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2005-12-07 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by Pappy 2005-12-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The FBI seems to be perpetually 40 years behind the time. I wonder sometimes what is going on over there.

Posted by Thotch Ebbomoque7223 2005-12-07 06:52|| 2005-12-07 06:52|| Front Page Top

#2 Circle jerk with the CIA leakers. A match made in hell.

Posted by Unager Phique6562 2005-12-07 07:31|| 2005-12-07 07:31|| Front Page Top

#3 Some defenders of the FBI policy suggest that taping and transcribing interviews would become a logistical nightmare and a waste of money for an organization with 11,000 agents.

Yea, takes quite a while for them "Special Agents" to learn how to operate those new fangled tape recorders and steno pads. The bureau of idiots certainly knows a great deal about both "nighmares" i.e., 9/11, and "wasting money." I'll give them that. Trash the entire organization and start anew.

Posted by Besoeker 2005-12-07 08:26|| 2005-12-07 08:26|| Front Page Top

#4 Don't nobody tell the FBI about digital voice recording and computer-driven voice translation. Takes at least, oh, $100 for the DVR, $1,000 for the computer and $100 for the software to do that for an entire office.

Like I said, don't tell them.

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2005-12-07 08:29|| 2005-12-07 08:29|| Front Page Top

#5 Heh, Doc. By the time they finished writing up the funding proposal, it would cost $5K H/W (3 decent PC's) + $47.31M Consulting and take a whole slew of Arab-owned computer firms to code it up... wrong... wasting 2 or 3 years... having to be scrapped...

Posted by .com 2005-12-07 08:36|| 2005-12-07 08:36|| Front Page Top

#6 I guess the gmen still drive their late-model horseless carriages to work every morning...

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2005-12-07 09:55|| 2005-12-07 09:55|| Front Page Top

#7 Also:

...during federal trials of Osama bin Laden, Oklahoma City bombing defendant Terry Nichols, TV star Martha Stewart...

I must have slept through Osama's trial. Why didn't someone wake me up?

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2005-12-07 09:58|| 2005-12-07 09:58|| Front Page Top

#8 Just FYI, if you *ever* talk to a policeman, assume that you are being voice recorded with one of those small, inexpensive voice-activated tape recorders in his shirt pocket. Soon, probably a much-smaller mp3 digital recorder.

They usually do this mostly to get details for their paperwork later.

Importantly, it also helps that, by hearing the actual conversation, the officer can "sell" an arrest to other officers, detectives, and even the prosecutor, in a way a written record wouldn't "sell".

The rules of admissibility have also changed, so if you blurt out something without thinking, it might end up being used in court against you, even if you haven't been "Mirandized".

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-12-07 10:31|| 2005-12-07 10:31|| Front Page Top

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