One Sunni militia leader in the area said the men who were killed had been staffing a legitimate checkpoint.
Christoph Pleitgen, a senior Reuters executive, says the big newswires have been staffing up in the past year.
Shota Utiashvili, a senior official in Georgia's Interior Ministry, said that though Russian soldiers had been staffing checkpoints since August, he worried that F.S.B. units "might be more willing to stage operations" along the Georgian border.
Not having seen an application in a generation, the commission has been staffing up for the task but has warned that its capacity to deal with the work involved is not unlimited.
An inquest into Wright's death found that no one had been staffing the observation tower overlooking the prison yard where the attack took place, and surveillance cameras were not working even though they had been reported as faulty.
Notably, Mr. Beck's company has been staffing up — making Web shows, some of which have little or nothing to do with Mr. Beck, and charging a monthly subscription for access to the shows.
