Saturday, March 29, 2008

only users lose guns (& laptops): dea plagued by loss

only users lose guns (& laptops): dea plagued by lossfrom washington times: More than 90 weapons and 230 laptop computers belonging to the Drug Enforcement Administration have turned up missing over the past five years and, despite efforts by the agency to address weaknesses in tracking the items, "significant deficiencies" remain, a report said yesterday. The lost and stolen weapons include pistols, rifles, shotguns and a submachine gun, said a 105-page report by the Justice Department's Office of Inspector General The Drug Enforcement Administration's Control Over Weapons and Laptop Computers Follow-up Audit, Audit Report 08-21, March 2008 (1.08mb PDF), which also noted that DEA officials could not say how 198 of the 231 laptop computers came to be missing.

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