Subject:	Agent Says FBI's Y2k Steps are a "CLUE"
Date:	1999/07/08
Author:	Paul Milne <fedinfo@halifax.com>
	Posting History

FBI cancels leaves for Y2K   Unprecedented action signals agency planning for worst   ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----   The Federal Bureau of Investigation recently notified all their agents that all leaves from Dec. 15 through mid-January -- even those previously approved -- are officially canceled. According to a special agent within the Department of Health and Human Services, a partner in the FBI received a memo stating all end-of-the-year leaves had been canceled for three to four weeks between the middle of December and the middle of January.       Commenting on the infrequency of such a move by the FBI, the agent from the Department of Health and Human Services said, "To my knowledge, even during the Iranian crisis in 1980 and the war with Iraq, I don't think the entire FBI had been on alert and all annual leave canceled."   "It's a mess," concluded the agent concerning the FBI's Y2K preparation. "They're very much behind. If it was a 72 hour 'snowstorm,' you wouldn't bring out 12,000 FBI agents on stand-by and, for the first time maybe in FBI history, cancel everybody's annual leave for a 20-30 day time frame. That's very significant. In my line of work, that's called a clue."   ===============     Let's see. An FBI agent says that for the first time in history the FBI is taking these kinds of extremely serious steps.   He calls it a 'clue'.   Pollyannas are too stupid to take the 'clue' and do something about it. They define 'cluelessness'.They prefer to say that they see no evidence that there are any serious problems.   I wish I could be there to see their faces when the panic seizes up their tiny little brains.       http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_exnews/19990708_xex_fbi_cancels_.shtml   Paul Milne

-- a (a@a.a), July 09, 1999

Answers

More than a clue, how about writing on the wall??????

-- Moore Dinty moore (not@thistime.com), July 09, 1999.

Could it be not y2k but the opportunities of terrorism that y2k presents? This is my nightmare. We...meaning thee and me, society and the power people can handle the grid going down for a short time. But if the nut cases decide to drive by the sub stations and lob in grenades, then we have a long acting mess on our hands. And there are far worse scenarios of terrorism and I don't even choose to go there.

Taz...who would like to turn back the clock where everything wasn't out of one's own control.

-- Taz (Tassie @aol.com), July 09, 1999.

Taz,

That's the "clue" that has me concerned too. Washington, D.C. as well. Somehow I think potential outside problems to the Critical Infrastructure, are what pulls the FBI's attention.

And it should.

*Sigh*

Could we just fast-forward to 2005 please?

Diane

-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), July 09, 1999.

It seems unlikely that the agents will be staffing the 911 phones.

-- Dave (aaa@aaa.com), July 09, 1999.

I think the FBI is only being smart.

If they WEREN'T doing that, what would the venerable doomers like Milne say?

I'll bet the FBI is more concerned about nutcases like Gary North who would like to see the banking system crash and also assorted militia nutcases loading up on guns and ammo. Not to mention the religous cults springing up that welcome the upcoming rapture.

Terrorism would have quite a nice opportunity to strike during any kind of y2k crisis, or they could definately create one.

Hell, it makes me nervous.

But even that being said, my company is fine for Y2k (or as fine as anyone can reasonably be...we've acheived almost level four on Gartner's scale according to indenpendant auditors). And we have an on-call policy where everyone must be within 4 hours of the campus, and Monday, Jan 3 is a working day.

I think it's a sign the FBI is taking Y2k and the opportunity for terrorism and cult nutcases seriously, as everyone should.

-- JAW (clueless@pollyanna.com), July 09, 1999.

Atlanta and terrorism scare me. Center of disease control! Spouse's employer had been concerned abt terrorism for the past 8 months. It's a real threat. I agree, Diane, that it it were just y2k alone we could possibly get through it...I think it will be alot of things along with y2k that we are facing!

-- Moore Dinty moore (not@thistime.com), July 09, 1999.

Hey JAW, I missed you over on the CIA Thread. You seem to have a mouthful to say about the FBI, let's hear what you have to say about the CIA report.

Ray

-- Ray (ray@totacc.com), July 09, 1999.

JAW, thought I would bring this thread back to the top in case you missed the invite to comment on the CIA Thread.

Ray

-- Ray (ray@totacc.com), July 09, 1999.

Shoot JAW, if the FBI *honestly* wants something to be terrified about, all they need do is observe that damn wing nut sittin' behind the desk in the oval office. If that isn't reason enough to 'take no prisoners', I don't know what is!

-- Will continue (farming@home.com), July 09, 1999.

Last time I spoke with a doctor who works at the CDS in Atlanta - this was perhaps five weeks ago - they had a emergency generator on site, but no long term (anything more than a "couple hours") of fuel, and had no year 2000 contingency plans.

No specific CDC site-wide backup plans were being openly discussed - if they exist at all, and nothing has been said about any plans in the local papers. Nothing here at all about general remediation at the site.

Figure you guys should know - if you want to call the governor's office or FEMA (or GA EMA) to complain.

-- Robert A Cook, PE (Kennesaw, GA) (cook.r@csaatl.com), July 09, 1999.