Naemanson. You trivialise what was being said, a cheap attempt at demonising the responders. There is a big difference between unleashing the FBI and what I suggested as giving them some tools to respond to the current threat. Unconventional warfare requires greater liason and cohesion of the various civil and military agencies. Bureaucracy can be painfully debilitating and destructive to this process. some mandates (US military) will require significant changes to allow it to respond when requested. These powers are to be held in check by the elected officials of your country. If you have no faith in the ability of your military, and elected officials to govern, I think you should become a refugee and leave.

FBI agent says bureaucracy hurt war on terrorism Last Updated Fri, 07 Jun 2002 11:26:55 WASHINGTON - An FBI agent told U.S. politicians Thursday that bureaucracy is hampering the war on terrorism and some agents are so afraid of criticism from headquarters that they aren't doing their jobs properly.

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Colleen Rowley Coleen Rowley has become the best-known whistleblower in the United States since she wrote a 13-page letter to her boss last month, accusing FBI bureaucrats of fumbling opportunities that could have prevented the terror attacks last September.

"I really do care about the FBI. I've invested almost half my life in it," she told a Senate judiciary committee.

Last August, her request to investigate Zacharias Moussaoui was ignored by FBI headquarters.

Moussaoui was supposed to have been the 20th hijacker in the Sept. 11 terror attack. He's in jail awaiting trial.

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Earlier in the day, FBI Director Robert Mueller told the committee that the failure to act on Rowley's memo was one of the reasons the FBI has to be shaken up from top to bottom.

"The need for change was apparent even before Sept. 11. It has become more urgent since then,'' he said.

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And he agreed the agency's structure is a problem. "The bureaucracy is frustrating," he said.

Mueller said the FBI needs to devote more of its resources to prevention. He has announced a major restructuring of the agency.

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