Posted on 07/21/2013 7:20:53 PM PDT by markomalley
The U.S. Marshals Service has lost track of about 2,000 encrypted two-way radios worth millions of dollars, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing internal records it had obtained through a public records request.
The paper reported that the problems date back to at least 2011, when the Marshals were deploying new versions of the radios to communicate in the field.
The Wall Street Journal said an internal technology office had warned about the issue, but the problems tracking the equipment persisted.
"It is apparent that negligence and incompetence has resulted in a grievous mismanagement of millions of dollars of USMS property," the paper quoted a 2011 presentation by the agency's Office of Strategic Technology as saying.
"Simply put, the entire system is broken and drastic measures need to be taken to address the issues ... The 800-pound elephant in the room needs to finally be acknowledged."
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
At the Federal Level of gov't?
Unprecedented and unexpected.
Sounds more to me like somebody stole them. One doesn’t just lose valuable equipment on that scale. Usually.
Oh, I’m sure they’re “LOST”.
speculation: terrorist cells working inside the federal government stealing whatever they need. This piece surfaces, but it is not hard to imagine how much additional damage is being done
Obviously “this began under Bush.” We’re just waiting for someone to say it aloud.
LEOtards.....
What would they bring on the black market?
I'm not going to hold my breath to see if that applies here.
Boy, a lot of U.S. Marshals have bad luck when fishin’.
Funny, they were here a minute ago.....
Yep. No one in that branch, ever foil wrapped “lost” commo equipment. Why would they? There is only one of two ways.
The term “government intelligence” is an oxymoron on a par with “plastic silverware” or “paper china”.
They were handing out free Obama walkie-talkies with every U.S. Gov’t ignored assault rifle along the Texas border.
I got mine.
The drug cartels are thrilled with their new encrypted radios......that, and all the free weapons given to them by ATFE have made their enterprises SO much easier to conduct./Sarc
I would guess Cuban or Venezuelan secret service is very well equipped communication-wise after this.
There are no accidents with this administration.
The cartels are offering rewards.
What is an ‘encrypted radio’?
Typically, these radios can be detected if they show up on the network and a signal can be sent to deactivate them, essentially turning them into an electronic brick.
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