Oops. Looks like those security moms are betting on the wrong guy to keep junior safe.
Three years after the Sept. 11 attacks, more than 120,000 hours of potentially valuable terrorism-related recordings have not yet been translated by linguists at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and computer problems may have led the bureau to systematically erase some Qaeda recordings, according to a declassified summary of a Justice Department investigation that was released on Monday.Yeah, I don't think so.
The report, released in edited form on Monday by Glenn A. Fine, the Justice Department's inspector general, found that the F.B.I. still does not have the capacity to translate all the terrorism-related material from wiretaps and other intelligence sources and that the influx of new material has outpaced the bureau's resources.
Overhauling the government's translation capabilities has been a top priority for the Bush administration in its campaign against terrorism.
