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FBI Releases Secret Subpoena Information
gollum123 writes to mention a CNN article, reporting on an FBI information release. The number of secret subpoenas the Bureau filed last year reached 3,501. These documents allowed access to credit card records, bank statements, telephone records, and internet access logs for thousands of legal citizens without asking for a court's permission. From the article: "The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, the same panel that signs off on applications for business records warrants, also approved 2,072 special warrants last year for secret wiretaps and searches of suspected terrorists and spies. The record number is more than twice as many as were issued in 2000, the last full year before the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001."
How people are there living in the US? The FBI only issued a little over 3,000 subpeonas. What are the odds that I (or any one of us) had our private info examined this year? I don't think they're high enough to worry about. How many arrests did the FBI make as a result of these warrants? That's the significant question here.
Its simple, the Left in this country cannot win elections. They are willing to put our national security in jeopardy just for some bad press on the current administration. In the same vein, the disclosure of our terrorist prisons in Europe should be treason.
I'm not not licking toads.
And yes, I am comparing the Cheney/Bushco cabal to the Nazis - the invasion of Iraq not to qualitatively different from the invasion of Poland. And if they nuke Iran, definitely in the Nazi mold.....