(10.01.2003) Bowman, the head of the FBI’s National Security Law Unit, was praised for helping to eliminate backlogs in the requests for search warrants under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, and for his efforts to build “a skilled staff of attorneys to examine diverse and highly complex issues for which little or no formal legal education has been available.”

It was Bowman’s law unit that denied an August 2001 search warrant application filed by agents in Minneapolis, Minn., against Zacarias Moussaoui, known as the “20th hijacker.”