Criminal proceedings against two FBI Special Agents

[Matthew X]

"If the Russian hackers are sentenced on the basis of information obtained 
by the Americans through hacking, that will imply the future ability of 
U.S. secret services to use illegal methods in the collection of 
information in Russia and other countries."
--The Russian FSB (who have begun criminal proceedings against two FBI 
Special Agents)
24 year veteran hits the booz...Counterterror Chief to Retire From FBI Post
.....Dale L. Watson, a 24-year veteran who has overseen the FBI's 
investigations into the Sept. 11 attacks and the anthrax mailings, will 
leave his post as executive assistant director to take a global security 
job with Booz Allen Hamilton, a McLean-based management consulting firm, 
officials said yesterday.....(Washington Post, 16 Aug 02)
Shootout at the CIA corral...Man Who Shot 5 at CIA Loses On Appeal
A three-judge panel denied an appeal yesterday by Mir Aimal Kasi, who is 
facing a death sentence for the 1993 shootings outside CIA headquarters 
that left two people dead and three wounded....(Washington Post, 16 Aug 02)
Dale,stale...Antiterror Chief Quits F.B.I., Which Gets New Deputy
......In announcing Mr. Watson's retirement, Mr. Mueller also said that he 
had selected Bruce J. Gebhardt as the bureau's new deputy director, its No. 
2 post. Mr. Gebhardt, who is the executive assistant director for criminal 
investigations at the F.B.I., worked closely with Mr. Mueller in the late 
1990's in San Francisco when Mr. Mueller was United States attorney for 
Northern California and Mr. Gebhardt was in charge of the F.B.I.'s San 
Francisco field office......(New York Times, 16 Aug 02)
FBI Counterterrorism Chief Leaves
The FBI counterterrorism chief who helped lead the government's efforts to 
prevent another devastating attack on America is stepping down....(AP, 15 
Aug 02)
You cant break the law to catch lawbreakers,can you?
FBI agent charged with hacking
In a first in the rapidly evolving field of cyberspace law, Russia’s 
counterintelligence service on Thursday filed criminal charges against an 
FBI agent it says lured two Russian hackers to the United States, then 
illegally seized evidence against them by downloading data from their 
computers in Chelyabinsk, Russia.....(MSNBC, 16 Aug 02)
FSB Calls FBI Agent an Illegal Hacker
Hacking the hackers is a crime, according to an FSB officer who has charged 
the FBI with using illegal methods to snare two young Russians who were 
arrested in the United States......(Moscow Times, 16 Aug 02)
FSB raps FBI for hacking Russian hackers
Russia’s domestic intelligence service has accused an FBI official of an 
unauthorized incursion into Russian computer networks in an attempt to 
procure evidence proving the guilt of two Russian hackers charged by the US 
on over 20 counts of computer-related crime, the Federal Security Service 
(FSB) said on Thursday......(Gazeta.Ru, 16 Aug 02)
http://www.cicentre.com/
One stop spook shop.
Japan readying for launch of 1st spy satellites
Japan's plan to set up a system of reconnaissance satellites to monitor 
military movements in East Asia will get off the ground in November, when 
the Cabinet Satellite Information Center starts operations of the system's 
nerve center in Tokyo.....(Japan Today, 16 Aug 02)
Bullets and leaks at PM’s investigation
FURTHER controversy surrounded the committee investigating the past secret 
service activities of Prime Minister Péter Medgyessy, with László Balogh, 
its chairman, announcing he had discovered a live bullet in his office, and 
Hungarian newspaper Népszabadság alleging that committee experts Sebestyén 
Gorka and Gábor Kisely had been fingered by the secret services as 
potential security risks.....(Budapest Sun, 15 Aug 02)
Nobody does it better?
.......You can’t enter a multiplex without finding some secret agent, 
undercover operative or impossibly cool superhero who doesn’t owe a debt to 
our man with the Martini and Walther PPK......(London Times, 15 Aug 02)
Section 25,paragraph 5,need to know.