FBI Finds It Overstepped Bounds in Collecting Data

truthsearch writes with a link to a Washington Post article about an eyebrow raising internal FBI audit recently released to the public. The document finds that, contrary to a document release back in March, the FBI frequently overstepped its bounds in collecting data on US citizens. The article states that the organization may have violated laws or agency rules 'more than 1,000 times'. "The new audit covers just 10 percent of the bureau's national security investigations since 2002. The vast majority of the new violations were instances in which telephone companies and Internet providers gave agents phone and e-mail records the agents did not request and were not authorized to collect. But two dozen of the newly-discovered violations involved agents' requests for information that U.S. law did not allow them to have."

Comments

Small potatoes, but from the same potato Bush...

[zooblethorpe]

Compared to the illegal wiretapping that Bush & Co. were/are doing.. this seems relatively small potatoes..

Might not be as major, but certainly worth pursuing, as it's another symptom of this runaway federal power binge that's really picked up steam since George the Second came into power. The FBI oversteps and Bush & Co's power grab are part of the same thing.

Incidentally, there's another George floating around in the Bush family, and he's young enough he might yet go for politics. The last time we had three Georges in power things got a little funny. Things are pretty bad this time around after just two. I'm feeling a little déjà vu for some reason... maybe because we're dealing with roughly the same issue -- "taxation without representation", i.e. the bullies in power overstepping their bounds, ignoring the stated laws / conventions, and claiming we owe them more than we think we do, and us with no real recourse. Hmmm...