Thoughts 13 Feb 2007 10:36 am
FBI
According to ABC:
The FBI(Federal Bureau of Incompetence) admits to losing 3 to 4 laptops a month, including one that contained the software to create FBI identification cards.
At least 10 of the 160 laptop computers reported lost or stolen contained sensitive or classified information
This is the same outfit that created a computer network that was totally useless for catching terrorists, they knew this about the same time the network was started and they went ahead anyway.
Now they are building a whole new system.
They scrapped carnivore, which was a monitoring program that would search traffic from your ISP, with filtering based on specific data, now they have a new program that uses a vacuum cleaner approach, it just sucks up everything and then filters are applied.
Oh, by the way, we’re supposed to trust them not to keep and sort the other data.
These folks are the ones that admitted that they liked the NSLs (National Security Letters) because they allowed the Bureau to collect data on citizens that they knew had committed no crime.
Now the NSL process goes through a secret court, with no oversight and no way to challange any of the evidence, and if you get one, you still have to give them anything they ask for without question and without being able to check the authenticity of the letter, and you still can’t tell anyone you got one without committing a felony.
These are the same bureaucratic buffoons who, while chasing what they called the most damaging spy since the Rosenbergs, refused to seriously look at their own, and instead spent 3 years or so, ruining the life and career os an analyst who worked for the CIA. They chased this guy relentlessly, while he did everything by the book, they had him under constant Surveillance and the spying went on anyway. They said he was a genius.
When they were finally forced to do something, they threw $25k in the general direction of a known fink working for the KGB, and he handed them Robert Hanssen’s file. To which they exclaimed:
“We were manipulated by a genius.”
They still say they did nothing wrong, everybody got their promotions and raises, except the analyst, who will probably never get any of the above ever again.