Vipers Turn on One Another: "Justice" Dept Investigates FBI

Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit

[Since the Constitution-Busting FBI is nominally under the control
of the US Dept. of "Justice," it seems that the pigs are now investigating
themselves. Unless they have very strong stomachs, they'd better not look 
too closely.--ny transfer]

Sunday March 11 3:10 PM ET (via Yahoo)

Justice Department Investigating FBI in Spy Case

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft said on Sunday he
had ordered an investigation of security measures taken at the FBI amid
allegations a 25-year veteran agent sold secrets to Moscow for 15 years.

"I have asked the inspector general of the Justice Department to conduct an
investigation," Ashcroft said on NBC's "Meet the Press" news program of
the allegations against FBI veteran and counter-intelligence expert, Robert
Hanssen.

The inspector general probe follows Ashcroft's announcement earlier this
month that the FBI would expand the use of polygraph tests and more closely
audit access to computers and other information. At that time, former FBI
and CIA chief William Webster was called on to review what changes should be
made at the bureau.

Hanssen has been accused of spying for Moscow since 1985 in exchange for
$1.4 million in money and diamonds. He allegedly gave Moscow secrets that
included names of double agents and U.S. electronic surveillance methods,
revelations that severely damaged national security, U.S. officials have
said.

"I have instructed the -- requested the inspector general to do this
investigation with a view toward cooperating where appropriate, going beyond
or otherwise following avenues that might not otherwise be determined
productive avenues for examination by Judge Webster," Ashcroft said on
ABC's "This Week."

Separately, after the latest school shootings in Santee, California,
Ashcroft confirmed on the ABC news program that the Justice Department
already has under way a gun task force focusing on the enforcement of U.S.
gun laws, a plan that had been announced in February.

 
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