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Post by unlawflcombatnt on Feb 13, 2011 17:21:44 GMT -6
Apparently the FBI has used "Exigent Letters" to spy on Americans for purely domestic surveillance. The following is from Firedoglake: Update: Bob Schacht asked for more context, so here goes. This IG Report was the third DOJ’s Inspector General, Glenn Fine, has done on the FBI’s use of National Security Letters and “exigent letters,” though this is the first to focus almost exclusively on exigent letters. In 2003, the FBI installed representatives of AT&T and (later) Verizon and MCI onsite, with computers hooked up to their respective companies’ databases. Rather than using a subpoena or a National Security Letter to get phone records from them (both of which would have required a higher level of review), the FBI basically gave them a boilerplate letters saying it was an emergency (thus the “exigent”) and could they please give the FBI the phone data; the FBI promised grand jury subpoenas to follow.
Only, in many cases, these weren’t emergencies, they never sent the grand jury subpoenas, and many weren’t even associated with investigations into international terrorism. In other words, FBI massively abused this system to get phone data without necessary oversight. Fine has been pressing FBI to either establish some legal basis for getting this data or purging it from FBI databases for three years, and they have done that with some, but not all, of the data collected. But the FBI has tried about three different ways to bring this practice into conformity with legal guidelines, all unpersuasive to Fine. The OLC opinion is the most recent of these efforts.
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Post by unlawflcombatnt on Feb 13, 2011 19:01:28 GMT -6
Below is a link to the 199 page report from the Office of Inspector general on the FBI's national security letter policy: www.justice.gov/oig/special/s0703b/final.pdfIt appears likely that, after reviewing the report, that the FBI used National Security Letters to obtain information in non-terrorism cases. This means they were used for criminal investigations of ordinary American citizens who were not terrorism risks. And as best I can tell, they're still doing it.
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Post by mdub on Feb 14, 2011 1:57:57 GMT -6
To me it was obvious the War on Terror and the "Patriot" Act was a hoax. The biggest terrorists in the world are the governments of America, Brittain and Israel and the military industrial complex. Muslims are simlpy reacting to our aggression and control of their governments thru puppet dictators like Mubarak and others.
I recently read and article in the Washington Post where the governemnt admits that they are keeping tabs on Americans who support candidates like Ron Paul, Bob Barr, etc., who belong to anti-war groups, and people who oppose Israeli and US foreign policy.
We have parts of southern Arizona that are controlled by Mexican drug kingpins and kidnappers. Arizona has been pleading with DC to do something, but nothing happens. But they'll molest your kids at airports and say it's for national security. And from what I've read, the naked body scanners they use cannot even detect the powder that was in the alleged bomb that was the very reason for these machines.
These machines are there for 2 reasons - 1. To get Americans used to a police state and 2. To make money. Former Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff has a consulting firm whose biggest client is the company that makes these machines(Rapiscan).
Americans need to wake up to what's really going on.
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