Jonathan Alter on one of the many things making us less safe than we oughta be from terrorists: The FBI is still handling its data on computers not that much more sophisticated than the one I used to write Scooby Doo comic books in the early eighties.
Why is it so difficult to get this kind of thing upgraded? You'd think Dick Cheney must have one buddy in the computer business who'd gladly sell us $100 million worth of computers for a no-bid $2 billion government contract.