FB :also deadbeats

[magyar123]

(Jan. 11) -- Telecommunications carriers shut down some covert surveillance lines established by the FBI because the bureau failed to make timely bill payments, a Justice Department review found Thursday.

In five of the bureau's 56 field offices, an audit by the Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General found hundreds of delinquent invoices, potentially threatening the integrity of undercover investigations and resulting in an undisclosed amount of lost evidence.

"Late payments have resulted in telecommunications carriers actually disconnecting phone lines established to deliver surveillance results to the FBI," the audit found.

Evidence once was lost when surveillance established by a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act order, which typically targets suspected spies and terrorists, was "halted due to untimely payment."

[robivi3]

I work in a large Transit Agency, wife works for an investigative arm of the Gov't. (don't wanna say the Office, but ot's a big one. In-laws work in Corrections, one family member DEA, we are mostly gov't employees, along with several Cops. That is not an unusual story to us nor is it any earthshaker. Nearly all Government Agencies are slow payers, we get cut off by private contractors commonly, so do the others. Once the bill is paid the deliveries start again. To most Governement folk that is just a fodder story to fill news space.

And as most of you know the news that actually happened and what was reported are completely different. I have seen the laughable Local Fat Investigator dumbass here at our mishaps getting the report so wrong that it did not resemble the actual mishap. Laughably pointing out "experts and engineers" on TV when there wasn't a frikking expert or enguineer within ten miles. Getting the names of parts wrong, the incident wrong, etc...

I'll bet that phones in some Offices of the FBI were down but that the investigative lines were untouched. I'd be willing to bet that 70% of that story was fabrication built on one fact. I know that for my wifes Office the investigative section is self funded and that it is not in any way affected by the regular budget or TAX CUTS.

The news lies when they need fodder fill to take space.

But it is a cute one!!!!!