Enemies: A History of the FBI (90 page)

11.
“I had never seen”:
Ruckelshaus speech to National Association of Former U.S. Attorneys, Oct. 3, 2009.

12.
“Felt—everybody’s to know”:
Nixon White House tapes, May 12, 1973.

13.
“a dangerous game we were playing”:
FBI Special Agent Nick Stames interview with John H. Mitchell, May 11, 1973, FBI/FOIA.

14.
“I don’t think a cop should run the Bureau”:
Nixon White House tapes, Oct. 25, 1971. There were strong rumors at the FBI that Nixon’s choice had come down to either Clarence Kelley or Bill Sullivan. The FBI’s Paul Daly said: “Kelley told me that when he went in to interview with the President … he sat beside Sullivan, and Sullivan went in first and came out, then he went in. And it was a very close call.” Nixon’s available presidential records do not confirm that Sullivan was signed in at the White House that day.

15.
“I was shocked by the wounds”:
Clarence M. Kelley and James Kirkpatrick Davis,
Kelley: The Story of an FBI Director
(Kansas City, Mo.: Andrews, McMeel & Parker, 1987), p. 116.

37.
H
OUSE OF
C
ARDS

  
1.
“The FBI engaged in a prolonged series”:
Socialist Workers Party v. Attorney General;
73 Civ. 3150; 642 F. Supp. 1357 (Southern District of New York).

  
2.
“sirens, endless streams of sirens”:
Hahn oral history, FBI/FBIOH.

  
3.
“It was done clandestinely”:
Dyson oral history, FBI/FBIOH.

  
4.
“Why not add the FBI?”:
Memorandum of Conversation, Oval Office, Jan. 4, 1975, Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.

  
5.
“The FBI may be the sexiest part of this”:
Memorandum of Conversation, White House, Feb. 20, 1975, GRFL.

  
6.
“designed for the Civil War era”:
Kelley to Attorney General, Aug. 7, 1974, FBI/FOIA.

  
7.
“warrantless searches”:
John C. Kenney, Acting Assistant Attorney General, filing in
U.S. v. Ehrlichman
, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, May 9, 1975.

  
8.
a die-hard believer in the Bureau:
Healy oral history, FBI/FBIOH.

  
9.
“the long line of Attorneys General”:
Church Committee,
Federal Bureau of Investigation
, at 1–2 (statement of Chairman Frank Church).

10.
“government monitoring”:
Testimony of Attorney General Edward H. Levi, FBI Oversight: Hearings before the Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights of the House Committee on the Judiciary, April 6, 1976.

11.
“Nobody wants to work terrorism”:
Dyson oral history, FBI/FBIOH.

38.
“A
STATE OF CONTINUAL DANGER
”

  
1.
“knowledgeably, knowingly, intentionally deceived”:
Kelley transcript,
Meet the Press
, Aug. 8, 1976.

  
2.
“very little bad news”:
Kelley and Davis,
Kelley: The Story of an FBI Director
, pp. 39–40.

  
3.
“an FBI agent appeared at my door”:
Edward H. Levi, address to Los Angeles County Bar Association, Nov. 18, 1976.

  
4.
“You’re going to have to let me think”:
Daly oral history, FBI/FBIOH.

  
5.
“We don’t ask our agents to squeal”:
Kelley news conference, July 14, 1975, FBI/FOIA/Black Bag Jobs file, Vol. 13, p. 82.

  
6.
“Dear Clarence”:
Felt to Kelley, personal communication, June 20, 1974, FBI/FOIA/Felt file, Vol. 10, p. 169.

  
7.
A man’s home is his castle:
Miller oral history, FBI/FBIOH.

  
8.
“Safety from external danger”:
Alexander Hamilton,
The Federalist
no. 8.

  
9.
“One of the things that disturbs me”:
Kelley confirmation hearings, Senate Judiciary Committee, June 19, 1973.

10.
“The superhuman image”:
Kelley public statement, FBI headquarters, Aug. 11, 1976.

11.
“a crippled and beleaguered FBI”:
Kelley public statement, FBI headquarters, Aug. 11, 1976.

12.
“He had these steely blue eyes”:
Boynton oral history, FBI/FBIOH.

13.
“do the work”:
Webster oral history, Miller Center of Public Affairs, presidential oral history program, Aug. 21, 2002.

14.
“to pretend that we have a charter”:
Webster oral history, Miller Center.

15.
“What was missing”:
Webster oral history, FBI/FBIOH.

16.
“a bastard godchild”:
Ault interview, FBI/FBIOH.

17.
“I had no idea”:
Mason oral history, FBI/FBIOH.

18.
he was one of the very few:
During the 1980s and 1990s, the Bureau wasted well over $1 billion on computer systems that never worked. Among the first of these failed technologies was a 1980s database called the Terrorist Information System. It was supposed to provide instant readouts on 200,000 people and 3,000 organizations. “Great concept,” said Richard A. Marquise, later one of the FBI’s leading terrorism investigators. “Totally useless.”

19.
“an incredible assault”:
Webster et al., “A Review of FBI Security Programs,” Commission for Review of FBI Security Programs, Justice Department, March 2002.

39.
T
HE
P
RICE OF
S
ILENCE

  
1.
“one of the most gut-wrenching investigations”:
Pimentel oral history, FBI/FBIOH.

  
2.
“blatantly false”:
Revell testimony, Senate Intelligence Committee, Feb. 23, 1988.

  
3.
From 1988 onward:
In Oct. 2009, the United States Department of Homeland Security began judicial proceedings to deport Vides Casanova on the grounds that he had tortured political prisoners in El Salvador. A final judgment was scheduled as this book went to press in January 2012.

  
4.
“They were skillful collectors”:
Webster oral history, FBI/FBIOH.

  
5.
“There is little or no doubt”:
Hunter oral history, FBI/FBIOH.

  
6.
“At first he was less than enthused”:
Oliver “Buck” Revell and Dwight Williams,
A G-Man’s Journal
(New York: Pocket Books, 1998), p. 217.

  
7.
“That was my first experience with espionage”:
York oral history, FBI/FBIOH.

  
8.
“Mathews considered himself”:
Matens memoir reprinted in FBI/FBIOH.

  
9.
“I did not want to turn the FBI”:
Webster oral history, FBI/FBIOH.

10.
“Reagan was preoccupied”:
Robert M. Gates,
From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider’s Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996), p. 397.

11.
“The Attorney General doesn’t”:
Revell deposition,
Report of the Congressional Committees Investigating the Iran/Contra Affair
, June 11, 1987, pp. 909ff.

12.
“I was sort of odd man out”:
Ibid.

13.
“A real bombshell”:
Vice President Bush’s diary entry for Nov. 22 and his FBI interview on Dec. 12, 1986, are described in the
Final Report of the Independent Counsel for Iran/Contra Matters
, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, Aug. 4, 1993.

14.
“We probably could have overcome”:
Duane R. Clarridge with Digby Diehl,
A Spy for All Seasons: My Life in the CIA
(New York: Scribner, 1997), p. 371.

15.
“effectively neutralized”:
Revell,
A G-Man’s Journal
, p. 296.

16.
“down to zero”:
Revell testimony, House Committee on International Relations, Oct. 3, 2001.

17.
“terrorism was not a big deal”:
Marquise oral history, FBI/FBIOH.

40.
M
OSAIC

  
1.
“The FBI was not set up”:
Marquise oral history. The FBI’s work on Pan Am 103 is minutely described in Marquise’s book on the case:
SCOTBOM: Evidence and the Lockerbie Investigation
(New York: Algora Publishing, 2006).

  
2.
“fearlessly moved”:
Robert S. Mueller III combat citation (2nd Platoon, H Company, 2nd Battalion, 4th Regiment, 3rd Marine Division), Dec. 11, 1968.

  
3.
“Getting Director Sessions’ full attention”:
Baker oral history, FBI/FBIOH.

  
4.
Megrahi was indicted:
Qaddafi turned Megrahi over to the long arm of international law in 1999. He was found guilty by a Scottish court sitting in the Netherlands in 2001, but released in 2009 after a diagnosis of cancer and threats against the British government by Qaddafi. In February 2011, Qaddafi’s justice minister, after defecting during the NATO attack on Libya, said unequivocally that Qaddafi had commanded the bombing of Pan Am 103.

41.
T
HE
B
LIND
S
HEIKH