Seattle, Washington FBI Bureau File - Paperless Archives

Case #07-120588
May 24,2007 rev]
Witness Statement
Det.L..1 ___ ----I
Steve Hobbs:
Witness:
Steve Hobbs:
Witness:
Steve Hobbs:
Witness:
Steve Hobbs:
Witness:
Steve Hobbs:
Witness:
Did um ... had you already received the same sort of training before (unintelligible).
Not in such great detail. I saw the overview and the need for it in Baltimore.
Okay.
And the fellow that they had running that office urn .. .is kind of the upstairs office where
they really handle all the quality control for this ... not the state ... but for much of it. And
I think that he also does urn ... some of the kinds of lobbying that I had anticipated I
would do. So ... more interfaced with urn ... the political realm ... elected's ... official
people.
Do you remember his name?
Sorry.
That's okay.
I've got notes for that.
Okay. We may come back and find out. So ... do, do, was ... do you thinkl1-____ --I
training was ... was adequate and it covered what she needed to know?
Yes.
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Steve Hobbs: Urn ... during this process we'll just talk August ...
Witness:
Det.1
Witness:
Det.1
Witness:
Steve Hobbs:
Well actually there was a gap. Urn ... there was supposed to be a process by which we
um ... sent copies of the cards to Texas and that didn't go very smoothly.
You mean ongoing.
Mmhm.
Sending them or at the end?
Ongoing. And it wasn't ongoing. We shipped nothing while I was there.
So the idea in theory was to ship cards to Texas to be double checked for quality control.
Witness: Shipped cards to Texas ... yes. Where um ... they would be double checked. And urn .. .!
imagine data mining of other sorts would go on.
Steve Hobbs:
Witness:
And what uh ... why didn't that process get off the ground?
It was really the interface between our office and the UPS office.
Steve Hobbs: And ...
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