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Author: Fanra

Feb 10th 2010 at 11:59:25 PM

I'm not exactly sure how this fits but in the movie ''Breach'', which is based on the true story of Robert Hanssen, an FBI agent convicted of spying for the Soviet Union, Hanssen was part of the team who was looking for TheMole, who was himself.  Also, during the movie he points out often how lax the FBI security is, that a spy could easily gain unauthorized access to the FBI computers and how the bosses won't let him fix it.

In RealLife, he hacked into the computer of a fellow FBI agent, Ray Mislock, printed out a classified document from Mislock's computer, and brought the document to Mislock, saying, "You didn't believe me that the system was insecure." FBI officials believed him when he told them that he was merely demonstrating flaws in the FBI's security system. Mislock later theorized that Hanssen went into Mislock's computer to see if the FBI was investigating him, and invented the document story to cover his tracks.

Left open is exactly how conflicted Hanssen was, whether or not he really was upset at the stupidity (as he saw it) of the FBI in not preventing people like himself from exploiting the system.  The movie hints that he was rather angry that the FBI wouldn't listen to his pointing out the flaws.