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...Current FBI director Robert Mueller, who came on the job right after Labor Day, signaled his intentions to keep Pickard on by naming him the "case agent" - the top investigator - on the so-called PENTTBOM investigation...
...Since September 11, Pickard has joined Mueller every morning at dawn as the director prepares to brief Attorney General John Ashcroft and President Bush. For the rest of the day and into the evening, Pickard presides over the FBI's Special Investigations and Operations Center, the crisis command center staffed by representatives of the bureau and 32 other federal agencies...
Already on edge, Americans went to bed Monday night with yet another warning hanging over our collective head. Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller issued the warning late Monday afternoon, telling the nation there was a "credible" threat of new terrorist attacks over the next seven days...
...There was some debate as to whether it was a good idea to release these warnings again. Officials got trashed by police departments after the October 11th warning because there was very little lead time and most people had no warning at all. That happened again yesterday; Ashcroft and Mueller made the announcement just before the national news...
Agents have their reasons for being closemouthed--and not just, as their critics often suspect, so they can hog the credit and hype their conviction numbers. For one thing, agents are bound by stringent rules outlawing disclosure of grand-jury evidence. By late last week Mueller had met in Washington with representatives of local law-enforcement groups. He promised them that all 56 FBI field offices would establish joint terrorism task forces with local law enforcement. Just 35 offices have them now. He proposed allowing several members of local law-enforcement agencies access to the Strategic Information and Operations Center...