FBI: Under the Gun over Security

[Desperadoe]

The FBI's efforts to overhaul the way it shares data on potential terrorists have fallen short. Will the G-Men ever get it right?

Darwin John had established himself as a bit of a miracle worker before being asked to lead an information- systems renaissance at the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

But John, former director of information and communications systems for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, needed divine intervention to help him navigate the politics, pressure and organizational malaise that he found upon his arrival in Washington. In May, John resigned as the FBI's chief information officer after less than a year on the job.

"One of the biggest lessons I learned was that finding terrorists and preventing attacks is not a science," John says. "It's an art. And you can't just throw technology at an art and hope it will solve the problem. It doesn't work that way."<snip>

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1265224,00.asp


I guess a "faith based FBI" just wasn't working. And Ashcroft wants us to give these guys more power?? Maybe they should hire some of those "laid-off' IT workers. Pathetic!!