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Published: 09/27/10

FBI Employees Cheated on Exams, Justice Department Report Finds

By  Christopher Weber - Politics Daily
FBI Employees Cheated on Exams, Justice Department Report Finds

As many as 200 FBI employees cheated on an exam judging their skills in criminal or national security operations, operational support and intelligence collection, a Justice Department investigation found. The DOJ inspector general report released Monday concludes that certain test takers used cheat sheets, some consulted with each other during the exam, and others "exploited a programming flaw to reveal the answers to the exam on their computers," Talking Points Memo first reported. The 51-question Domestic Investigations and Operations Guide (DIOG) generally takes about two hours to ...

Published: 09/22/10

FBI Surveillance of U.S. Advocacy Groups: Funny If It Weren't So Sad

By  Andrew Cohen - Politics Daily
FBI Surveillance of U.S. Advocacy Groups: Funny If It Weren't So Sad

It was the day after Thanksgiving -- Friday, Nov. 29, 2002 -- and things were slow at the FBI's Pittsburgh office. So slow, in fact, that an eager gumshoe, let's call him "Agent Dwight," seeking to score brownie points, asked his boss for an assignment. The supervisor, let's call him "Agent Michael," carelessly sent the probationary agent out to look for terrorism suspects at an anti-war protest in downtown Pittsburgh. The event had been organized by the Thomas Merton Center, a left-leaning political advocacy group. But there were no such suspects, at least at that time, and evidently no ...

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