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Significant FBI Abuses of the Patriot Act
Noksagt writes "The Washington Post is reporting that recently discovered documents indicate serious intelligence violations by the FBI. This comes just months after the U.S. House voted to extend the Patriot Act, EPIC (the Electronic Privacy Information Center) has obtained documents through the Freedom of Information Act of thirteen cases of possible misconduct in intelligence investigations. The case numbering suggests that there were at least 153 investigations of misconduct at the FBI in 2003 alone."
Is anyone suprised by this? I'm shocked, real shocked. Who would have thought?
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I, for one, am aghast. Broad reaching powers being abused?! Inconceivable!
My patience is infinite, my time is not.
In other news: "Scientists discover the molecular composition of water"
In other news, water still wet, fire still hot, and bears DO shit in the woods. Film at 11.
Why yes, I AM a rocket scientist!
Would YOU trust an organization whose name is an anagram for "fib"?
Skype is too convoluted... Now I'm reverse-engineering the Kyoto Protocol.
Oh look it's the presidents speech writer!
I do not think that word means what you think it means...
The Congress doesn't have a latin motto over the door or anything like that. But maybe now with the Patriot Act they should have one. I suggest "Inter arma enim silent leges".
My suggestion is actually a kind of modification of the original idea to fit the present situation. When they drafted the Constitution, they wanted to focus "elite" interests more in the Senate, and it made some sense to give each of the states an equal position, but the states are now so unequal that the idea of equality between the states is fundamentally flawed.
I suppose you could do it by allocating the Senators based on the wealth of the states the way the House is allocated based on population. However, I feel like it's more honest to just make it a direct reflection of the money. If Microsoft has 5% of the wealth, then let's just give them 5% of the Senators.
Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
simple: hit people with power on the head with sign. Then sue them for damaging you property.
seriously.
"Things are more moderner than before- bigger, and yet smaller- it's computers-- San Dimas High School football RULES!"
Well, you know; most of us thought that the Patriot act allowed so much it would be impossible to actually breach!
Quick! Throw all your tea into Boston harbour ... isn't that how you guys normally deal with tyrannical regimes?
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. - John Lehman
The Family Entertainment and Copyright Act (FECA) has been amended
Sorry for offtopic, but whoever has come up with the name FECA, reflected very accurately the quality of family entertainment content nowadays...
harboUr?
Shuah, we put the tea in, but we took out 'u'. Most of us don't bothah with the ahhs eithah. The word is habah. So thayah.
"If you don't like our country, why don't you get out?"
"What, and become a victim of your foreign policy?"
Silly boy, has Papa Reagan taught you NOTHING? Have you not heard of DEFICIT SPENDING? Tax less spend more... they have a license to print money, they might as well use it! Nothing bad can happen here! Freedom!
...welcome our new FBI overlords.
an ill wind that blows no good
Well, maybe, but what the hell do I care? Now, let's see what else is posted to slashdot...
Similar to the upcoming US election results
I believe the correct phonetic spelling of "Boston Harbor" (based on how a Boston resident pronounces it) is "Bahstahn Hahbah"
I give your response a 7/10 for effort. Next time try going the extra mile, something like...
"We contacted one of those surveilled, by telescopes, for months without a warrant, and asked her what she thought. Ms. Deborah Johnston, 27, a blonde, heavy-breasted, and nude yoga practitioner seemed aghast. She was unaware of any surveillance, but said, 'I'm quite surprised! I have done nothing wrong. Why would they spy on me?' "
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing -- Emo Phillips
Yeah, it's hard to see the flaw in that logic. Who is actually surprised to hear this? Enormous police powers without judicial oversight, go figure.
Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "You have been touched by His Noodly Appendage..."