"Oh, John, remember those 900 FBI files?"
"This morning, I only counted 899 - I wonder where YOURS got to?"
"See you on the steps of the Capitol - Senator..."
Posted on 10/05/2004 9:57:00 AM PDT by sandalwood
Why is sKerry having a news conference - anyone know?
OK, so who's in the pool? The bet is on: "What time is the Kerry 1:30PM Newsconference?"
I'll go with 2:25
I'm thinking 3:45
"Why is sKerry having a news conference - anyone know?"
A lot of funny replies to this already, but here's another guess:
To share, with the American people, his tips for the deer hunting he'll be doing plenty of this November?
His Daddy should've pulled out.
Wasn't there a thread about that a few month back??
Well, you've got a heap of choices (somewhere around 38 shots of being right on a given day, including all the :30 and :45 time zones).
An hour before the evening news.Then the media will harp on it all through the evening.
Surprise, It's his Global Pop Quiz.
To announce the Oct surprise---Tereeeezzzzas a man baby, YEAH!
http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/1222596/posts
That is a thread from last month.
WASHINGTON, D.C.-- The FBI has a backlog of hundreds of thousands of hours of untranslated audio recordings from terrorism 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. Fine, the agency's inspector general, found that more than a third of Al-Qaida intercepts were not reviewed within 12 hours of collection as required by FBI Director Robert Mueller.
"Our audit highlighted the significant challenges facing the FBI to ensure that translation of key information is performed timely and accurately," Fine said.
The audit was completed in July in classified form. The version released Monday was edited to remove sections classified as secret by the FBI.
Since Sept. 11, 2001, more than 123,000 hours of audio in languages associated with terrorism still had not been reviewed as of April 2004, the audit found. In addition, more than 370,000 hours of audio associated with counterintelligence had not been reviewed.
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.
The FBI also is not meeting Mueller's requirement that all Al-Qaida communications collected under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act be reviewed within 12 hours of interception. During April 2004, the audit found, 36 percent of such communications were not even received at FBI headquarters within 12 hours.
The audit found that the FBI still lacks the necessary language personnel to do all the needed translation work and that limitations in its technology -- especially in computer storage capacity -- also cause problems that lead to backlogs.
2:18 pm
"I am a gay elitist windsurfer"
"More then likely he needs to upstage his own VP selection. Heaven forbid someone not notice skerry's latest pedicure or athletic endeavor."
LOL Very good point. You know it had to kill Kerry to pick Johnny Boy. Edward's wife is even more interesting that Kerry's.
He must be just before me. Mine's at 1:30. (I'll bet he's getting a French manicure too.)
LOL good one. And if I may add to it...
And to announce that before he was against the deer hunting ammo he was for it.
Kerry to praise Allah and take Communion inside an abortion clinic.
"Kerry said there was a "long list of mistakes" that the Bush administration had made in Iraq.
"I'm glad that Paul Bremer has finally admitted at least two of them, and the president of the United States needs to tell the truth to the American people," Kerry said."
Your a traitor Kerry. Don't forget to mention your NVA praise in the museum.
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