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FBI loses laptops with classified information
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| 02-12-07
Posted on 02/12/2007 11:07:31 AM PST by mfnorman
Edited on 02/12/2007 11:12:50 AM PST by Admin Moderator.
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The FBI lost at least 10 laptop computers containing classified information during a four-year period ending in 2005, the Justice Department's inspector general has found.
The 10 were among the 160 laptops lost or stolen during a 44-month period ending September 30, 2005, Inspector General Glenn Fine reported. Along with the laptops, an equal numbers of weapons were also missing.
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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: espionage; fbifailures; fbiscandal; govwatch; gramsci; grossnegligence; nationalsecurity
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To: mfnorman
Okay, if the FBI lost the laptops, who is going to investigate their disappearance?
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posted on
02/12/2007 11:57:37 AM PST
by
Stonewall Jackson
(Captain, I must protest! I am not a merry man! - Lt. Worf)
To: milford421; FARS; Founding Father; LucyT; Calpernia; Velveeta; DAVEY CROCKETT
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posted on
02/12/2007 11:59:37 AM PST
by
nw_arizona_granny
(Pray for peace, but prepare for the worst disaster. Protect your loved ones.)
To: weegee
You forget that this is the FBI, they are easily the least tech ready law enforcement agency in the world. Listen to the Libby trial, they don't even tape record their interviews with suspects and they have lost the notes of the senior Agent In Charge. On 911 it was reported that fewer than 50% could even use a PC.
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posted on
02/12/2007 12:00:46 PM PST
by
q_an_a
To: weegee
That would be intelligent, so of course, it was out of the question : )
To: mfnorman
Headline =
I MEANT to do that...
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posted on
02/12/2007 12:02:14 PM PST
by
NordP
(America Votes: So sad to find out the majority is self-centered, short-sighted, and impatient.)
To: All
This is why I wish Rummy or Bolton would be head of FBI, now. This kind of crap wouldn't happen on THEIR watch.
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posted on
02/12/2007 12:03:45 PM PST
by
NordP
(America Votes: So sad to find out the majority is self-centered, short-sighted, and impatient.)
To: mfnorman
What ever became of security training and security procedures? Federals have decayed in competence quite a lot these past few years.
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posted on
02/12/2007 12:14:24 PM PST
by
GingisK
To: Lokibob
The gov't is sticker happy. They put property stickers on everything of value. Then inventory it once a year. If during that year, the property sticker is lost, or damaged, the item (a lap top in this case) is reported as "MISSING". Yup. Happens all of the time. Lots of lost stuff that isn't lost, just the person responsible doesn't know who it belongs to, or the sticker# was recorded wrong - leaving you with a missing object and an unrecorded object.
We have missing tanks and major vehicles too.
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posted on
02/12/2007 1:41:37 PM PST
by
lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
To: Plains Drifter
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posted on
02/12/2007 1:42:36 PM PST
by
mgstarr
(I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore.)
To: mfnorman
Let's check the semi-recent FBI record: attempt to frame Richard Jewel for Olympic bombing in Atlanta; smear Steven Hatfill as "anthrax person of interest." The not so recent record: Waco; HRT Snipers take out separatist's wife and 14 yr old son, and granting agent in charge a promotion - WOW.
Very little to defend FBI against actions that clearly do not reflect an agency that needs serious housecleaning, if not massive cuts in funding.
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posted on
02/12/2007 1:51:37 PM PST
by
zerosix
To: LurkedLongEnough
CNN, we know you're a little behind the "curve" of the news, but it's now 2007.The Inspector General reported this today.
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posted on
02/12/2007 2:01:19 PM PST
by
Doe Eyes
To: lepton
Once, I had an 18,000 gal fuel tank replaced. They forgot to drop it from the list. Next inventory, of course, missing.
I told the logistics guy that all they really were doing is keeping track of tags, not really the property. He got mad and told me that I had property to control, not tags.
I went to the salvage yard, dug around and found my old tank. I took the property sticker off it and handed it to the logistics guy. You would have thought it was Christmas, he was so happy. Then, in my "I told you so" voice, I said "see, you do only control the tags, not the property". I lost a friend for a week, till he forgot all about it.
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posted on
02/12/2007 2:17:33 PM PST
by
Lokibob
(Some people are like slinkys. Useless, but if you throw them down the stairs, you smile.)
To: Lokibob
I believe that is the excuse that was tried in Los Alamos.
I didn't buy it then either.
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posted on
02/12/2007 2:38:32 PM PST
by
Calpernia
(Breederville.com)
To: GingisK
>>>What ever became of security training and security procedures?
It was replaced with sensitivity training and tolerance procedures.
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posted on
02/12/2007 2:40:34 PM PST
by
Calpernia
(Breederville.com)
To: mfnorman
People in the fbi should be subject to the same laws as the rest of us. They should be sued for this.
To: lepton
The gov't is sticker happy. They put property stickers on everything of value. Then inventory it once a year. If during that year, the property sticker is lost, or damaged, the item (a lap top in this case) is reported as "MISSING". When I worked for Generous Electric I couldn't find a mysterious item with a property tag during the yearly inventory. I was determined to find out what it was and what happened to it. Hours later I found the property tag, checked it off the list as "one each", and thus the tagged building we were in did not go onto the "missing" list.
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posted on
02/12/2007 3:10:26 PM PST
by
Dumpster Baby
("Hope somebody finds me before the rats do .....")
To: Admin Moderator
I'm sorry, I didn't know that the picture I chose to post (#25) reverted to an ad for tripod.
Feel free to remove my post. Sorry for any inconvenience on my behalf!
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posted on
02/12/2007 4:25:10 PM PST
by
NordP
(America Votes: So sad to find out the majority is self-centered, short-sighted, and impatient.)
To: NordP
It does that because Tripod disallows linking directly to pictures hosted on their servers.
The correct procedure in this instance would be to save the picture to your hard drive, go to a free image upload service like imageshack.us, upload it there, then link it into your FR post.
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posted on
02/14/2007 5:17:51 PM PST
by
Terpfen
(Got a problem? It's now Pelosi's fault!)
To: Terpfen
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posted on
02/14/2007 5:21:11 PM PST
by
NordP
(America Votes: So sad to find out the majority is self-centered, short-sighted, and impatient.)
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