FBI not as incompetent as recent reports say
Declan McCullagh
declan at well.com
Tue Jul 24 20:53:36 PDT 2001
A broader point can be made as well. The Lee-Hanssen-labtest ancedotes are
just that. They may be important, but ancedotes do not by themselves
provide evidence of a trend.
To really evaluate the FBI, we'd need data like # of prosecutions, # of
prosecutions thrown out of court because of bad evidence, # of employees, #
of spies caught, and even more detailed info that would be tricky to
collect. TRAC does a reasonable job.
>But, all in all, I see no particular evidence that the FBI is in a state
>of moral or professional collapse. I think I'd rather have been working for
Right. They seem pretty much what they were a decade ago, when I first
moved to DC. And even though they may still lack clue, they're nevertheless
a lot smarter about computer "crimes" and what happens online. FLETC
courses, training manuals, Defcon presentations, etc.
-Declan
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