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...director Robert Mueller and top Justice officials have spent days debating whether to move for another postponement. Meanwhile, Hanssen is undergoing his most intensive probing yet, at the hands of a CIA damage assessment team that includes psychiatrists and interrogation specialists practiced at dealing with traitors' complex psychological subterfuges. Hanssen is said to have lost weight and appears more stooped than ever, but sources say flashes of the old arrogance show: he has complained recently that the press is overplaying his sexual obsessions - by reporting on his pornographic writings, which he posted...
...prompted a series of White House meetings and secure teleconferences among top Bush appointees, including Attorney General John Ashcroft, Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, CIA director George Tenet and homeland security director Tom Ridge, as well as senior career officials at the Pentagon, FBI and CIA. (FBI director Bob Mueller was in San Francisco; executive assistant director Dale Watson and counter-terrorism division chief Pat D'Amuro represented the FBI at the White House sessions...
...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...
...Immediately after Hanssen was arrested, 700 FBI employees were polygraphed, including Mueller himself. ("Nobody likes taking a polygraph," he told reporters. "I didn't particularly enjoy taking a polygraph.") Roughly 7 employees failed to pass the polygraphs. They haven't been fired or disciplined, but Senser says they are being subjected to further investigation. Now Mueller is considering ordering several thousand more FBI employees to go on the box. But he won't force preventive polygraphs on all 28,000 FBI employees, all of whom have at least Top Secret clearance, in part because he, like most career FBI executives...