MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD

Event: Interview of]... ....k~iami field office, FBI

Type of event: Interview

Date: September 30, 2003

Prepared by: Christine Healey

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Team Number: 6

Location: Miami field office

Participants: Healey, Jacobson;,.. representative of Office of General Counsel, FBI

Note: This is a SU~?fY··m:~morandum.

1. rlw~' a cop for 14 years. He is now on the T-4 squad. .

2. ~ two sources that came from the Pentbom investigation.
3. He uses the same techniques as were used in a preliminary investigation but
doesn't have deadlines.
4. Miami seems to be about running down every lead.
5. CIA does not seem.all that concerned with being helpful.
6. He was not sure how many leads have come from the intelligence community.
7. He has not gotten leads from HQ.
8. There has not been enough in-service training, most people go out on their own
and get books.
9. There is not that much difference in what you do in a national security case
compared to what you do in a criminal case. He agrees that international
terrorism was not very aggressive in the past pursuing terrorists with criminal
techniques. You have a much better chance to disrupt terrorists if you find they
have broken the law. .
10. Sources are tricky. What makes them good (they are bad guys) makes them
dangerous.
11. Administrative red-tape is terrible for both criminal and national security cases.
12. He has the sense that headquarters is much more concerned about cases than they
ever were before. Sometimes this leads to matters being briefed and people
getting spun up too soon.
13. FBI has changed. There is less emphasis on criminal cases. There used to be 6-8
drug cases, now there are two.
14. Problems of the FBI: never-ending paperwork; he does not see the need for
AUSA involvement, the computer system is terrible.
15. He thinks the FBI is doing a good job of filtering things out and getting the real
stuff to people.