Adding to my already growing disgust at life in general......
"The Government Accountability Office cited in its report several examples of U.S. agencies not cooperating, or even communicating, during overseas missions."
For example: "In an unidentified country, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials were assigned to track special-interest aliens while the FBI was in charge of identifying terrorists trying to enter the United States. Because of poor coordination and communication, both agencies moved in on the same person, possibly jeopardizing several investigations."
Gee I thought this was 2007 not 1999.
A key problem cited in the report, is that no agency is in charge of getting everyone to work together. And if one agency is, indeed, in charge, not everybody agrees on which one it is.
Where's the Czar guy?
The Justice Department said in February that the FBI was the lead agency in charge of terrorism investigations overseas. But the report found that officials working overseas — including in Justice Department agencies — disagreed. They said there was no lead agency coordinating overseas efforts.
No wonder the terrorists laugh at us.
"For example, in one country we visited with an extremely high terrorist threat, an FBI official told us that the law enforcement working group had never been asked to try to identify or disrupt any of the terrorists on the most wanted lists of the departments of State or Defense, or of the foreign nation itself," the report said.
OMG!!!!! I mean OMG!!!!
When asked to provide a list of key accomplishments from 2001 to 2005, nobody at State, Justice, or Homeland Security could do so because there is no system for documenting them."
What is this? The keystone cops???? We're doomed. I am officially embarrassed to be an American.
