"An obsolete computer system is also a problem for new-agents-in-training, or 'NATS,' as they are called at Quantico.FDR's War Department built the entire Pentagon in a shorter time, 16 months to be exact. I guess that's the difference between the "greatest generation" and the Bush(-league) generation.
'That is one of the big frustrations here,' said Supervisory Special Agent Karen E. Gardner, chief of investigative training at Quantico. 'If the American people expect us to connect the dots, we've got to train to do it. We don't have the computer networks here to do that.'
FBI officials said the bureau plans to build a multimillion-dollar state-of-the-art intelligence center at Quantico equipped with secure classrooms and classified computers. But it won't be ready for eight years."
Thursday, August 17, 2006
Governmental Inefficiency at the FBI
The Post starts a series on the FBI in today's world with a look at the training program for new agents at Quantico here--Old-School Academy in Post-9/11 World:
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An Kennedy's vision of a man on the moon in a decade would translate into somebody up there in 50 years under this administration.
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