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rulemylife -> RE: US Tries to Make It Easier to Wiretap the Internet (NY Times) (9/28/2010 3:04:54 PM)
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ORIGINAL: willbeurdaddy
Bullshit. There have been allegations, nothing has been documented as being an actual abuse.
I said I wouldn't, but it's just so hard to resist proving you wrong. Yet again.
Do you think that the admission of the director of the FBI and a Justice Department report qualifies as documentation?
F.B.I. Head Admits Mistakes in Use of Security Act
March 10, 2007 WASHINGTON — Bipartisan outrage erupted on Friday on Capitol Hill as Robert S. Mueller III, the F.B.I.
director, conceded that the bureau had improperly used the USA Patriot Act to obtain information about people and businesses.
Mr. Mueller embraced responsibility for the lapses, detailed in a report by the inspector general of the Justice Department, and promised to do everything he could to avoid repeating them. But his apologies failed to defuse the anger of lawmakers in both parties.
“How could this happen?” Mr. Mueller asked rhetorically in a briefing at the headquarters of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. “Who is to be held accountable? And the answer to that is I am to be held accountable.”
The report found many instances when national security letters, which allow the bureau to obtain records from telephone companies, Internet service providers, banks, credit companies and other businesses without a judge’s approval, were improperly, and sometimes illegally, used.
Moreover, record keeping was so slipshod, the report found, that the actual number of national security letters exercised was often understated when the bureau reported on them to Congress, as required.
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