From: "Robert G Lewis" 


"Phil Payne"  wrote in
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>> This quote below says a few agents were a bit slip shod in their work.
>
> HUH?
>
>> Over the entire three-year period, the audit found the FBI issued 143,074
>> national security letters requesting customer data from businesses.
>> The FBI vastly underreported the numbers. In 2005, the FBI told Congress
>> that its agents in 2003 and 2004 had delivered only 9,254 national
> security
>> letters seeking e-mail, telephone or financial information on 3,501 U.S.
>> citizens and legal residents over the previous two years.
>
> 94% not reported?  133,820 missing reports?  Those "few
agents" were real
> professional slip shodders.  I wonder if they slept.
>
>
 IF I'm reading the report right ,the actual numbers are not quite as bad as
the article indicates. The 143074 is for ALL NSL's, not just the ones for
US Citizens, Also the 143074 is for a 3 year period . So they only
underreported by 90848 during a three year period. It's still inexcusable.

http://www.usdoj.gov/oig/reports/FBI/index.htm has the PDF version of the
report. The numbers appear on Pages 38 and 39.

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