Are You Safer Now?

Who knows? Certainly not the Feds. The Wall Street Journal this morning says that the FBI has hundreds of thousands of hours of intercepted communications - recorded since 9/11 - that it has not translated. Despite an influx of money.

In addition, the audit by Glenn A. Fine, the agency's inspector general, found that more than one-third of al Qaeda intercepts authorized by a secret federal court were not reviewed with 12 hours of collection as required by FBI Director Robert Mueller.

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This backlog existed even though the FBI's language services funding had increased from $21.5 million in fiscal 2001 to about $70 million in fiscal 2004. The number of linguists has risen from 883 to 1,214 over that period.

Think anyone will be fired over this? No, neither do I.