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Washington Monthly, April, 2004 by Charles Peters
I'm indebted to Justin Rood, one of the Congressional Quarterly reporters who monitor homeland security issues, for this testimony from Robert Garrity, deputy assistant director of the FBI's Records Management Division: "FBI files are currently stored at one of 265 locations, including FBI headquarters, all 56 field offices, many of the larger of our 400 resident agencies, several warehouses around the Washington metropolitan area, and record centers operated either by the National Archives or the Records Technology Center on the East and West coast and at legal attache offices worldwide."
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The result, as you can imagine, is not the click-click, zip-zip, with information immediately appearing on the agent's screen that you would expect from television and movies, but "time delays," according to Garrity, that "mount as field office staff search file rooms, and then ship copies of the needed file or a prepared summary to FBI headquarters. This process," Garrity notes with gentle understatement, "dilutes the FBI's responsiveness."
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