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Miller unhappy with FBI

Rep. Brad Miller, a Raleigh Democrat who represents parts of Greensboro, has been keeping busy asking for stuff from the FBI. The FBI has kept busy not giving it to him and his colleagues. From this piece on the "Government Executive" website:

Nine months after House Science Investigations and Oversight Subcommittee leaders wanted details about the FBI's plans for a massive data collection and tracking program, little has been done to address their concerns. Investigations and Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Brad Miller, D-N.C., and ranking member James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., asked for a GAO report on the National Security Branch Analysis Center last June. House Oversight and Government Reform National Security and Foreign Affairs Subcommittee Chairman John Tierney, D-Mass., has joined their request.

The FBI sought $12 million for the center in fiscal 2008 to hire 59 employees, including 23 contractors and five FBI agents, according to the lawmakers' letter to the GAO. The effort would increase the FBI's ability to use "predictive models and patterns of behavior" to uncover terrorist sleeper cells, Justice Department documents said. The clearinghouse could hold 6 billion records by 2012, according to some estimates.

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