Probing or Protecting?

Newsweek, July, 2002 by -Michael Isikoff

How tough will the House-Senate intelligence panel investigating the 9-11 attacks be on the FBI and CIA? Questions are being raised about Thomas A. Kelley, a former FBI deputy general counsel who is overseeing the panel's probe into the bureau's performance. NEWSWEEK has learned that Sen. Charles Grassley, an FBI critic, recently wrote panel leaders about Kelley's role. For years, Kelley was the FBI's point man for outside inquiries into the bureau's conduct at Ruby Ridge and Waco. In that capacity, sources say, Kelley was twice referred for Justice Department disciplinary inquiries after investigators complained he was obstructing probes. In one 1996 incident, sources say, Kelley allegedly told one investigator seeking documents about Ruby Ridge that it was "not a good career...

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