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Department of Justice investigating if hundreds of FBI agents may have cheated on test

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The investigators are being investigated.

The Justice Department is trying to find out if hundreds of FBI agents cheated on a test on new rules governing the bureau to conduct surveillance and when agents are permitted to open cases without evidence, according to the Associated Press.

Authorities are suspicious because some agents took the open-book test in groups, which is prohibited. Others also finished the extensive test in a suspiciously short amount of time.

“There are similar stories for practically every office, demonstrating the pervasive confusion and miscommunication that existed,” Konrad Motyka, president of the FBI Agents Association wrote to the Justice Department in a letter dated on May 18.

Motyka suggested the agents not be punished. He said the problem was due to a lack of communication about the rules.

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