Re: FBI Faces Deep Cuts in Programs to Fight Crime

[Scott Blomquist <scott () innertraditions com>]

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:
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> Via The Seattle P-I.
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> [snip]
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> 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
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