The FBI’s Upgrade That Wasn’t
As far as Zalmai Azmi was concerned, the FBI’s technological revolution was only weeks away. It was late 2003, and a contractor, Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC), had spent months writing 730,000 lines of computer code for the Virtual Case File (VCF), a networked system for tracking criminal cases that was designed to replace the bureau’s antiquated paper files and, finally, shove J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI into the 21st century. Full Story