Posted on 06/06/2002 10:25:49 PM PDT by kattracks
Edited on 07/12/2004 3:54:33 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
A veteran FBI agent, who complained that senior bureau executives mishandled a pre-September 11 probe by field agents of terrorism suspect Zacarias Moussaoui, yesterday said a "climate of fear" inside the FBI had inhibited aggressive investigations.
Agent Coleen Rowley, who outlined her concerns last month in a letter to FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III, told the Senate Judiciary Committee that the FBI was bogged down by an "ever-growing bureaucracy" with multiple layers of senior executives in critical decision-making positions.
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