FBI lags in translating audio from terror probes
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WASHINGTON - The FBI has a backlog of hundreds of thousands of hours of untranslated audio recordings from terrorism and espionage investigations, despite large increases in money and personnel for translations since the 2001 terror attacks, the Justice
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The FBI said on Thursday it may have to scrap a new &#36;170 million computer program designed to allow agents to share information instantly and fix a main problem identified after the Sept. 11 attacks.
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The FBI has built a database with more than 659 million records -- including terrorist watch lists, intelligence cables and financial transactions -- culled from more than 50 FBI and other government agency sources. The system is one of the most powerful data analysis tools available to law...
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Burnsville police have begun using an electronic device that translates English into 15 languages in just a few seconds, hoping to save time when questioning the city's Somali, Spanish, Russian and Southeast Asian communities.
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The FBI wants to compile a massive computer database and analyze it for clues to unmask terrorist sleeper cells. Two congressmen are worried about whether the bureau will protect the privacy of U.S. citizens.
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Telecommunications companies have repeatedly cut off FBI access to wiretaps of alleged terrorists and criminal suspects because the bureau did not pay its phone bills, according to the results of an audit released yesterday.
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The American Civil Liberties Union is seeking information from the FBI on why bureau task forces set up to combat terrorism also looked into anti-war, animal rights and environmental groups.
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Financial institutions charged with sharing data concerning possibly suspicious transactions are swamping investigators' abilities to effectively parse the information.
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The FBI has launched a new drive to  seek information from Muslim and Arab Americans to help thwart  any pre-election attack, a move some communities consider a  racist campaign which will not make America safer.
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Before I begin this week's missive, let me just say this: I'm glad to see that the FBI is turning to off-the-shelf software to monitor our conversations rather than spending more money on a proprietary solution. As a taxpayer, I appreciate that.
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The FBI knew about specific  suspected al Qaeda fundraisers before the Sept. 11 attacks but  failed to tackle the problem, the Sept. 11 Commission said in a  staff report released on Saturday.
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US prosecutors have found a possible translation error in a key piece of evidence in the case against two leaders of a New York mosque accused of supporting terrorism, a Justice Department spokesman said on Wednesday.
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U.S. prosecutors have found a possible  translation error in a key piece of evidence against two  leaders of an upstate New York mosque accused of supporting  terrorism, U.S. officials said on Wednesday.
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WASHINGTON - While the Justice Department has walked away in embarrassment from a major terror conviction in Detroit, the top FBI official there is insisting his agency likely thwarted a terrorist attack by arresting the four men who were prosecuted.   "You should be proud of the excellent investigative work conducted by the JTTF (Joint Terrorism Task Force) in Detroit, and everyone should recognize that their efforts may have prevented another attack," Special Agent in Charge Daniel Roberts wrote last week in an e-mail to his entire office...
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A key piece of evidence against a jailed mosque leader accused of supporting terrorism has come into question, with federal prosecutors acknowledging that a note found in a terrorist camp may have been mistranslated.
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CAIRO, Egypt - The voice sounded like the Al Qaeda (search) terror chief&#39;s, and the tape was posted on a site known as a clearinghouse for militant Islamic comment.
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The threat of a terrorist attack on the United States still exists, but counterterrorism officials say there is a conspicuous lack of intelligence "chatter" being picked up.