Feeling Secure?

From the NY Times
Three years after the Sept. 11 attacks, more than 120,000 hours of potentially valuable terrorism-related recordings have not yet been translated by linguists at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and computer problems may have led the bureau to systematically erase some Qaeda recordings, according to a declassified summary of a Justice Department investigation that was released on Monday.

Billions for tax cuts, Homeland Security spending to defend public libraries in Wyoming but we still can't be bothered to hire enough translators at the FBI to translate intercepted messages in a timely manner.