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FOIA: NSA Contracts Stored In Paper Files, Unsearchable, Unindexed

Posted by timothy on from the sorry-I-dropped-your-money-in-my-dungeon dept.

v3rgEz writes "Wish you were a little more organized? Have trouble finding that archived contract when you actually need it? Don't feel too bad: The National Security Agency has the same problem, claiming that its contract database is stored manually and impossible to search by topic, category, or even by vendor in most cases."

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  1. There really know why... by jcdr · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ... there don't want to be vulnerable to others agencies like them !

  2. Impossible to steal too... by skaralic · · Score: 4, Insightful

    On the upside, for the NSA, that makes a Snowden-like leak pretty much impossible.

  3. Refusing/Lying is illegal, being incompetent isn't by sandbagger · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's legally safer for them to say that they're incompetent.

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    ---- The above post was generated by the Turing Institute. Maybe.