Concern that a dearth of external e-mail accounts at the FBI will effect the agency’s ability to fight crime and terrorism is “overblown,” according to Coleen Rowley. Rowley is a former principal legal advisor with the bureau known for blowing the whistle on oversights it made prior to the World Trade Center attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. “Trying to tie this in with terrorism is a little overblown because you can’t communicate that kind of information over a non-secured system that goes outside the FBI anyway,” Rowley told TechNewsWorld.
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Whistleblower Says FBI E-Mail Flap Overblown
Posted by: John P. Mello Jr. March 23, 2006 07:39 AMConcern that a dearth of external e-mail accounts at the FBI will effect the agency’s ability to fight crime and terrorism is “overblown,” according to Coleen Rowley. Rowley is a former principal legal advisor with the bureau known for blowing the whistle on oversights it made prior to the World Trade Center attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. “Trying to tie this in with terrorism is a little overblown because you can’t communicate that kind of information over a non-secured system that goes outside the FBI anyway,” Rowley told TechNewsWorld.