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was more protected from the threat of Islamic terror than it had been
on September 11, 2001. “Five years after 9/11, are we safer?” Mr. Bush
reforms made by all five of the major U.S. intelligence agencies since
of the FBI’s counterterrorism record in the last five years can provide
perhaps the best litmus test of whether the homeland is more secure.
After all, the Bureau is the principal agency charged with protecting
“We must refocus our missions and priorities. New technologies must
And we must improve how we hire, manage, and train our workforce;
either here in the U.S. or in the treasure trove of information that has
of the September 11th plot.” And yet, as this book has documented,
the West and East coast offices in their seeming inability to put the
technology at the Bureau lacked even the capacity to search and link
director Louis Freeh to consult, told the commission that his goal was
misstatement of fact.
(NRC) found that the system failed to support the Bureau’s new
the project, launched in November 2000 with a $380 million price tag,
ability to thwart terrorism. But the NRC concluded that Trilogy was
system would not be fully operating until 2009, eight years after the
9/11 attacks.
By March 2006, Eric Lichtblau, now covering the Bureau for the
The overhaul was supposed to be completed this fall, but now will not
be done until next year at the earliest. The delay could mean at least
$30 million in cost overruns on a project considered vital to national
security, Congressional officials said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/19/us/19fbi.html
http://web.me.com/netgraph1/peterlance.com/Failure_of_the_FBIs_virt
ual_case_file_system.html
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