From 1.8 Million to Zero: Kash Patel, FBI Deliver a Monumental Win After Biden-Era Mess on DNA - Ben Smith

FBI Director Kash Patel announced Friday that the bureau has cleared a DNA processing backlog that once held nearly 2 million samples, ending a pileup that kept potentially useful profiles out of the national system used to help solve violent crimes.

• Patel said the backlog stood at 1.81 million samples on Aug. 1, 2024. 
• It is now zero, according to the director, after the FBI Laboratory Division added equipment, shifted resources, improved its information technology systems and changed how it tracked the work...