Records recently obtained by a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit show that the FBI has had hundreds of potential violations of surveillance rules, The Washington Post reported. Violations included conducting surveillance on U.S. residents for as long as 18 months without proper paperwork or oversight, obtaining e-mails after a warrant expired, seizing bank records without proper authority, and conducting an improper "unconsented physical search."
FBI officials downplayed the violations as mostly administrative errors. Maybe, but you don’t have to be a card-carrying member of the ACLU to be uneasy when the government keeps saying "trust us."
Posted by Phillip Brownlee
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Nothing new here except the technology. Government agencies have always abused their power and resources, right down to the local level. The IRS is probably the most abusive agency of the Feds and other agencies like the FBI feed off it.
If you have nothing to hide, don’t sweat the small stuff.
Who is unfairly in jail because of this? No one? Oh, OK.
Just like I hear that the CIA/FBI always listens to our phone conversation, either it be landline or mobile.
There is key words to trigger the red flag I guess. Like “Bomb” or others like that.
Opps! Red Flag!
BOMB,BOMB,TERROR,BOMB AND BOMBING.Just testing.
The Bush cabal of neocons and their israeli buddies do not respect a free society.
But, then again neither did the Nazis, which they learned all this from.
Joe Blow
Ya been to Gitmo?
Uh, Joe C., I think that’s exactly the problem.
We DON’T KNOW who’s been to jail over this.
BushCo. can do whatever it wants whenever it wants and put it all into the “homeland security” file–meaning don’t ask, don’t tell.
Ironically, the super-conservatives like the Montana Free-Men and the David Koresh’s have the most to worry about.
Finally, their paranoia about intrusive gov’t is realized.
News flash people. If you’re not doing anything wrong, why worry? The government doesn’t care who’s wife you’re cheating with, which neighbor’s newspaper you’re stealing, or what kind of drugs you’re doing. They’re looking for terrorists. Maybe seditionists, in which case a bunch of you are in deep hoo-ha. They don’t have time to chase down some hick in Wichita for running off at the mouth. But if they ARE reading this blog, they’re probably doing the same thing I’m doing, laughing their butts off!
B.A.
While you’re throwing the term “sedition” around, you’ll have to apply it to this communist traitor too–
“The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the Nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile.
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
“Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. For it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else.”
Theodore Roosevelt, Letter to the Kansas City Star during WWI.
If the feds are reading this then they can kiss my backside, twice!
Thanks Galahad. Just got here but I see you are using my name in vain as usual. But, just to earn my keep I gotta say something.
Yes Galahad, when you (and the rest of the folks here) help Al Qaeda spread lies about the president you are a traitor. Sedition is a bit weak.
Joe you’re right, sedition doesn’t really sum it up, but it sure sounds good. Kind of strange how much they fear OUR government.
Holy Joe C! Now that’s using your name in vain.
Getting angry about people like me who oppose the war may make you feel all self-righteous and smug, Joe.
But I’ve got news for you: the outcome of the war in Iraq will be determined by the Iraqi people. Your waving the flag for Bush and my bumper sticker that reads “get out NOW!” are not really going to change the outcome of the war one whit.
It’s in the hands of the Iraqis.
Unfortunately, you and the Bushistas think that if you can just keep the propaganda humming, everything will turn out all right.
REALITY doesn’t give one damn about what you WANT, Joe.
BTW, more than half of all Americans now say the war in Iraq was “a mistake.”
Why do Joe C. and B.A. not believe in respecting the will of the majority?
Galahad,Because they believe Thoreau’s “A man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one,” so they’ve moved as far right as they can!
Polls with loaded questions are worse than outright lies.
We were attacked Galahad. What kind of coward opposed retaliation?
B. A says “if you are not doing anything wrong, why sweat it?”
Well deal is we live in an us of them nation. Now right now, I would PROUDLY call myself one of “them”. I am in NO WAY with bush. I am 4 square against him.
Of course with folks like B.A. and “Joe” who have no easily seen identity and toe the line of the current powers that be, government information gathering is not a problem. In these blogs and I suspect in their “real” lives, they are no DOUBT good little toadies.
We are really through the looking glass when liberals have to enlighten conservatives as to conservatism!
Point is, just who and who is not an “enemy of the state” is a matter of perspective. Now to me, B. A. and “Joe” are enemies of the state. I am sure they see me the same. Right now, theirs is the party in power. They and those like them would do well to remember that this may not always be.
“Patriotism is the last refuge of scoudrels” I’m sorry I dont know the author of that, it is damned eloquent.
For a complete list of some famous “traitors” to a particular frame of government in a particular perspective, see signatories of the Declaration of Independence.