F.b.i. Translating Over 1,000 Wiretaps A Day

[Shinobi]

FBI Translating Over 1,000 Wiretap Conversations a Day

U.S. News & World Report
Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Spurred by adding hundreds of new linguists and help from allies overseas, the FBI is translating a record 34,000 wiretapped conversations a month, bureau officials tell the Bad Guys blog. Long criticized for its lack of language specialists, the FBI, they say, is finally catching up to an unprecedented intake of foreign-language surveillance recordings, electronic data, and text since 9/11.

Most of the wiretaps are tied to counterterrorism and counterintelligence cases, officials say. Since 9/11, the FBI's counterterrorism agents, in particular, have collected a mother lode of intelligence. In a widely overlooked report to the Senate Judiciary Committee in November, bureau officials ticked off their counterterrorism take over the past four years:

519,217 hours of audio
5,508,217 electronic data files
1,847,497 pages of text

A July 2005 audit by the Justice Department's inspector general found that the bureau's counterterrorism audio backlog had doubled over the preceding year to 8,354 hours. But in their Senate report, FBI officials counter that the backlog represents only 1.35 percent of all the audio collected, and that nearly all of the agency's text and electronic data files have now been translated.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/febru...0207wiretap.htm

[Typhoid]

It truly is amazing how the general population of the United States (or any country for that matter) turns a blind eye to what their government is doing.

It matters not how many news broadcasts there are regarding things like this, people just sit in their living room saying "oh my thats terrible how did they manage to do that? Someone should do something." Yet, no one does. What will it take for the masses to rise up and take back the land of the free and home of the brave?

A war for an unjust cause didn't do that, nor did the breaking of constitutional laws by their own government. It makes me think sometimes..if these people refuse to do anything as they watch their nation be destroyed by the powers to be, do they deserve to be taken advantage of?

Makes you think sometimes, it also makes you vomit aswell.


- typhoid