Fixing the FBI. Chitra Ragavan.
by Ragavan, Chitra; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2006Article 31Global Issues. Publisher: U.S. News & World Report, 2005ISSN: 1522-3221;.Subject(s): Intelligence officers | Mueller | Terrorism -- Prevention | United States Federal Bureau of Investigation | Virtual computer systemsDDC classification: 050 Summary: "On a cold January day two years ago [2003], FBI Director Robert Mueller strode into the executive briefing room of the bureau's state-of-the-art command center in the J. Edgar Hoover Building in Washington. Mueller had invited reporters for a special demonstration of a supposedly revolutionary records-management software package called Virtual Case File. VCF, as it is known inside the bureau, was intended to allow agents in the 56 field offices, more than 400 smaller regional offices, and dozens of liaison offices at U.S. embassies abroad to share investigative leads and reports and connect to government terrorism databases quickly and efficiently." (U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT) This article reveals that the VCF "has all but been junked" and discusses the implications of this failure and how the FBI is trying to make improvements.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Fixing the FBI, March 28, 2005; pp. 18-30.
"On a cold January day two years ago [2003], FBI Director Robert Mueller strode into the executive briefing room of the bureau's state-of-the-art command center in the J. Edgar Hoover Building in Washington. Mueller had invited reporters for a special demonstration of a supposedly revolutionary records-management software package called Virtual Case File. VCF, as it is known inside the bureau, was intended to allow agents in the 56 field offices, more than 400 smaller regional offices, and dozens of liaison offices at U.S. embassies abroad to share investigative leads and reports and connect to government terrorism databases quickly and efficiently." (U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT) This article reveals that the VCF "has all but been junked" and discusses the implications of this failure and how the FBI is trying to make improvements.
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