Catastrophic Failure

The Associated Press reports that, "Lawmakers criticized FBI Director Robert Mueller on Thursday for continued problems with their Virtual Case File, a computer project that was supposed to dramatically improve management of terrorism and other criminal cases."

"Catastrophic Failure," is how Sen. Judd Gregg, (R., N.H.), called the project which is to be the final piece of the overhaul of antiquated FBI computers.

Concerning the $170 million already budgeted and largely spent for the project, the inspector general said in a statement to the committee that,"we are not confident that the FBI has a firm sense of how much longer and how much more it will cost to develop and deploy a usable system."

So what to do now? Well, The FBI head Robert Mueller says that he will have a better idea as to cost and a timetable in a few months.

"Catastrophic Failure," indeed!