Audit Finds Large FBI Translation Backlog
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WASHINGTON - The FBI has a backlog of hundreds of thousands of hours of untranslated audio recordings from terror and espionage investigations, despite large increases in money and personnel for translations since the 2001 terror attacks, a Justice Department audit released Monday said.    In addition, the audit by Glenn A...
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Newsday&#39;s under a lot of pressure - but so is the Audit Bureau of Circulations, the agency charged with verifying circulation for the newspaper industry.
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The FBI is not properly  investigating allegations of espionage within the bureau  despite proven security lapses, including an agent who spied  for Moscow for 22 years, a federal audit said on Friday.
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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 through a huge backlog of passport applications, officials said.
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A telephone company cut off an FBI international wiretap after the agency failed to pay its bill on time, according to a U.S. government audit released on Thursday.
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The FBI underreported its use of the USA Patriot Act to force businesses to turn over customer information in suspected terrorism cases, according to a Justice Department audit
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The FBI's Internet wiretaps after retiring "Carnivore" appear to involve compiling massive databases of information on thousands of users at a time.
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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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The FBI does not have enough  translators to handle a growing backlog of documents and  intercepts in Arabic, Farsi, Urdu and Pashto, a federal audit  said on Monday, confirming criticism by U.S. elected officials  and experts.
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Several federal agencies are investigating a widening network of criminal cases involving the purchasing and delivery of billions of dollars of weapons, supplies, and other materiel to Iraqi and American forces, according to officials from the agencies. The investigations amount to the largest ring of fraud and kickbacks uncovered in the conflict here, the officials said.
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Government admits disc containing details of suspected foreign criminals was mislaid for a year
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Enforcers at the accounting industry's oversight board are aggressively pursuing "numerous" investigations of rule violations and audit failures, officials told a Washington audience yesterday.
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An internal FBI audit has found that the bureau potentially violated the law or agency rules more than 1,000 times while collecting data about domestic phone calls, e-mails and financial transactions in recent years, far more than was documented in a Justice Department report in March that ignited...
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U.S. prosecutors have found a possible  translation error in a key piece of evidence against two  leaders of an upstate New York mosque accused of supporting  terrorism, U.S. officials said on Wednesday.
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Last May, Ryan Pirozzi visited his mailbox in Edina, Minn., and found it overflowing with more than a dozen bank statements.
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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.