The FBI’s Computer System Is Still A
Monumental Failure That Is Once Again Behind Schedule
January 6. 2012
FBI Director Robert S. Mueller
I guess the FBI isn’t tired of failure. Recently, it was announced
again that their long overdue computer system (software and hardware) is
behind schedule and costing taxpayers a bundle, pardon the pun. The
Judiciary Report previously wrote about the topic: IG:
FBI Computer System On Track For Failure and FBI
Computer System Still A Financial Sinkhole.
Once again, years ago, the Judiciary Report’s sister site, the Sound
Off Column, predicted this would happen (www.soundoffcolumn.com/june_06.htm). When the site started writing
about the FBI, the law enforcement agency didn’t even have a computer
system or basic emails. Agents did everything by pen, pad and tape
recorder. The site laid out a plan for achieving a great computer system
and warned what not to do lest they fail and run into monumental delays.
The FBI didn’t listen to the warnings and the Sound Off Column’s
predicted worst case scenarios happened, leading to the U.S. taxpayers
getting burned big time, which all could have been avoided. When I write things it is for a reason. The FBI reads my websites
everyday according to site statistics, so they saw the suggestions and
have no excuse for running amok like they did.
At the end of the day, the U.S. taxpayers are left holding
the bag to the tune of a few hundred million dollars in wasted money via
the failed computer system. That adds to the national deficit. Do you
know how many jobs could have been created with that few hundred million
dollars.