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To: LindyBill who wrote (40468)	8/28/2002 4:24:53 AM
From: SirRealist	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

It's not too surprising that the FBI was unprepared, as it's entire history shifted from battling bootleggers, the Mob, digging up dirt on political leaders to maintain its muscle, infiltrated organizations considered socially subversive, got its horns clipped post-Nixon, and throughout and since, acted more like NYPD Blue than Mission Impossible. The CIA was more geared to foreign threats and its lapses in this arena concern me more. The FBI has to play quite a catchup game to get to the 21st century. On one specific note >>Shortsighted political leaders in Congress and the White House had already forced FBI agents to make do with low technology, including primitive computer systems that hindered data searches and couldn't "talk" with each other.<< I agree, but when recognizing that it wasn't till the Clinton admin that the White House got updated to the computer age, this is not so surprising. I think both parties were using slide rules and tin cans tied to strings before that. ;^)