[Mitchell]

Perhaps off-topic, but here are two amusing facts I learned on the Batchelor-Alexander (WABC) show last night:
1. Louis Freeh did not like computers and his FBI offices did NOT have computers OR E-mail under his administration. (Mueller presently is having computers installed)

This is incredible. Can it really be true? This may explain a lot.

2. The snail-mail service on Capitol hill still is shut down. Offices are using Federal Express.

I've been told that grant applications to Federal agencies (like NSF and NIH) now have to be made either through their on-line system or via Federal Express. Apparently you can't even hand-deliver applications to NIH any more, because of security considerations. (People used to use hand delivery sometimes to get an application in just under the deadline.)

[Nogbad]

This is incredible. Can it really be true?

Batchelor and Alexander also found it hard to believe.

But the story now has been told
by two different guests
two nights in a row.

What we are learning about Freeh's administration
is incredible in every aspect.
He didn't like bad news
and anyone who gave him any got the axe.

Freeh took personal charge
of all major investigations
including such wonderful successes
such as the Jewell arrest
the Los Alamos problems,
etc. etc.

[Nogbad]

The sources for the story
(the FBI doesn’t have computers
or e-mail)
were Ronald Kessler
(“The Secret Life of the FBI”)
two nights ago,
and Henry Miller of the Hoover Institute
(last night).

According to Miller,
Mueller is now installing 1000’s
of Dell Computers
but until recently
communications with the CDC in Atlanta
regarding the Anthrax investigation
were done using Federal Express.

Perhaps this explains
why the Anthrax investigation has moved so slowly