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A 2TB hard drive costs $200 [1]. Why can't they just buy one and plug it in somewhere? This is a federal agency, not a small town's local PD. There should be
by csense 14y ago
A 2TB hard drive costs $200 [1]. Why can't they just buy one and plug it in somewhere? This is a federal agency, not a small town's local PD.
There should be an investigation into why they can't afford it, because their purchasing processes are either corrupt or utterly incompetent if they're spending budget-breaking amounts for 2TB. Or the lack of space could be a justification, while there were other, real reasons that the case was dropped, maybe political, maybe national security, maybe because the fugitive's friends bribed somebody. In any case, it sounds like there's dirty laundry to be aired.
[1] http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236187 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236...
- pavel_lishin 14y agoThere's probably a whole process for purchasing anything of the sort. First, it has to go through IT, who then has to justify it to their manager, etc., etc. Buying a drive could take months. And I would imagine that if you're a sysadmin at the DEA, buying a hard drive with your own money from Best Buy and hooking it into their storage system is probably extremely frowned upon. Furthermore, they may just have decided that it's not worth pursuing. He's not in the country, so chasing him down is difficult and expensive. The manpower could be used on other things. And he is wanted on other charges, too, so it's not like he can just stroll back into the U.S. and drop in for a friendly chat with his local DEA office.