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When Seconds Count
This investigation is a continuation of the original story which exposed problems with Virginia Beach's volunteer rescue service. After a 10-month investigation, reporters found that only 60 percent of patients received help within six minutes. The volunteer service is also overworked and understaffed, and, in many cases, rescues were slow because crews got lost trying to find the neighborhoods.
Tags: rescue workers; slow response time; firefighters; emergency; CPR
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Mission impossible: The inside story of how a band of reformers tried -- and failed -- to change America's spy agencies
Four top CIA officials including retired CIA director George Tenet went on the record to give details of what they thought was wrong with America's spy network. As the investigation reveals, the main problem was an uncoordinated working system that completely ignored basic requests such as Internet hook-ups and connectivity. It also talks about the fact that the collection of information on foreign targets including Iraq was incomplete and disjointed.
Tags: CIA; George Tenet; Joan Dempsey; James Simon; John Gannon; Charlie Allen; Central Intelligence Agency; Iraq; reforms in the CIA; spy; intelligence operations; 9/11 attacks; Iraq war; terrorism; espionage
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When Seconds Count
The Virginia Beach Emergency Response System operates with a set of volunteers. This investigation reveals that this system is lax and is outdated. They revealed that the response team took longer than the ideal 6 minutes. Since the volunteers had regular day time jobs, there were as few as 5 of the 32 ambulances operational during the day. After this series was aired, the city considered adopting certain changes in the emergency system.
Tags: Virginia Beach Emergency Response; ambulance; ambulance volunteers; FOIA
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Ex-hit man breaks code of silence
Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch runs articles on a Mafia hitman who testified under the witness protection program.
Tags: Mafia; hitman; witness protection program; Virginia; Charlie Allen