This is one I find hard to believe. According to Mark Mershon, the assistant director in charge of the agency's New York City office, Federal budget constraints have deprived some FBI agents of e-mail accounts. What??
As Merson told the New York Daily News in the Wednesday edition, "As ridiculous as this might sound, we have real money issues right now, and the government is reluctant to give all agents and analysts dot-gov accounts. We just don't have the money, and that is an endless stream of complaints that come from the field."
Reached for comment, FBI officials in Washington downplayed Mershon's complaint, saying they are still in the process of assigning agents e-mail addresses. But such assurances did little to temper the disbelief with which the report was met.
"The FBI should have the tools it needs to fight terrorism and crime in the 21st century, most of all in New York City, and one of the most effective means of communications is e-mail and the Internet," said Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. "FBI agents not having e-mail or Internet access is much too much a pre-9/11 mentality."
The good news is that all FBI agents are required to learn Morse Code as part of their education. They just might need it.
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