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FBI's IT Raises Red Flags for Senate Judiciary Chairman

Ben Bain writes on FCW.com:

The FBI’s past setbacks in implementing information technology upgrades and its recent abuse of national security letters to obtain data on Americans are reasons to be concerned about its efforts to construct the $1 billion Next Generation Identification (NGI) biometric database [See previous blog entries on the FBI's "Server in The Sky" initiative. - ferg] , lawmakers said today.

“The confidence and credibility of the FBI has also taken a hit as the bureau seeks to exploit increasingly potent technologies,” Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), the Judiciary Committee’s chairman, said in a prepared statement for the committee’s oversight hearing on the bureau.

posted by Fergie @ 3/05/2008 03:50:00 PM