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FBI Violated Electronic Communications Privacy Act
An anonymous reader writes to tell us of a report from the Washington Post which alleges that the FBI "illegally collected more than 2,000 US telephone call records between 2002 and 2006 by invoking terrorism emergencies that did not exist or simply persuading phone companies to provide records." The report continues,
"E-mails obtained by The Washington Post detail how counterterrorism officials inside FBI headquarters did not follow their own procedures that were put in place to protect civil liberties. The stream of urgent requests for phone records also overwhelmed the FBI communications analysis unit with work that ultimately was not connected to imminent threats. ... FBI officials told The Post that their own review has found that about half of the 4,400 toll records collected in emergency situations or with after-the-fact approvals were done in technical violation of the law. The searches involved only records of calls and not the content of the calls. In some cases, agents broadened their searches to gather numbers two and three degrees of separation from the original request, documents show."
Obama is not the end all and be all of American government. He is no where near perfect but just because things aren't going the way you want them to doesn't mean he is solely to blame. There is an existing system that he has to work within. Now if you want W back or W 2.0(aka McCain) they would still be doing the exact same thing that W always did without any attempt to change at least Obama is making the effort and in many cases making improvements. For example he has given Iran the chance at talks which it claimed it wanted but has now proven it is hesitant at best(with good reason the U.S. has not always be the most forward negotiator).
every anarchist is a baffled dictator. Benito_Mussolini
sorry, even with that last sentence this needs an Offtopic mod.