William Webster, who conducted a review of FBI after Robert Hanssen’s case surfaced, is now appointed to look into the incident of Fort Hood.
According to the details, William Webster has been appointed to lead a team which will overview and investigate the policies and practices of FBI before the Fort Hood Massacre. Webster a former FBI director and federal judge had also conducted a preview of FBI after the case of Robert Hanssen emerged on the surface. This news gives a hint that FBI has failed to receive warning signals about the Fort Hood incident. William Webster did his previous review of FBI’s actions and practices when an FBI agent Robert Hanssen was found having links with secret agencies of Soviet Union. What is the inside story of Robert Hanssen’s incident what actions were taken against him? Read the following details:
Robert Hanssen, a former FBI agent, is now serving a life sentence in U.S. Bureau of Prisons Administrative Maximum Facility in Florence, Colorado. He spends 23 hours a day in complete solitude. Robert Hanssen was arrested in 2001 when he was charged with leaking American secrets to Russian secret agencies.
Born in Chicago, Robert attended William Howard Taft High school and later Knox College. He took some elective courses due to his interest in Russian. He did MBA and landed a job in an accounting firm but later quit it to join Chicago Police Department as an investigator. He was transferred to FBI in 1976. His espionages activities date back to late 1970s when he contacted GRU (a secret soviet military intelligence agency) and sold them important information. During his tenure at FBI as an agent, Robert Hanssen sold many American secrets to GRU for a heft amount of US $1.4 million in cash and diamonds.
His activities have often been dubbed as ‘worst intelligence disaster in the history of United States’.
Robert Hanssen
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