Just how the fuck do you "lose" a motherfucking machine gun?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/07/18 ... f_laptops/
Oh... wait. My bad. That story was from 5 years ago.FBI ‘loses’ hundreds of laptops and guns Where did they see them last?
By John Leyden Published Wednesday 18th July 2001 10:47 GMT
An audit on the FBI has revealed it is missing hundreds of laptop computers, many of which are believed to have been stolen from under the nose of the agency.
Ashen-faced FBI officials have been forced to admit 184 computers are unaccounted for and that three of these machines are believed have sensitive material on their hard disks, and one is known to hold classified data. Of the missing machines 13 are believed to have been nicked.
To make matters worse 449 weapons - including some sub-machine guns among the cache of handguns- are missing from the Bureau's armoury, of which 265 were lost and 184 stolen, according to officials.
The frankly quite alarming losses came to light during the course of comprehensive audit of the agency carried out on behalf of the US Department of Justice.
FBI officials said that the bureau has roughly 50,000 guns and 13,000 computers, or at least they did last time they looked.
Last year the State Department admitted that it had "misplaced" a laptop containing highly classified information and agents of Britains security services have been known to leave laptops in Tapas bar after a night on the razz, so the phenomenon of spooks not taking care of PCs is hardly unknown. However the extent of the FBI's loss will be extremely hard for the agency, which is trusted with America's domestic security, to explain away.
The losses reportedly took place over the course of 11 years and are attributed a variety of causes including retiring agents keeping hold of weapons and the loss of laptops as they were been transferred around the different offices that shared them. This doesn't go anywhere near getting the FBI off the hook on the issue or restoring public trust in the organisation, which has suffered a series of setbacks in recent months.
Chief among these is the arrest of FBI agent Robert Hanssen, after his admission that he spied for the Russians for the best part of two decades, selling closely guarded secrets to the Soviet Union. The Bureau is also accused of screwing up an investigation into a scientist who is accused of stealing secrets from the Los Alamos nuclear research facility.
Attorney-General John Ashcroft is expected to make a statement on the missing equipment and the issue is sure the crop up when two senior FBI officials appear before the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee today. ®
THIS is the latest loss tally
1. If anybody but the FBI lost that kind of shit, the FBI would be fucking hauling them off to prison!FBI lost laptops, weapons, report says
One of the 160 missing computers had agents' names and addresses.
By Adam Schreck, Times Staff Writer
February 13, 2007
WASHINGTON — The FBI lost 160 laptops — including at least 10 containing sensitive or classified data and one with names and addresses of agents — sometime from February 2002 to September 2005, according to a report released Monday by the Justice Department.
Inspector General Glenn A. Fine also reported that 160 weapons disappeared during the same period.
Fine's report grew out of an audit examining FBI efforts to keep tabs on its equipment. Progress has been made, he said, but more must be done.
"This is a significant deficiency," Fine wrote in the report. "Without knowing the content of these lost and stolen laptops, it is impossible for the FBI to determine the extent of the damage these losses might have had on its operations or on national security."
The bureau has an inventory of 26,166 laptops and 52,263 weapons, according to the report.
One of the missing laptops, stolen from a facility in Quantico, Va., held the "names, addresses and telephone numbers of FBI personnel," the report stated.
Another, stolen from the Boston field office, contained software to create identification badges, and one taken from the department's security division contained a "system security plan for an electronic access control system."
The bureau does not know what sensitive or classified information was on six other laptops, and is uncertain whether 51 other machines — including seven missing from the bureau's counter-terrorism and counterintelligence divisions — carried such high-value data.
The security measures on FBI laptops include encryption software and passwords, bureau spokesman Paul Bresson said.
In a statement, FBI Assistant Director of Public Affairs John Miller highlighted the bureau's progress in reducing the loss of equipment and disagreed with the report's conclusions about the number of missing weapons.
"Nonetheless, we acknowledge more needs to be done to ensure the proper handling of the loss and theft of weapons and laptops, and the information maintained on them," he said.
A 2002 inspector general's audit found that 317 laptops had disappeared, along with 212 working weapons and 142 inoperable ones, during a 28-month period.
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2. It sounds like the FBI is FULL of dipshi- errr.... Agents just like Rack Fu
