Inspector General Report: FBI still vulnerable to insider espionage

[TexasLawyer]

Source: Xinhua

Report: FBI still vulnerable to insider espionage

2007-10-02 04:15:00

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has failed in fully implementing its security measures against espionage from within, said a report on Monday.

The 41-page report by the Office of Inspector General (IG) of the Justice Department said that FBI had not enforced some internal monitoring procedures to track its employees' suspicious behavior as IG recommended, including creating a central repository to collect and analyze bizarre.

The report also found that the FBI, partly due to faulty technology, has yet to establish a program to consistently review suspicious employees to create full case files on them. "We believe the FBI must be vigilant in attempting to deter and detect the internal penetrations that have occurred in the past and that may occur in the future," said the report.

The IG started the investigation on FBI internal security following former FBI officer Robert Hanssen was discovered as a spy for a foreign country over two decades.



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[Trillo]

1. Hmm, veiled reference to the FBI investigating Blackwater? n/t

[nebenaube]

2. hmmm

Why is it that I actually like the ideal of suspicious FBI agents looking at other FBI agent's cases?