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FBI Finds It Overstepped Bounds in Collecting Data

Posted by Zonk on from the back-over-the-line-you dept.

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."

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  1. Re:still breaking the law? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    What summary did you read? The one I read doesn't sound like that at all.

  2. But but but but... by presarioD · · Score: 2, Informative

    ...you've got "nothing to hide"(tm) so you shouldn't worry. Our comrades are after the "bad guys"(tm) only...

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  3. Re:Compared To Bush's Wiretapping by blhack · · Score: 4, Informative

    Compared to the illegal wiretapping that Bush & Co. were/are doing.. this seems relatively small potatoes.. Don't be naive, the United States (and pretty much the rest of the 1st world) has been wiretapping its citizens since the 70's
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    "Bush & Co" as you so elegantly called our Chief Executive and his staff, are just the first people to actually be OPEN about it.

    YOU INSENSATIVE CLOD!
    ;-), just cause this is slashdot.
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  4. Fascist America, in 10 easy steps by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2064157,00. html