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FBI Agents Cheat Tests to Stay Employed
Topic Started: Sep 27 2010, 05:07 PM (397 Views)
mynameis
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FBI agents cheated on exam using answer sheets - report
FBI HQ The FBI is being pressed to investigate further

FBI agents cheated on an internal exam by conferring, using crib sheets, and finding answers on computers, a Department of Justice probe has found.

Staff were required to take a test on their knowledge of new unified guidelines on domestic investigations.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11408859
Edited by mynameis, Sep 27 2010, 05:07 PM.
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Internal corruption is not a stranger to the FBI.

This was a post in response to a JREF belief that the FBI integrity was beyond repute.

The exchange developed around the planting of evidence at the Pentagon as that was the necessary conclusion from
accepting the North of Citgo eyewitness testimony.

BigAl at JREF
 
"I've seen nothing from you that explains how did someone deposit 140 tons of aircraft debris ..."
Miragememories at JREF
 
""I've seen nothing from you that explains how prior to your "deposited 140 tons of aircraft debris", 5 light poles were also "planted"?

Since your event supposedly occurred in partnership with the light poles which supposedly were knocked down earlier in the event's timeline, it is essential that they be satisfactorily explained before examining later events.

To do so, you have to discredit those 10 eyewitnesses.

Must I followup with some references to the FBI's less than stellar history?"
BigAl at JREF
 
"If your theory is true, that the FBI was part of a cover-up, then everyone was told what to say they would all need unique scripts a day in advance and stick to them. They would all agree in advance to participate in the crime of criminal cover-up.

All 7,000 of them."
Miragememories at JREF
 
"Must I followup with some references to the FBI's less than stellar history?'
BigAl at JREF
 
"Only if is relevant ...

Please post it."

Note: Some of this material provided by Wikipedia

The Federal Bureau of Investigation F.B.I.

Purpose: To protect and defend the United States against terrorist and foreign intelligence threats, to uphold and enforce the criminal laws of the United States, and to provide leadership and criminal justice services to federal, state, municipal, and international agencies and partners

F.B.I. Points of Interest

In the 1950s and 1960s, the FBI were actively engaged in influencing the activities of the burgeoning civil rights movement. As an example, in 1956, the head of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover, sent an open letter denouncing the civil rights leader Dr. T.R.M. Howard, a surgeon from Mississippi who had criticized FBI inaction in solving recent murders of George W. Lee, Emmett Till, and other blacks in the South.

Carl Rowan, a Washington Post journalist asserted in his 1991 memoirs, that the FBI had sent at least one anonymous letter to Martin Luther King Jr encouraging him to commit suicide. Though they found no evidence of criminal activity, the FBI actively targeted Martin Luther King Jr. The basis of Carl Rowan's assertions was that the FBI used tapes of King's sexual activities for blackmail.

In an operation the FBI called COINTELPRO (short for Counter-Intelligence program), the FBI actively investigated and disrupted dissident political organizations within the United States, including both militant and non-violent organizations, including the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, a leading civil rights organization.

In 1965, in order to protect an informant, the FBI allowed 4 innocent men to be convicted of murder. Three of the 4 were given death sentences (later repealed to life) and the 4th spent 3 decades in prison. In 2007, the convictions were over-turned when U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner found the bureau helped convict the four men of the March 1965 gangland murder of Edward "Teddy" Deegan. The U.S. Government was ordered to pay $100 million in damages to the four defendants.

As a result of the Abscam controversy in the the 1980s, Senate hearings examined undercover FBI operations where it was alleged that the FBI had entrapped public officials. As a result, a number of guidelines were issued to constrain FBI activities.

In the 1990s, it turned out that the fingerprint unit of the FBI's crime lab had repeatedly done shoddy work. In some cases, the technicians, given evidence that actually cleared a suspect, reported instead that it proved the suspect guilty. Many cases had to be reopened when this pattern of errors was discovered.

Moving on to 2001.

In February of 2001, a top FBI official, Robert Hanssen was caught spying for the Russians. Later revelations showed that his spying activities went back to 1979.

The FBI had a new Director, Robert Mueller, appointed one week before the 9/11 attacks.

The USA Patriot Act, signed into law on October 26, 2001, amplified the FBI's powers in wiretapping and monitoring Internet activity. Under this law, the FBI gained the power to search a house while its residents were not home, and not requiring them to notify the residents for several weeks afterwards.

In 2004, the 9/11 Commission Report stated that the FBI was partially to blame for not pursuing intelligence reports which could have prevented the September 11, 2001 attacks. In its most damning assessment, the report concluded that the country had "not been well served" by the agency and listed numerous recommendations for changes within the FBI. The FBI acceded to most of the recommendations, including oversight by the new Director of National Intelligence, some former members of the 9/11 Commission publicly criticized the FBI in October 2005, claiming it was resisting any meaningful changes.

In 2007, a report was issued by the Justice Department concerned about the FBI's "widespread and serious misuse" of national security letters. National Security Letters are a form of administrative subpoena used to demand records and data pertaining to individuals. The report said that between 2003 and 2005 the FBI had issued more than 140,000 national security letters, many involving people with no obvious connections to terrorism.

The Washington Post, on July 8, 2007 published excerpts from UCLA Professor Amy Zegart's book Spying Blind: The CIA, the FBI, and the Origins of 9/11. The article reported that government documents show the CIA and FBI missed 23 potential chances to disrupt the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The primary reasons for these failures included: agency cultures resistant to change and new ideas; inappropriate incentives for promotion; and a lack of cooperation between the FBI, CIA and the rest of the United States Intelligence Community. The article went on to also blame the FBI's decentralized structure which prevented effective communication and cooperation between different FBI offices. The article also claimed that the FBI has still not evolved into an effective counterterrorism or counterintelligence agency, due in large part to deeply ingrained cultural resistance to change within the FBI. For example, FBI personnel practices continue to treat all staff other than Special Agents as support staff, categorizing Intelligence Analysts alongside the FBI's auto mechanics and janitors.

This was rushed to press so to speak. There is much more out there.

MM
Edited by Miragememories, Oct 18 2010, 04:48 PM.
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