DoJ auditors have come to a startling conclusion. The revamp of the FBI Sentinel case file system is $56.7 in the red. The FBI had requested $150 million in funding but only $100 million was approved by the White House.
The funding concerns over Sentinel follow the FBI’s decision last year to scrap a botched $170 million project to build a paperless case management system. FBI Director Robert Mueller abandoned the project, called Virtual Case File, after consultants said it was obsolete and riddled with problems.Incoming Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont., questioning whether the funding gap would bring cuts to the FBI’s counter-terrorism programs, said “mismanagement of this project seems to know no bounds.”
Hmm, another financial nightmare in the offing? Nah, this is just more of a timing issue.
Tags: FBI, Sentinel, Funding Shortage, Department of Justice
