Latest Revelations on the FBI's Data Mining of America

An anonymous reader writes "You probably already knew that the FBI was data mining Americans in the "search" for potential terrorists, but did you know that they're also supposed to be looking for people in the U.S. engaged in criminal activity that is not really supposed to be the province of the federal government? Now the feds are alleged to be data mining for insurance fraudsters, identity thieves, and questionable online pharmacists. That's what they're telling us now. What else could they be looking for that they are not telling us about?"

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republicansarefuckingfascists

[OverlordQ]

Man, you know you're doing something right when you're the Minority Party and the radical left still blames you.

Nothing to hide

[Bombula]

As someone with nothing to hide, I have to say I don't have much of a problem with the government recording and listening to my phone calls, and I don't have a huge amount of sympathy for people who do. I suppose that makes me a bad person of some kind, but if they catch the guy with the suitcase nuke before he vaporizes LA and they catch the mutherfucker who took out to credit cards in my name last year then I could care less if they also bust people who are trying to cheat on their taxes who would otherwise have gotten away with it because of their privacy protection.

I guess I just care a lot more about truth than about process. That's not to say that process is completely unimportant, but I definitely fall further on the spectrum toward prioritizing truth. I don't think much of the 5th Ammendment, for example. Why should you be able to ask someone under oath, "did you kill him?" at a murder trial? I don't want to hear that the slam-dunk evidence against the pedophile is 'inadmissible' because cops didn't follow procedure. But I guess that's just me.

Re:Everyone is using data mining

[leereyno]

The vast majority of Liberals in America aren't trying to push anything anymore because they are not FOR anything. They've been reduced to a subculture defined not by what its members believe in, but by what they gripe about. Where it once was about ideals and noble intentions, profoundly flawed though they might be, now it's about grudges and grievances.

They no longer attempt to promote their own ideas, but they haven't quite reached the point of examining and revising the flawed assumptions those bad ideas are based upon. Their stuck in a limbo where they're not quite sure what they are for, but they have no doubt what they are against. This is why they you'll see them denigrating and casting aspersions at their traditional political foes, but without any attempt at promoting their own ideas or explaining why they are better. They've lost their capacity to build, all they can do now is seek to destroy.

Those among them who are intellectually honest and who value truth will eventually find their way out of the darkness and into the light. Unfortunately not everyone possesses these particular virtues, and for them I do feel sorry.

Re:What else are they tracking, you ask?

[dreamchaser]

Which is why the government just loves running our school system. Dumb 'em down right so they will be nice sheeple when they grow up, more concerned with buying the latest tech toy or fashion than in anything real going on in the world.