Newspaper Says FBI Holding Out on Agents Deaths courthousenews/2014/11/13/newspaper-says-fbi-holding-out-on-agents-deaths.htm May 17, 2013, deaths of agents Christopher Lorek and Stephen Shaw during a training exercise. In a May 2013 article, Daugherty cites the Hostage Rescue Teams elite standing, including their connection to Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. The FBI has acknowledged that 29 pages of information were responsive to the inquiry, the complaint continues. The FBIs position, after 10 months of review, was that not a single page or a single line of this information was subject to public disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act. As a testament to the teams rigorous training and demanding selection process, less than 300 officers have been accepted to the HRT since its inception in 1983. Highly trained and skilled agents to not fall to their deaths from a helicopter for no reason, state Daugherty and VPM in their complaint. And the public is entitled to know what caused the fall and tragic deaths and whether remedial action has been undertaken. The complaint argues, few matters are of more concern to the public than whether the government, including the FBI, conducts training appropriately, provides procedures to assure that highly-talented and capable employees are protected from death or injury, and that procedures are utilized to avoid a repetition of this tragedy.
Posted on: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 05:50:39 +0000
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