Re: FBI: You've Got Mail -- NOT!

[Jeff Rosowski <rosowskij () ie ymp gov>]

fbiagent306 () gmail com

> Sounds good to me. It means they save the huge costs of having an
> email account. Hopefully, they also take away their telephone, fax
> machine and allow them to use only one postage stamp per month.
>
> It reminds me of the Computer Crime Unit in 1990 or thereabouts, where the
> only computer they had between the lot of them was an Amstrad 1512 that
> they'd confiscated from a perp.
>
> On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, Fergie wrote:
>
> > This is, in my opinion, an outrageous situation if it is true.
> >
> > Via CNN.
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > Budget constraints are forcing some FBI agents to operate without e-mail accounts, according to the agency's top 
> > official in New York.
> >
> > "As ridiculous as this might sound, we have real money issues right now, and the government is reluctant to give all agents 
> > and analysts dot-gov accounts," Mark Mershon said when asked about the gap at a New York Daily News editorial board meeting.
> >
> > "We just don't have the money, and that is an endless stream of complaints that come from the field," he said.
> >
> > FBI officials in Washington denied that cost-cutting was putting agents at a disadvantage.
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > More:
> > http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/03/20/fbi.email.ap/index.html
> >
> > - ferg
> >
> >
> > --
> > "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
> >  Engineering Architecture for the Internet
> >  fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
> >  ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
> >
> >
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