FBI Lagging Behind In Terrorism Cases

October 26. 2009

FBI Director Robert S. Mueller

The FBI was rebuked by the Justice Department's inspector general, Glenn Fine, for allowing 47,000 hours of audio files in terrorism cases, to pile up without being translated, which is very dangerous. How can they claim the country is safe and they have failed to translate tens of thousands of hours of wiretapped calls, presumably containing conversations by Arabic suspects.

Sibel Edmonds

This supports an item covered on the site a couple years ago, regarding what former FBI employee, translator and current whistleblower, Sibel Edmonds, stated on television, regarding her former supervisor at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, telling her to let work pile up, to enable the agency to extract more taxpayer dollars from Congress, by claiming they are understaffed.

Report: FBI not reviewing all of its evidence

WASHINGTON — The FBI is still not reviewing reams of evidence collected in counterterrorism cases, and has fewer translators than it did a few years ago, an internal government watchdog said Monday.

Glenn Fine, the Justice Department's inspector general, issued a report Monday finding flaws in the FBI's translation and evidence review efforts. FBI officials responded by saying the inspector general overstated the problem by double-counting wiretap recordings that are shared with more than one bureau office.

The 131-page report says that since 2003, the FBI has not reviewed about 47,000 hours of audio files in counterterrorism cases — the equivalent of a single recording running for five and a half years straight. The bureau says the real backlog is only about a tenth of that, or 4,770 hours — 200 days worth...

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