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Inspector General Criticizes DEA and FBI in Progress Reports

The office of the Inspector General has issued a report criticizing the DEA for its report keeping:

Efforts by the Drug Enforcement Administration to target, disrupt and dismantle global drug-trafficking organizations cannot be measured and, as a result, it remains unclear whether the agency is adequately achieving its drug enforcement goals and objectives, a report said yesterday.

The Justice Department's Office of Inspector General said the DEA had failed to meet key aspects of the government's new performance-reporting guidelines, which focus on results instead of procedure, and that the agency's strategic objectives were "not quantitative, directly measurable or assessment-based."

The FBI didn't fare much better:

The Justice Department's Office of Inspector General, in a 145-page report, said that while the FBI made progress in correcting problems with outdated infrastructures, fragmented management, ineffective systems, inadequate training and problems with computer security, more work is needed to guard against terrorists.

"This audit shows that while some progress has been made, more needs to be done to correct deficiencies that we have identified in prior reports," Mr. Fine said.

...The report also said computer applications were not secure from unauthorized access.

We wish the Bush Administration would focus more on pushing its law enforcement agencies to make us safe and secure with the powers they already have instead of pushing so hard for legislation that will only make us less free.

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