FBI's Sentinel Computer System
Scrapped As A
Failure
July 27. 2010
FBI Director Robert S. Mueller
After four years of warnings from
this website and sister site, The Sound Off Column, the FBI's computer
system has been label a failure and write off, when it should not have
happened this way. The remaining phases of the ill-fated Sentinel
system, like the one before it, is being scrapped by the
government.
In 2006, the Sound Off Column,
repeatedly warned frequent site visitor, the FBI/DOJ, through a series
of articles, that stretching out a computer system's creation and
implementation plan would not work and years later, that's exactly
what's happened.
Once again, that's your tax
dollars up in smoke. Not to mention, over $150,000,000 of the
computer system money is unaccounted for, also known as stolen. But
don't think that will stop the FBI Director, Robert S. Mueller, from
going into Congress again, demanding many millions more in tax
dollars, to misappropriate and squander again.
For those of you wondering why
Mueller is not in prison yet - he is a modern day Hoover, with so much illegal
dirt on members of Congress and the White House, they don't want to put
their own freedom in jeopardy. However, with the madness he has done
that illegally extended into other countries, Congress is going to be
faced with some very difficult choices in the future on an international
level. In short, contrary to what he thinks, he hasn't gotten away with
a single thing.
STORY SOURCE
Computer Calamity
July 16, 2010 - The FBI
shuts down a major computer upgrade—and the FBI director's legacy
might take a hit as a result. The FBI has (again) put the
brakes on a multi-million dollar plan to fix its creaky computer
systems. This will come as little surprise to those who've followed
the G-Men's epic quest, and failure, to keep up in the Information
Age, replacing their out-of-date computers with a system that can
help agents better track criminals and terrorists. But the recent
development could have major political consequences...
Now, the fallout. For
starters, the Obama administration's budget team has already flagged
Sentinel as one of the most troubled, poorly performing tech
projects in the government. At a time of record deficits, the public
is in no mood for stories of wasteful government spending. President
Obama has seen his poll numbers plummet as voter anger over enormous
spending of all kinds rises...
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