This is in response to a FOI request.
so what, the files are missing, what difference does it make.
"In response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, the FBI said it identified 94 leak investigations since 2001, but that the investigative files in 22 of those cases "are missing" and cannot be located. "There is no physical slip of paper on the shelf which indicates that the file has been charged out to a particular FBI employee, so therefore there is no way of knowing where the file may actually be," an official in the bureau's records division, Peggy Bellando, wrote in a December 22 declaration."
" Um, I suggest everyone go read the article instead of basing everything on a single sentence."
I did. And you are correct.
What looked at first to be FBI incompetence may be hysteria from the ACLU and the media.
The files pertain to closed investigations, not those currently being investigated by the Alexandria grand jury.
Might also be the result of the record keeping mess.
" Over the past decade, the FBI has waged an epic struggle to computerize and automate its records systems.
The agency abandoned a $170 million "Virtual Case File" project last year after years of Congressional hearings and critical evaluations led to the conclusion that the system would never be implemented successfully."
Or it might be the FBI "losing " documents temporarily to keep them away from the reporters and members of Congress.
As apparently they did in the 60s , according to one historian.
A federal judge ordered the FBI to produce the files in response to a reporter's inquiry into leak case prosecutions.
The FBI said they have other ways of finding the files and do not believe that they are totally lost.
the FBI said it identified 94 leak investigations since 2001, but that the investigative files in 22 of those cases "are missing" and cannot be located. "There is no physical slip of paper on the shelf which indicates that the file has been charged out to a particular FBI employee, so therefore there is no way of knowing where the file may actually be," an official in the bureau's records division, Peggy Bellando, wrote in a December 22 declaration.thats ok with you???