He also said that lawyers representing possible targets often approach top enforcement officials.

In all, about 10,000 law enforcement officials were on the street.

First offenders may still get off with a warning, enforcement officials said.

It is not clear what kind of access law enforcement officials would have to the new data bases, experts said.

By year's end three more of the agency's top enforcement officials resigned.

One senior law enforcement official said the case against him was "very weak."

"I will use the word 'betrayal,"' he said of the law enforcement officials who worked on his brother's case.

And if anything, some law enforcement officials say, the agency has been too timid.

The main thing law enforcement officials need is money.

The split between two of the country's most powerful law enforcement officials has been known for months.