FBI Wants To Limit Document Searches

An anonymous reader writes "In what seems to be in opposition to the Freedom of Information Act, the FBI is seeking to limit document searches. It seems since now that a lot of documents are in electronic form, searching them is much easier than before, and for that reason the FBI is taking this action."

Comments

Re:first post!

[Tavor]

Doh. Forgot I had it set on "highest scores first"...

Re:Balance

[ScentCone]

The solution to this would supposedly be to not piss the terrorists off all the time...

Ah, great idea! In fact, why don't we see about actually pleasing them, instead? That would definately keep us out of any trouble with them. Espcecially once we've pleased them by making sure that all of our women are ignorant, house-bound, burka-wearing slaves, and all of our would-be musicians have been executed, and all of artists are doing only religious calligraphy (no drawings of people on pain of death!), and all of our ancient history - at least, that which celebrates anything other than their favorite myths - has been defaced or destroyed. Right about the time all that's taken care of, they should be happy, or at least not pissed off. Yeah, that's definately a fair trade for not having to be vigilant.

Oh wait... what if some other terrorists want it a slightly different way? Well, we wouldn't want to piss them off either. Gosh, this is complicated! Maybe we should just consider doing things our way! You know: liberty, democracy... all that noisy, crass stuff that most of the people in the world want, but which the extremists would like to squash. But let's not piss them off by doing anything about it. Maybe the braver people from the Ukraine or Georgia will help protect us - they seem to get the big picture.

Re:Not so bad, but not so good either

[radish]

All of which might make some kind of sense if the people in question (inmates at Abu Garib) were actually terrorists. They're not. Even by the US governments own admission these are people arrested for things like looting, stealing food, maybe being friends with someone the US doesn't like. Just imagine, if you will, being in their situation. Some other country has invaded your country, supposedly to "liberate" you. But your family is short of food so you go and take some from a burnt out supermarket down the street. The soldiers arrest you, and you vanish to this hell hols jail. Where a bunch of uniformed kids entertain themselves by abusing you.

How do you feel? Pretty pissed I would imagine. What the US is doing is wrong, plain and simple. Even if these people are involved with fighting (and I repeat, the US has itself admitted most are not) then they deserve a trial. What happened to justice? What happened to innocent until proven guilty IN A COURT OF LAW? Doesn't that apply to people with brown skin? Not to mention that the US has basically turned the whole of Iraq into one big terriorist recruitment camp. Don't you see how you're sealing your own fate to be fighting the absurd and useless war forever?

You sicken me, and I am ashamed to be part of the same species as you.