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The female agent later filed an internal complaint charging that the FBI's then-acting special agent in charge of the Baltimore field office, Jennifer Smith Love, improperly ordered two agents to interrogate her and approved an illegal search of her computer, according to the document, which was reported yesterday in the Baltimore Sun.

The female agent -- identified in the report as "Agent Smith" to protect her identity -- had been ruled out as a likely suspect, and the interview caused dissension in an office already operating under tremendous strain, the report says.

However, the report says senior FBI officials cleared Love, as well as the two agents who conducted the interrogation, of misconduct and took no disciplinary action.

Luna's body was found Dec. 4, 2003, facedown in a shallow stream in rural Lancaster County, Pa. He had suffered 36 stab wounds, most of them superficial, but an autopsy determined that he died by drowning. His blood-spattered car was idling nearby.

FBI spokeswoman Carla McIntosh said Saturday that investigators are still considering suicide, premeditated murder or a random act of violence as possible causes of Luna's death.

QUOTE OF THE DAY

"We get some complaints like, 'Hey, jazz bars are supposed to be smoky.' But of course it's usually the guys who are standing outside [smoking] who are saying that."

-- Kris Ross, operations director at Blues Alley,

a D.C. club that went smoke-free in April 2005, before

the current debate over no-smoking ordinances. -- B1

Compiled from staff reports and the Associated Press.


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