FBI Backlogged in Translating Of Counterterrorism Wiretaps
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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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By John Shultz, The Kansas City Star, Mo.  Jun. 27--It caused enough concern -- an apparently leaking package, a return address in Africa and a rash -- to bring in the FBI, a hazardous-materials response team and the bomb squad.   In the end, it was largely benign.
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Senators frustrated by scant details on the Bush administration's domestic eavesdropping program on Wednesday rapped FBI Director Robert Mueller for refusing to show how it has curbed terrorist activity in the United States.
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he 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 American Civil Liberties Union is seeking information from the FBI on why bureau task forces set up to combat terrorism also looked into anti-war, animal rights and environmental groups.
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A plan to use U.S. spy satellites for domestic security and law-enforcement missions is moving forward after being delayed for months because of privacy and civil liberties concerns.
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The FBI failed to report accurately how many people it snooped on using anti-terror measures, officials said a government audit revealed today. Demands for banks and phone companies to hand over people's private information without telling them may also have gone beyond what is allowed by the Patriot Act, officials with access to the report told CNN.
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The FBI wants to pay the major telecommunications companies to retain their customers' Internet and phone call information for at least two years for the agency's use in counterterrorism investigations and is asking Congress for $5 million a year to defray the cost, according to FBI officials and...
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The inspector general for the Justice Department is also concerned that taking money from other FBI programs could hinder efforts in counterterrorism and cybercrime.
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A phone company cut off a FBI foreign-intelligence wiretap after the FBI failed to pay its bills, according to an internal audit. The disconnection was just one consequence of the FBI's routine late payments to the nation's telecoms for wiretaps and surveillance infrastructure.
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National security officials worry about a possible attack against the United States in the months ahead even though the government's leading terrorism experts have not found concrete information about an imminent strike.
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After a delay of more than a year, a government board appointed to guard Americans' privacy and civil liberties during the war on terror has been told the inner workings of the government's electronic eavesdropping program.
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The FBI may have to scrap a new computer program aimed at helping agents share information in the war on terror because officials consider it inadequate, the Los Angeles Times reported on Thursday.
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The FBI may have to scrap a new  computer program aimed at helping agents share information in  the war on terror because officials consider it inadequate, the  Los Angeles Times reported on Thursday.
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The FBI has spent more than a year covertly investigating, including with the use of electronic surveillance, whether a Pentagon analyst funneled highly classified material to Israel, officials said Saturday. Prosecutors were still weighing whether to bring the most serious charge of espionage.
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Federal prosecutors Tuesday acknowledged a possible translation error in a key piece of evidence used to arrest and detain a mosque leader accused of supporting terrorism.
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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¦