"It would be inappropriate to make any comment. However, it is important to add that Director Mueller has stated the FBI will not tolerate any form of retribution against any employees and that the Bureau strives to treat every person fairly and professionally," the FBI said in a statement."
Actually the FBI is famous for retaliating against any insider who points out deficiencies or failures of the FBI. Recently the 9/11 agent whistleblowers, the translator who pointed out spying in her section and allegations about alleged Hastert bribery by the Turks and so on. Retaliation is an inherent phase of the FBI culture and will continue to impede the FBI's ability to effectively carry out their missions of fighting crime and terror. David Bier http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/terror_fbi Senators Push Probe of Claims Against FBI 1 hour, 50 minutes ago Three senators want the Justice Department to investigate claims that the FBI retaliated against an Arab-American agent by passing him over for top counterterrorism jobs despite his expertise. Sens. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, urged the Justice Department's inspector general to determine whether the FBI denied a promotion to agent Bassem Youssef after Youssef complained about FBI management to another member of Congress, Rep. Frank Wolf (news, bio, voting record), R-Va. Specter is chairman of the Judiciary Committee, and Leahy is the panel's senior Democrat. In a joint letter this week to Inspector General Glenn Fine, the senators warned that "retaliation for such disclosures sends a chilling message to all employees and thus prevents both the (FBI) director and Congress from receiving valuable information necessary to run and oversee the bureau effectively." Fine's office said it was reviewing the senators' request. Youssef, considered by some to be one of the FBI's most accomplished counterterrorism agents before the September 2001 attacks, has separately filed a discrimination lawsuit. In a deposition related to the lawsuit, Deputy Assistant Director John Lewis said he was shocked over Youssef's decision to complain to FBI Director Robert Mueller during a meeting in Wolf's office. "To put the director of the FBI in that position, to show him that lack of courtesy, to surprise him with a member of Congress in my judgment is absolutely outrageous," Lewis told Youssef's lawyer during questioning in May 2005. "It shows a tremendous disloyalty to the director." The bureau said Mueller does not tolerate retribution but otherwise declined to comment on the letter by senators, citing the pending litigation. "It would be inappropriate to make any comment. However, it is important to add that Director Mueller has stated the FBI will not tolerate any form of retribution against any employees and that the Bureau strives to treat every person fairly and professionally," the FBI said in a statement. -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
