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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."

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  1. The Government by WarpSnotTheDark · · Score: -1, Troll

    Baby I'm more than a little concerned you see about the New World Order conspiracies And the covert spreading of deadly disease They've got earthquake machines and UFO's and black helicopters wherever we go But I forget them all when you are with me They can telepathically read my mind I'm not scared of what they'll find Let them do what they're gonna do Cuz if the government can read my mind they know I'm thinking of you. They've got secretly funded internment camps and biological warfare labs But when you look at me they all don't seem so bad They've got Martian traded technology, and mind control psychology I'll let them do what they wanna do Cuz if the government can read my mind they know I'm thinking of you. I could stockpile food and join a militia but I'd rather stay at home and kiss ya Let them do what they're gonna do Cuz if the government can read my mind they know I'm thinking of you. If the government can read my mind baby you know it doesn't matter what they find Cuz if the government can read my mind they know I'm thinking of you. -The Vandals "If The Government Could Read My Mind"

  2. Re:And the problem is? by sgt_doom · · Score: 0, Troll
    The amazing thing is they have managed to keep anything from going FOOM! for almost six years....

    Hmmm...let's see: was there any such 9/11/01 attack prior to Bush taking office? No, only after. Hmmm...has there been another day - the first in American history - when a series of American military exercises (three in number) took place on the exact same day, in the exact same time frame, replicating the very terrorist attacks that took place that day? (That would be plane hi-jackings and planes flying into government buildings - with a biowarfare exercise going on in NYC that very same day - conveniently placing certain people away from the Emergency Ops Center at the WTC.) Negative on that as well.

    Gee...what a peculiar, mind-numbing set of coincidences which transpired that day - and only that day!

    Listen up you primitive screwheads, I really think we should be playing to win...

    Hmmm.....so let's completely destablize the Middle East by attacking the one secular country not involved with 9/11/01 attacks and which Osama (you might remember he's supposed to have something to do with that stuff) considers his mortal enemies. Next, the USA should attack Osama's second mortal enemy, Iran (again, another country which had nothing to do with 9/11/01 - I believe that was supposed to be the work of those Bush family friends, the bin Ladens)? Over 1/2 a trillion dollars spent - still no Osama and the Taliban are stronger than ever - but at least that drug trafficking is stronger than ever from Afghanistan - something which always occurs whenever a Bush is in - or near - the White House.