echoed this, saying Mueller has the right idea but adding that the layers of agents and bureaucracy beneath him are reluctant to follow his direction. The bureau has been slow to recruit sources in Islamic circles in the U.S., and a top FBI official told the 9/11 panel that while the FBI knows "10 times" more about Islamic militants in the U.S. than it did before 9/11, "its knowledge is at about 20 on a scale of 1 to 100." Despite its recent hiring boom, the bureau still lacks sufficient Arabic, Urdu, Farsi and Pashto linguists...
...Democrat, told TIME that he and like-minded panelists intend to press ahead with questions on "what occurred [inside the White House] between Aug. 6 and Sept. 11." Panel members will probably ask why the President didn't cut his vacation short or order emergency meetings with Robert Mueller, then the new FBI director. "Once you see the PDB, given what you already know," says Ben-Veniste, "you'll have to make a determination of whether it was exclusively historical or whether there was information there ... indicating an attack...
According to FBI sources, Mueller, who took charge just before that September morning, will testify that he has transformed the bureau, replacing nearly all senior and middle managers, hiring linguists and analysts, and placing top priority on terrorism prevention. A new computer system to foster information sharing goes online this summer. "We'll be able to know what we know," says an agent...
...work. ?If they're doing it, they're doing it in such a superficial or under-the-radar fashion that that it did not become apparent to the panel,? despite testimony from the likes of Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge, Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller, the source added. ?The Department of Homeland Security is focusing on today and the crisis of the moment. But who's looking at the broader issues of economic security and societal stability...