Tracking the FBI’s Record of Failures
Re “New FBI Software May Be Unusable,” Jan. 13: It would require monumental effort, bordering on science fiction, to build a computer system sophisticated enough to track all the information in an FBI case file and monitor this information to predict terrorist acts.
FBI field agents and caseworkers need to be part of the front-end development team, contributing expert knowledge at the time of system design, and not just members of a test team commenting on the prototype. I fault the system contractor for not getting this type of expert information from the users at the very beginning.
Bill Robertson
Santa Barbara
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Just why am I not surprised by the ineptitude of a once proud agency now mired in an endless litany of foibles? From Ruby Ridge to 9/11, the FBI has produced little in the way of success.
Like the CIA, this organization needs restructuring. If not, we might get confused and begin to think that FBI stands for Fools, Buffoons and Idiots.
Anthony J. Frascino
Audubon, N.J.
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The loss of 170 million taxpayer dollars by the FBI probably will qualify it for President Bush’s Medal of Freedom.
Ritas Smith
Torrance
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Like the CIA, this organization needs restructuring. If not, we might get
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