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Re: FBI Faces Deep Cuts in Programs to Fight Crime
From: Scott Blomquist <scott () innertraditions com>
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 08:41:15 -0400
This has been the major topic in all the local (VT) news outlets for the last 2 days.
http://tinyurl.com/38q2h9 Scott Paul Ferguson wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Via The Seattle P-I. [snip] The Bush administration's 2008 budget cuts deeply into the FBI's crucial criminal program, further crippling the bureau's ability to tackle white-collar fraud, police abuse, civil rights violations and many other crimes, a Seattle P-I analysis has found. A larger budget battle is brewing between the White House and Congress, leading lawmakers to challenge the cuts to the FBI, which could take effect as soon as Monday, the start of the federal fiscal year. But the Democratic majority's spending plan -- under the ever-present threat of a presidential veto -- restores only a small fraction of the FBI agents needed to keep the criminal program at current levels. Through accounting sleight of hand, President Bush's plan concentrates the loss of thousands of unfilled staff positions across the FBI on its criminal program by transferring hundreds more agents to counterterrorism operations -- continuing a trend that started after 9/11. [snip] More: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/333503_fbi28.html So, couple that with Brian Krebs notes from earlier this week: http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2007/09/is_cyber_crime_a_distant _3rd_p.html ...when it comes to cyber crime, it looks like we're on our own. - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFG/IS4q1pz9mNUZTMRAog8AKCxW6CT1l7MZCDAXt5hcYB97NLM2ACffjJL N7+idHPRgT5GjbxGDYt3T+8= =0DC/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- FBI Faces Deep Cuts in Programs to Fight Crime Paul Ferguson (Sep 27)
- Re: FBI Faces Deep Cuts in Programs to Fight Crime Scott Blomquist (Sep 28)