Tuesday, February 20, 2007

FBI Translating Over 1,000 Wiretap Conversations a Day

David E. Kaplan writes on the U.S. News & World Report "Bad Guys" Blog:

Spurred by adding hundreds of new linguists and help from allies overseas, the FBI is translating a record 34,000 wiretapped conversations a month, bureau officials tell the Bad Guys blog.

Long criticized for its lack of language specialists, the FBI, they say, is finally catching up to an unprecedented intake of foreign-language surveillance recordings, electronic data, and text since 9/11.

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