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Feds Check Credit Reports Without a Subpoena
An anonymous reader points out that, by using National Security Letters, the FBI and other agencies can legally pull your credit report. The letters have been used by the FBI (mostly) but in some cases by the CIA and Defense Department. From the article: "'These statutory tools may provide key leads for counterintelligence and counterterrorism investigations,' Whitman said. 'Because these are requests for information rather than court orders, a DOD request under the NSL statutes cannot be compelled absent court involvement.'" Recipients of the letters, banks and credit bureaus, usually hand over the requested information voluntarily. A posting at tothecenter.com quotes the Vice President on the use of the letters: "It's perfectly legitimate activity. There's nothing wrong or illegal with it. It doesn't violate people's civil rights... The Defense Department gets involved because we've got hundreds of bases inside the United States that are potential terrorist targets."
Why is it that we have groups like CAIR and many others with known links to groups like Hamas and Hezbollah operating freely? Because few of the "anti-terrorists" really care about security. We have a situation with funding Islamic development and education in America with Saudi Wahabi oil money that is akin to allowing the KGB to openly recruit domestic operatives during the height of the Cold War--but you never hear a damn thing from democrats or republicans at high enough levels to do anything. It's all because... surprise, surprise... these people are invariably too stupid to understand the issue or too corrupt to care.
What blows my mind is that true subversives are allowed to operate freely. Groups like CAIR who have openly stated that their goal is to end constitutional government and replace it with Sharia are even courted. They are FUCKING SUBVERSIVES, not legitimate dissidents. Their goal is to subvert American government and end it as it currently exists. *Cue handwringing about McCarthyism, despite the fact that one of my relatives was actually on the blacklist...*