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AOL TW secures Secret Service vet

By Georg Szalai

NEW YORK (The Hollywood Reporter) --- In the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, AOL Time Warner Inc. is breaking new ground in the media industry, saying Monday that it has named the deputy director of the U.S. Secret Service to the new position of chief security officer and senior vp.

Larry Cockell, a 20-year Secret Service veteran, will start his new assignment at the world's largest entertainment and online conglomerate Jan. 14. Reporting to AOL TW executive vp administration Patricia Fili-Krushel, Cockell will be responsible for security on a global basis, coordinating and overseeing all security policies and operations, the company said.

Analysts said Monday that they were not aware of similar positions at other media giants but that big corporations in other fields have started shoring up their security operations following Sept. 11. "I don't know of such a chief security officer position at any of AOL's media peers," Kaufman Bros. analyst Paul Kim said. "But this is definitely a growing trend at S&P 500 companies."

AOL TW is in need of a security enforcer to avoid service interruptions, particularly at its online unit, Kim said. "America Online is a distribution platform for a lot of value the conglomerate creates," he said, adding that any service interruptions could hurt the company's overall business.

The appointment of Cockell as chief security officer also is in line with comments from AOL TW CEO Gerald Levin in recent months. On several occasions, Levin has said that after the September terrorist attacks, he sees it as one of his main obligations to ensure the security of his employees and his company's operations.

"In these increasingly turbulent times, Larry's appointment will bring a higher level of coordination and integration to our worldwide security operations," Fili-Krushel said Monday.

Cockell has been with the Secret Service in various assignments for the past 20 years. Most recently, he was deputy director, making him the highest-ranking black agent in the agency's history.

From 1998-2000, Cockell was special agent in charge of the presidential protective division, directing all security programs at the Clinton White House. Before that, he was assistant director of the Secret Service's office of human resources and training.

Before joining the Secret Service, Cockell worked at the Metropolitan St. Louis Police Department for eight years. He holds a bachelor's degree in urban affairs from St. Louis University.

 

Ummm, What's AOL? < /sarcasm>

So, AOL Time Warner ushers in the 21st century with the New Korporate Intelligensia. Big Brother Lives in the CEOs Office! < /tinfoil hat off >

This man was billy clintons Secret Service man. Got his promotion during billy's reign. This is payback for keeping his mouth shut and not talking to Grand Jury. Another promise kept by billy boy, but someone else is paying.

BINGO

And this is supposed to be signigicant why?

Starr says guards may have witnessed crimes Copyright © 1998 Nando.net Copyright © 1998 Associated Press Return to the special report main page WASHINGTON -- With a hard-fought victory in hand, Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr asserts that Secret Service personnel he is questioning before the grand jury "may have observed evidence of possible crimes" at the White House. Prosecutors questioned three officers Friday, shortly after Chief Justice William Rehnquist refused to extend a temporary reprieve the Secret Service received the previous day from the U.S. Court of Appeals. The decision ended bitter legal wrangling over whether President Clinton's protectors had the right to stay silent rather than tell a grand jury what they had seen and heard. According to Starr, Secret Service employees "have evidence relevant" to the perjury and obstruction-of-justice investigation focusing on Clinton and former White House intern Monica Lewinsky. "Specifically, the OIC (Office of Independent Counsel) is in possession of information that Secret Service personnel may have observed evidence of possible crimes while stationed in and around the White House complex," Starr wrote in a brief to the Supreme Court on Friday. He did not elaborate. Starr made the same assertion in a filing June 2 that asked the high court for an expedited ruling in the case, bypassing the appeals court. The justices rejected that request. Four minutes before a noon deadline and with six subpoenaed Secret Service officers and a plainclothes agent anxiously waiting outside the grand jury, Rehnquist refused to extend the reprieve. "In my view, the (administration) has not demonstrated that denying a stay and enforcing the subpoenas ... would cause irreparable harm," Rehnquist wrote. The chief justice left open the possibility the Supreme Court might review the broader legal issue this fall. Nonetheless, he made presidential bodyguards reluctant grand jury witnesses, forced for the first time ever to answer questions about the man they protect. Starr asserted his new power in the boldest fashion, promptly calling the witnesses before a grand jury that was not even the one assigned to the Lewinsky investigation. That panel did not meet Friday. Two current Secret Service uniformed officers and one recently retired officer, Robert Ferguson, testified. Agent Larry Cockell, the chief of the presidential security detail, was among the subpoenaed witnesses not questioned. His lawyer, John Kotelly, said Cockell has not been told when to return. Attorney Mike Leibig, who represents two of the subpoenaed uniformed division Secret Service officers, said several of the witnesses would return Tuesday. "This is a difficult thing for him to do," Kotelly said of Cockell. "His training is such that he does not talk about the president. He believes that the president is entitled to that privacy." Kotelly said Cockell initially would not answer questions involving national security or conversations he overheard between Clinton and his lawyers. "If those questions are raised, they will be objected to and he will decline to answer the questions until the court orders otherwise," Kotelly said. While it was of little solace to the administration, Rehnquist signaled that the full Supreme Court might take up the underlying legal issue when it returns to work this fall. "I shall assume, without deciding, that four members of this court" will vote to hear the case, he said. Presidential confidant Bruce Lindsey, himself engaged in a battle over his testimony that could eventually reach the Supreme Court, said of the Secret Service employees and their legal situation: "It's hard to put the toothpaste back in the tube once they've testified." Clinton said Friday, "I have a legal opinion and I have a personal opinion, but I think ... it would be completely inappropriate for me to be involved in this." The grand jury is investigating possible perjury, witness intimidation and obstruction. The core issue is whether Clinton lied under oath and encouraged Lewinsky to do the same in Paula Jones' sexual harassment lawsuit against the president in an effort to cover up an alleged sexual relationship. Both Clinton and Lewinsky have denied such a relationship. By LARRY MARGASAK, Associated Press Writer

Save the HTML tutorials please.

Then learn. It's right at the bottom of every reply page. Don't be a lazy slug.

You make our eyes bleed.

Ya big grouch!!

This story might have a nugget in it. The price of silence.

Ouch! I will but I am a late bloomer. LOL

Ouch! I will but I am a late bloomer. LOL

You didn't get the memo? Bloomers are optional after 6 PM Pacific on FR.

The price of silence.

Indeed. Both to reward past silence, and to provide an incentive for future silence.

By remaining loyal to Clinton when he is out of office, Case shows himself a true Clintonista.

what better to watch you

He holds a bachelor's degree in urban affairs from St. Louis University.

So - we can probably expect this guy to be an able administrator that gets all his employee reviews into personnel on time ...

I wonder - has this guy ever rolled a Chevy Suburban or Ford Excusion on a gravel road?

Re: So - we can probably expect this guy to be an able administrator that gets all his employee reviews into personnel on time ... I wonder - has this guy ever rolled a Chevy Suburban or Ford Excusion on a gravel road?

LOL. Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach (or manage). Those who can't teach or manage, manage to teach others how to teach or manage. I'm sure evasive driving tactics are at best a distant memory for this guy. Anyway, I thought wrecking cars was the specialty of the FBI (at the federal level). To be sure, many state police agencies can also hold their own in the art.

You make our eyes bleed.

ROFL! A person of few but powerful words! :)