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FBI Databases Used for Stock Fraud
Phronesis writes "The Associated Press reports that two FBI agents have been indicted for conspiring with the owner of InsideTruth.com to short stocks and then leak information from the FBI's internal databases (e.g., unpleasant personal information about corporate officers). They also allegedly blackmailed companies with the threat of revealing such information. This case illustrates the failure of law enforcement agencies to implement adequate protection against the abuse of information they collect."
Hmmm... these guys look like they were setup in order to cover someone else's ass (someone more powerful). If the FBI is engaged in insider trading---and don't believe it was just two "lone nuts", it's never the lone nuts---it's not much of a leap to believe that they were aware of and possibly involved in the well-documented insider trading that took place just before Septemeber 11. This, just on the heels of an official government admission of foreknowledge too! (Although, they're spinning it real hard so that they're incompetent, not complicit)
I met an ex-FBI agent who was fired for not altering his forensic finding on a death in LR, Arkansas.
They wanted him to change his report to "suicide" but he wouldn't so they canned him.
He had a similar experience when he worked for the DEA. He doesn't have kind words for neither the FBI or DEA.
Just wait until Oracle combines all of these separate agency databases into one huge one. I'm sure that centralizing all of that date will fix these abuse problems. Hey, the government needs easy access to your parking ticket history... just think how convenient it will be for them.
Now here is a troll I can admire.
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Even if Joshua did kick more arse in the Season Finale then she did.
No, it illustrates that, human nature being what it is, there are bad apples at the FBI.
The good part is this problem was caught and fixed. That's a testament to the relative openness of the US government.
Would all you folks living in other countries who claim "My government doesn't do that!" answer this question:
How do you know your government doesn't do things like this?
My impression of foreign governments is that they are more corrupt than the US because it's easier to hide (privacy laws to protect Europe's privledged classes), and more accepted (how many European countries allow their corporations to bribe officials in other countries? How many of them even go so far as to allow tax deductions for foreign bribes?)
Corruption is corruption. At least here in the US we do tend to rail against it and not accept it as "business as usual".