Thursday, January 10, 2008

Memo to American people: FBI can't pay their phone bill either.


Thinkprogress:
The AP reports that telephone companies “cut off FBI wiretaps used to eavesdrop on suspected criminals because of the bureau’s repeated failures to pay phone bills on time,” according to Justice Department Inspector General Glenn Fine. The “FBI’s lax oversight of money used in undercover investigations” resulted in “telecommunications carriers actually disconnecting phone lines established to deliver surveillance results to the FBI, resulting in lost evidence.”

6 comments:

Patriot Girl said...

"The report released Thursday was a highly edited version of Fine's 87-page audit that the FBI deemed too sensitive to be viewed publicly."

... too sensitive because then we taxpayers would then find out how much all the phone bills together are costing.

I find it amusing that they got their wires clipped.
;D Brilliant!

airJackie said...

Where did all the money go. The FBI had the payment in their budget but spent it on what. Are we now to pay the bill again.

KittyBowTie1 said...

Someone better check Rudy's security detail for his wife . . . maybe that's where the phone bill budget money went. . .

SP Biloxi said...

Rest assured, Rudy made sure that his shag fund was untouched.

KittyBowTie1 said...

The cat meant someone better check to see if Rudy took the FBI's phone money to pay for his wife's security detail.

See, that's more funny.

SP Biloxi said...

Hey,

Mines was funnier than yours. Are we competing here for brownie points? ;-)