Audit Finds Large FBI Translation Backlog
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The FBI (website) has a backlog of hundreds of thousands of hours of untranslated audio recordings from terrorism and espionage investigations, despite large increases in money and personnel for translations since the 2001 terror attacks
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The FBI has squandered $170 million  on a failed computer system agents can use to instantly share  information, and seems to know neither how long it will take  nor how much it will cost to build one, a Justice Department  audit showed on Thursday.
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The FBI has built a database with more than 659 million records -- including terrorist watch lists, intelligence cables and financial transactions -- culled from more than 50 FBI and other government agency sources. The system is one of the most powerful data analysis tools available to law...
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FBI says the agency violated rules more than 1000 times while collecting personal data since 2002--many more abuses suspected.
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The action, dubbed Operation Web Snare, entailed more than 160 investigations over a three month period between June and August. Investigators say they have identified more than 150,000 victims with estimated losses of more than $215 million.
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New Internet addresses, including those entirely in foreign languages, are under review by a key oversight agency, although meetings this week in Puerto Rico are likely to conclude with more questions.
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The FBI, which has had trouble keeping track of its guns and laptops, also has a chronic problem paying its phone bills on time, according to audit results released yesterday.
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The Audit Bureau of Circulations released the long-awaited results of its audit of the Tribune Company&#39;s scandal-tarred Newsday on Tuesday, confirming the magnitude of the discrepancies uncovered by the company&#39;s recent internal audit.
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More than 120,000 hours of terror-related audio tapes are still waiting to be translated by FBI linguists, three years after the Sept.
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Audit pending Exclusive For more than six months, beginning in January of this year, Wikipedia's million-dollar check book was balanced by a convicted felon.â¦
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Complex interception laws confuse Feds and ISPs An internal audit has discovered that the FBI overstepped the mark in intercepting communication records at least 1,000 times since 2002.â¦
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The FBI illegally or improperly obtained information on the US public, a new justice department report says.
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Thousands of DNA profiles in unsolved criminal cases experience long delays before they are added to a national FBI database, jeopardizing their value in identifying suspected murderers, rapists and others, according to a Justice Department report Monday.
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Audit reveals that bureau failed to pay bills totalling tens of thousands of dollars
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The FBI has failed to translate hundreds of thousands of hours of wiretap recordings from counterterrorism and counterintelligence investigations since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, despite steep increases in funding for new linguists and other translation services, according to a report released yesterday.
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The bureau must begin turning over thousands of documents related to its use and abuse of a powerful and secretive tactic.
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The U.S. State Department ordered about 200 recent hires on Tuesday to report to Louisiana and New Hampshire for two months to help work off a huge backlog of passport applications, officials said.