Report: FBI getting lost in translations

[Quetzal]

Report: FBI getting lost in translations

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The FBI is collecting more foreign language material than it is able to translate, with audiotape backlogs now totaling hundreds of thousands of hours in material associated with terrorism and intelligence cases, according to a new report.

The report, released Monday by Justice Department Inspector General Glenn Fine, blames the FBI's backlog of unreviewed material on an insufficient number of linguists and limitations in information technology systems.

"Our audit found that the FBI's collection of material requiring translation has continued to outpace its translation capabilities," the inspector general said. "The FBI cannot translate all the foreign language counterterrorism and counterintelligence material it collects," he said.

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Report: FBI getting lost in translations

[LiberalVoice]

1. thats because....

most of the stupid shit they collect has anything to do with fighting terrorism...

[miss_kitty]

2. don't they encourage people to work slow and take long breaks

and erase their work after they go home, so they have to do it all over again? I mean, that could be slowing them down too

[KitSileya]

3. Well, if they didn't toss out their competent people...

I would feel some sympathy with them. But seeing as how they'd fire people for speaking the truth and being gay, and keep incompetents and possible traitors, I cannot say I have all that much sympathy with the FBI.

[bluestateguy]

4. Learn Arabic in college...get drafted

A warning for those of you who take Arabic in college, you are putting yourself first in line for a "special skills" draft. And during a draft there will be enormous pressure on Arab young people to prove their patriotism by either enlisting or compliantly answering the call of a draft. Those who resist will end up declared as enemy combatants and sent to Gitmo.

[leftchick]

5. didn't they fire a whole bunch of Arab linguists....

because they were gay?

[Moderator]

6. dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=868688