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| Cluster F | posted on 07-17-2001 @ 8:08 PM |    | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00  | I'm getting a little pissed off that the FBI cant even keep track of themselves. How are we supposed to trust them in a time of crisis. Bunch of fucking jackasses. Justice Dept: FBI Missing Computers By JESSE HOLLAND, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP)- More than 180 computers, at least one containing classified material, are missing from the FBI (news - web sites) along with some 450 weapons, officials said Tuesday. A total of 184 laptops are missing, including 13 that are believed to have been stolen, officials said. They said that in addition to one known computer containing classified information, three others that are missing might also have classified material. As for the weapons, some 184 weapons were stolen and 265 were lost, said officials, discussing the problem on condition of anonymity. They said some of the weapons were used in crimes. The revelation came on the eve of an FBI oversight hearing on Capitol Hill - at which bureau whistleblowers were scheduled to testify. The FBI has been under fire for weeks for missteps, including the failure to provide defense lawyers for Timothy McVeigh (news - web sites) with thousands of pages of evidence documents in the Oklahoma City bombing case. That problem forced a postponement of McVeigh's scheduled May 16 execution for the crime, and he was put to death by lethal injection on June 11. In connection with the problem disclosed Tuesday, Attorney General John Ashcroft (news - web sites) has asked the Justice Department (news - web sites)'s inspector general to do a department-wide review of inventory controls over guns and other law enforcement equipment. The weapons that are missing are mostly sidearms, officials said, but also include submachine guns. Questions about the missing equipment are sure to surface at Wednesday's hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee (news - web sites). Sen. Patrick Leahy (news - bio - voting record), D-Vt, the committee's chairman, opened oversight hearings on the FBI earlier this year after a series of high-profile mistakes, including the missing evidence in the McVeigh case and the discovery that veteran agent FBI agent Robert Hanssen (news - web sites) spied for Moscow for years. Hanssen pleaded guilty to several counts of espionage on July 6 and is to be sentenced in January. Wednesday's hearing, with FBI agents including Assistant Director Robert Dies and Deputy Assistant Director Kenneth Senser scheduled to testify, was to focus on the FBI's management but now will likely be dominated by questions about the missing guns and computers. About 13 of the missing weapons had been used in crimes, mostly robberies, FBI officials said. Bureau officials said that, altogether, the FBI has roughly 50,000 guns and 13,000 computers. The FBI has determined that 66 weapons were lost in connection with a retired agent and about four were carried by agents who were either fired or died, officials said. They also said that that some weapons apparently were lost during training operations with other law enforcement agencies - and said that laptops sometimes are lost as they are passed around from office to office. The missing computers and weapons were discovered during a comprehensive inventory of equipment undertaken at the behest of the Department of Justice (news - web sites) following the recent series of problems at the FBI. FBI officials said Tuesday the bureau tracks lost weapons, but also said this was first time that a serious effort was mounted to try to get a total accounting of missing equipment from all FBI field offices. This is not the first time the federal government has misplaced computers with sensitve information on it. The State Department misplaced a laptop with highly classified information in early 2000. The guns and computers reported missing Tuesday represent equipment that has been lost, stolen or otherwise unaccounted for over the last 11 or 12 years, FBI officials said. The FBI has ordered all field offices to do a comprehensive inventory of all equipment worth over $500 by Sept. 30. Components that fail to make the deadline could see their appropriations withheld, officials said. They also said the bureau will open criminal investigations into what happened to weapons that were given to some agents who have retired or been fired. News of missing FBI equipment follows a Justice Department inspector general's report last March showing that the Immigration and Naturalization Service couldn't find some 540 weapons. Justice Department officials said that 44 of the INS guns were found, 130 are considered lost or stolen and 119 were incorrectly reported as missing. The INS is looking into what happened to the other 246 weapons. "I firmly believe that any man's finest hour - his greatest fulfillment to all he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out, in a good cause, and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious." -Vince Lombardi | ||||
| Tequila Fez claims this land in the name of Portugal! Why worry about the train if it never makes it around the tracks?? IrishAlkey wuz here!!! | posted on 07-17-2001 @ 8:13 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Veteran Registered: Jan. 01 | SSShhhhh your gonna rooin it Whose computer do you think I have been using lately  AOL/AIM - oanda1027fm | ||||
| IkeaBoy P.L.F. Portugese Liberation Front- Liberating Status' everywhere from the Tyranny of Portugal I will die a traitor's death | posted on 07-17-2001 @ 8:23 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Veteran Registered: Sep. 00 | Well thank God we have that Star Wars missile defense system, right? Right? The narrator in Fight Club is the man we will be, Patrick Bateman in American Psycho is the man we want to be Eliza Dushku- Hotter Than Britney This message was edited by IkeaBoy on 7-17-01 @ 8:24 PM | ||||
| Sephiroth | posted on 07-17-2001 @ 8:26 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Dec. 00 | Its the chinese Spies. Its always the Chinese Spies.  Kill them all. All of them. Let the Blood flow. The Children. The Pets. The Friends. All of them. There are no Innocents. Finish them all I hate you. I hate everything you stand for. Please, for the love of christ, do not send me a E-mail | ||||
| WoRMFACE | posted on 07-17-2001 @ 8:46 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | yeah seph, wheres the shit? | ||||
| CriticsLoveSnatch i know better than to ask for a status from you mean ol' mods I shall call him mini-FTL | posted on 07-17-2001 @ 8:48 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | I KNEW i saw seph in times square selling FBI supercomputers for "20 dorra, vely good." Here's to the nights we felt alive Here's to the tears you knew you'd cry Here's to goodbye, tomorrow is gonna come too soon... Anyone else wanting to be adopted IM me at Jemo123 This message was edited by CriticsLoveSnatch on 7-17-01 @ 8:50 PM | ||||
| Sephiroth | posted on 07-17-2001 @ 8:48 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Dec. 00 | I gave you ther perfect set-up, and THAT'S the best you can do? Kill them all. All of them. Let the Blood flow. The Children. The Pets. The Friends. All of them. There are no Innocents. Finish them all I hate you. I hate everything you stand for. Please, for the love of christ, do not send me a E-mail | ||||
| The Painter 1/2 a bottle of Jack Daniels... it's a cure-all | posted on 07-17-2001 @ 8:48 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Sep. 00 | The FBI is inept. For this reason, they have turned into the KGB. If they can't do it right, they'll do it wrong. That should be illegal, but it's not. | ||||
| Bartman | posted on 07-17-2001 @ 8:52 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Dec. 00 | seph why did u still more laptops for the chinks again?? Visit my webpage you can also email me E-Mail Me | ||||
| Filzy Stand up straight Stomach in Shoulders back SOUND OFF!!! | posted on 07-17-2001 @ 10:25 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Sep. 00 | Notice this shit is happening more with Clinton appointed staff. And they say no hard feelings. How the f do you lose a whole bunch of lap tops ad fire arms? I don't think the chinese would run off with them, but the again, Clinton did appoint the head of the FBI. OR Hillary took them so she could get some more cash like the Money hungry cunt she is. *This is only a stupid conspiracy theory, do not take this post seriously. If you do, then you're on your way to developing unnecessary stress, which in turn leads to headaches, stroke, and heart problems because of believing this theory.  OA.com's headhunter and big brother to a select few One sucessful graduate: whichwaymediumorrare And a brand new headhunter in training: Short hills mall | ||||
| IkeaBoy P.L.F. Portugese Liberation Front- Liberating Status' everywhere from the Tyranny of Portugal I will die a traitor's death | posted on 07-17-2001 @ 10:33 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Veteran Registered: Sep. 00 | quote: Tuck your sweater in your pants, fill it up with laptops and firearms and then ask the security guard letting you exit to a frat party? The narrator in Fight Club is the man we will be, Patrick Bateman in American Psycho is the man we want to be Eliza Dushku- Hotter Than Britney | ||||
| njstrawberry | posted on 07-18-2001 @ 1:12 AM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Feb. 01 | quote: Most chinks sell computers and this is something new to you? Geeeeeeesh  I was bi when being bi wasn't kewl. Mmmm tastes like chicken to me, wanna lick? BALLOON NOT - DON'T UNDER ESTIMATE THE PSYCHO FACTOR IN MY HEAD | ||||
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