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OneMoreRobot3021



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FBI Wiretaps Cut Due to Unpaid Bills
#7859304 - 01/10/08 12:51 PM (16 years, 22 days ago) |
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hahahaha
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/01/10/fbi.unpaid.phone.bills.ap/index.html
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Telephone companies have cut off FBI wiretaps used to eavesdrop on suspected criminals because of the bureau's repeated failures to pay phone bills on time.
A Justice Department audit released Thursday blamed the lost connections on the FBI's lax oversight of money used in undercover investigations. Poor supervision of the program also allowed one agent to steal $25,000, the audit said.
In at least one case, a wiretap used in a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act investigation "was halted due to untimely payment," the audit found. FISA wiretaps are used in the government's most sensitive and secretive criminal investigations, and allow eavesdropping on suspected terrorists or spies.
"We also found that late payments have resulted in telecommunications carriers actually disconnecting phone lines established to deliver surveillance results to the FBI, resulting in lost evidence," according to the audit by Inspector General Glenn A. Fine.
More than half of 990 bills to pay for telecommunication surveillance in five unidentified FBI field offices were not paid on time, the report shows. In one office alone, unpaid costs for wiretaps from one phone company totaled $66,000.
The FBI did not have an immediate comment.
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BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAAAA
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it's about damned time some part of the gov't is not being able to spend (or in the case, steal) more money than they have
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Re: FBI Wiretaps Cut Due to Unpaid Bills [Re: Shroomism]
#7859327 - 01/10/08 12:57 PM (16 years, 22 days ago) |
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Shroomism said: BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAAAA
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Re: FBI Wiretaps Cut Due to Unpaid Bills [Re: WhiskeyClone]
#7859346 - 01/10/08 01:02 PM (16 years, 22 days ago) |
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LOL the FBI, such snobs.
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Re: FBI Wiretaps Cut Due to Unpaid Bills [Re: AlteredAgain]
#7859585 - 01/10/08 01:45 PM (16 years, 22 days ago) |
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Their undercover agenda is disrupted due to unpaid bills. Ha.
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Re: FBI Wiretaps Cut Due to Unpaid Bills [Re: Vibrate]
#7859674 - 01/10/08 01:58 PM (16 years, 22 days ago) |
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haha reality check for them!
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Re: FBI Wiretaps Cut Due to Unpaid Bills [Re: burgerpizza]
#7859782 - 01/10/08 02:16 PM (16 years, 22 days ago) |
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LOLOLOL
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Pay yer bills... . . .
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Re: FBI Wiretaps Cut Due to Unpaid Bills [Re: vinsue]
#17730789 - 02/02/13 03:33 AM (10 years, 11 months ago) |
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Re: FBI Wiretaps Cut Due to Unpaid Bills [Re: NWlight]
#17730834 - 02/02/13 03:47 AM (10 years, 11 months ago) |
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why so many FBI threads all of the sudden
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Re: FBI Wiretaps Cut Due to Unpaid Bills [Re: acidjoint]
#17730837 - 02/02/13 03:48 AM (10 years, 11 months ago) |
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