The FBI Running Amok Again

FBI Director Robert S. Mueller

This month, there have been a number of bad headlines regarding the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation). It was announced, via a report by Inspector General, Glenn Fine, that the FBI's computer system is once again behind schedule and well over-budget by many millions, during a financial depression, of all times.

The U.S. taxpayer has been picking up the tab for the computer albatross that has been nothing but a waste of money from day one, due to how it was undertaken. Years ago, the FBI's technologically illiterate director, Robert S. Mueller, determined to do things his way, ignored the warnings of people such as myself and it has spectacularly blown up in his face. The FBI is now stuck with a mismatched computer system that contains over 10,000 software errors and also lags behind technology. Close to one billion dollars has been wasted on this endeavor gone madly wrong.

I don't know what he is smirking about, as he is about to go down in history as the worst FBI Director ever and the one that ran the agency into the ground

Other news headlines regarding the FBI include, many articles on the agency abusing, threatening and violating the Constitutional rights of Americans, who are conscientious objectors to wars the government is waging in the Middle East. They are being summarily searched, targeted for abusive and harsh questioning, arrested, as well as investigated and followed, all on the taxpayers' dime.

In trying to defend their unconstitutional conduct, the FBI tried to make one of their crazy, illogical and pathetic leaps, attempting to absurdly paint people who oppose the wars in the Middle East, as "terrorists" which is insane. They abuse that word too much and it is losing its meaning. The FBI is firmly running a police state, where freedom of speech, freedom of thought and anything less than complete and total worship and subservience to the government, is a crime. Isn't that how Hitler got started.

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Inspector General Confirms FBI Agents Are Cheaters

FBI Director Robert S. Mueller

The FBI's motto is "Fidelity, Bravery and Integrity." However, they need to add the word cheating to it, as U.S. Inspector General, Glenn Fine, released a report revealing, FBI Agents have indeed been cheating on national security tests, aimed at having them learn about terrorism on all fronts, which pose a threat to the nation.

The FBI is not serious about national security, as they would never do such a thing if they were. Repeated terrorist attacks on America and its allies, where reports indicate, the agency had information on the suspects in advance, proves the FBI is a failure and waste of taxpayer money.

STORY SOURCE

Report: Significant cheating by FBI agents on exam

Should FBI Employees Be Forced To Reimburse Taxpayers For Illegal Investigations

Investigating Innocent People

FBI Director Robert S. Mueller

In light of recent confirmation by the U.S. Inspector General, Glenn Fine, revealing the FBI spied on peace activists and other outspoken law abiding people (still does), should FBI employees be required to reimburse taxpayers for wasting the nation's money on knowingly frivolous, unconstitutional, illegal and politically motivated investigations.

The Judiciary Report is of the belief, FBI employees, especially those on a management level, should be legally forced to repay tax funds misused on deceitfully investigating innocent people. Many investigations are opened for the wrong reasons and have nothing to do with national security.

Some have misused the FBI as their own personal private detective agency, in criminal violation of the Bureau's federal mandate. Presidents, senators and business people with ties to the FBI, have improperly requested access to invasive items about individuals. Laws were broken and the Constitution violated in the process to accommodate their requests, via launching improper and illegal investigations into innocent people. The taxpayers picked up the hefty bills, to the tune of many millions of dollars.

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FBI Reproved For Spying On Journalists

FBI Perv Robert S. Mueller

According to DOJ Inspector General, Glenn A. Fine's testimony in Congress this week, the FBI, headed by psycho, Robert S. Mueller, has been spying on journalists and bloggers in America, in violation of the U.S. Constitution, as the Judiciary Report and its sister site, The Sound Off Column, have stated for years.

Fine's report stated FBI agents, under instructions from headquarters, routinely lied to telephone companies to spy on journalists and bloggers, clearly with no probable cause.

However, the issue of the FBI spying on innocent people in their homes visually (hidden cameras, spyware surreptitiously installed on computers to access webcams, as in the Blake Robbins case that has now been proven true) and audibly (roving mobile phone bugs) needs to be addressed.

These thoroughly perverse forms of spying have been utilized by the FBI against innocent Americans, such as scientists, doctors and professors (who do groundbreaking research and patents) and journalists and bloggers (who write exposes or unflattering articles about the Bureau or their affiliates).

STORY SOURCE 1:

FBI caught lying to spy on reporters, citizens without court order

4/20/2010 1:05 - (Washington) -- Federal agents have been lying to get access to phone records that should require a court order, allowing them to sift through private phone calls of news reporters and other citizens, according to the Justice Department's Inspector General.

Testifying this week before the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, Inspector General Glenn Fine urged Congress to increase its oversight on FBI agents' abuses of a process that allows them to get phone records without a court order...

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STORY SOURCE 2:

FBI Caught Lying To Spy On Reporters Without Court Order

FBI Faulted For Failures On Identity Theft

FBI Director Robert S. Mueller (Photo credit: Stephanie Woodrow)

U.S. Inspector General for the Department of Justice, Glenn Fine, has taken his subordinates to task at The FBI, for failing to properly tackle the identity theft problem in America. He wrote the agency had not implemented any of his suggestions on correcting their shortcomings in the investigative aspect of identify theft.

Inspector General Report Faults DOJ Identity Theft Efforts

March 30, 2010 - The U.S. Department of Justice is falling short in its efforts to combat identity theft, according to a report released on Tuesday by the department's Office of the Inspector General. The report said the department isn't complying with many of the recommendations of then-President George W. Bush’s identity theft task force.

The report found that DOJ had not even assigned an official to oversee the implementing of those recommendations, released in April 2007, and that it lacked a clear overall strategy.

"This lack of a coordinator responsible for the DOJ's identity theft efforts has led to an uncoordinated, and sometimes nonexistent, approach by DOJ components to address identity theft," the report stated...

http://legaltimes.typepad.com

The FBI Fancies Itself A Corporation

FBI Director Robert S. Mueller

Today on The FBI's website, the national law enforcement agency fancied itself a corporation, much like the Judiciary Report's sister site the Sound Off Column made reference to in 2006, drawing parallels to point out the agency's shortcomings, costing the taxpayers of America a fortune, due to their folly.

Today the FBI stated, "In the corporate world, the approach might help reveal inefficiencies and save money. For the FBI, finding intelligence gaps or discovering better methods could save lives."

However, the FBI clearly thinks a lot of itself, which is ironic given its terrible failure rate. As the Sound Off Column did in 2006, comparing the FBI to a corporation to highlight its failures, the Judiciary Report shall do today as well, especially in light of recently released Inspector General reports, painfully illustrating the FBI is still wasting hundreds of millions in taxpayer money. Some people never learn.

A corporation could never function in the manner the FBI has under Director Robert S. Mueller. If the FBI had been an actual corporation, it would have went bankrupt, folded and gone out of business long ago, with shareholders protesting in revolt at its poor practices that cost them a big bundle.

In corporate terms, the FBI suffers from self-inflicted bad PR, systematic budget overruns, financial misappropriation, exorbitant expense accounts, embezzlement, unethical business practices, deceptive advertising, invades customers' privacy, poor consumer ties, ineptitude, breach of fiduciary duty, misconduct, insider trading, unaccounted for and stolen equipment, unnecessary overtime, gross lack of efficiency, computer illiterate, bad communications systems, a bad line of products and a treacherous, ruthless megalomaniac CEO.

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TALKING STRATEGY

The New Intelligence-Driven FBI - 04/02/10 - With the leadership of almost every major FBI program seated around a conference table at FBI Headquarters and the top echelons of the Bureau’s three largest field offices appearing via remote television monitors, Director Robert Mueller arrived in shirtsleeves and got down to business.

The assistant directors in charge of the New York, Los Angeles, and Washington Field Offices, along with their top managers, were present—leaning forward, ready to field questions on how they are tackling the Bureau’s top priorities and their own most pressing threats.

The meeting is called a Strategy Performance Session, or SPS. It’s a management tool to drill down and identify how well a field office knows its territory and what its investigative strengths and weaknesses are. In the corporate world, the approach might help reveal inefficiencies and save money. For the FBI, finding intelligence gaps or discovering better methods could save lives.

The two-hour, semi-annual sessions—and the preparation leading up to them—can help reveal not only how much our 56 field offices know, but how they know it. What effective techniques can be adopted by other offices?...

“Everyone in that room heard from the Director about what he wants,” Harrington said. By meeting’s end, action items are clear. Headquarters knows what commanders are up against, and the field has unfiltered insight into Director Mueller’s priorities. “By asking the right questions, we’re engaging them to start thinking about it.”...

http://www.fbi.gov

IG: FBI Computer System On Track For Failure

FBI Director Robert S. Mueller (Photo credit: Stephanie Woodrow)

U.S. Inspector General Glenn A. Fine has confirmed, the FBI's mess of a computer system is on track to fail once again. One part of the report cites an application within the computer system that has rendered over 10,000 software errors and become a nightmare for FBI agents. The computer system is behind once again and has wasted hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer money.

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FBI Computer System Still A Financial Sinkhole

FBI's new computer system facing more costs, delay

Wed Mar 31, 2010 5:16pm EDT - (Reuters) - A long-running effort to upgrade FBI computerized case files faced additional big cost overruns and a new delay, the U.S. Justice Department's inspector general said in a report issued on Wednesday.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the contractor Lockheed Martin Corp were renegotiating the budget -- last estimated at $451 million -- as well as the schedule and some of the work to be performed, the report said.

The system, known as Sentinel, had been expected to be completed by September but FBI Director Robert Mueller told Congress earlier this month it would be delayed until 2011.

"We have significant concerns with the rate and cost at which Sentinel's development is progressing," the report said. "The FBI will require significant additional time and funding to address these issues."...

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Annals of crime: the FBI's continuing computer woes

...The back story, in case you’ve missed the OIG’s reports on Sentinel over the past five years:

“After more than 3 years and $334 million expended on the development and maintenance of Sentinel, the cost to Sentinel is rising, the completion of Sentinel has been delayed, and the FBI does not have a current schedule or cost estimate for completing the project.”

Actually, it gets worse:

“In today’s report," the OIG continued, "we also noted that the FBI had conditionally accepted delivery of Segment 4 of Sentinel’s Phase 2 in December 2009, despite knowing that there were serious performance and usability issues. “

Investigators found “10,000 inefficiencies in Sentinel’s software code” supplied by the FBI’s contractor, Lockheed Martin...

http://blog.washingtonpost.com

FBI Lagging Behind In Terrorism Cases

FBI Director Robert S. Mueller

The FBI was rebuked by the Justice Department's inspector general, Glenn Fine, for allowing 47,000 hours of audio files in terrorism cases, to pile up without being translated, which is very dangerous. How can they claim the country is safe and they have failed to translate tens of thousands of hours of wiretapped calls, presumably containing conversations by Arabic suspects.

Sibel Edmonds

This supports an item covered on the site a couple years ago, regarding what former FBI employee, translator and current whistleblower, Sibel Edmonds, stated on television, regarding her former supervisor at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, telling her to let work pile up, to enable the agency to extract more taxpayer dollars from Congress, by claiming they are understaffed.

Report: FBI not reviewing all of its evidence

WASHINGTON — The FBI is still not reviewing reams of evidence collected in counterterrorism cases, and has fewer translators than it did a few years ago, an internal government watchdog said Monday.

Glenn Fine, the Justice Department's inspector general, issued a report Monday finding flaws in the FBI's translation and evidence review efforts. FBI officials responded by saying the inspector general overstated the problem by double-counting wiretap recordings that are shared with more than one bureau office.

The 131-page report says that since 2003, the FBI has not reviewed about 47,000 hours of audio files in counterterrorism cases — the equivalent of a single recording running for five and a half years straight. The bureau says the real backlog is only about a tenth of that, or 4,770 hours — 200 days worth...

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