FBI Lied To Support Need For PATRIOT Act Expansion

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "It probably won't surprise you, but in 2005, the FBI manufactured evidence to get the power to issue National Security Letters under the PATRIOT Act. Unlike normal subpoenas, NSLs do not require probable cause and you're never allowed to talk about having received one, leading to a lack of accountability that caused them to be widely abused. The EFF has discovered via FOIA requests that an FBI field agent was forced by superiors to return papers he got via a lawful subpoena, then demand them again via an NSL (which was rejected for being unlawful at the time), and re-file the original subpoena to get them back. This delay in a supposedly critical anti-terror investigation then became a talking point used by FBI Director Robert Mueller when the FBI wanted to justify their need for the power to issue National Security Letters."

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Re:more kdawson crap

[ta bu shi da yu]

I notice your signature says that:

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to think "profiling is worse than the slaughter of innocent people..."

Allow me provide you with a new sig.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to think "the September 11th terrorist attacks allow government to trample the civil rights of those of an obviously different ethnic background than yourself".

I would appreciate it if you could correct it as soon as possible. Thanx.

John

[jab9990]

We need to go after these traitors, prosecute them as traitors, convict them as traitors, and then hang them as traitors.