Justice Department officials have repeatedly said that there are safeguards that prevent the government from misusing its surveillance powers. But the FBI has been using “national security letters” to secretly review records of thousands of U.S. residents and visitors who are not suspected of being terrorists or spies, The Washington Post reported. Such secret reviews don’t require the approval of a prosecutor, grand jury or judge. What’s more, the Bush administration quietly changed long-standing policy to allow this information to be stored in government data banks, even when the citizens or companies are innocent of any wrongdoing.
Last month, a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit also revealed that the FBI has had hundreds of potential violations related to secret surveillance operations, including conducting clandestine surveillance on some U.S. residents for as long as 18 months at a time without proper paperwork or oversight, The Post reported.
Where are the safeguards?
Posted by Phillip Brownlee
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“Well I have done nothing wrong…Let them search!”.
With thousands of laws, how does anyone know they are not a criminal? Congaulations terrorists, you have distroy the American way. Bush helped you, hell Bush has done more damage then any planes.
The Constitution was shredded with Homeland Security and the Feds are building a Hoover data base. I know it is too much to hope that our duly elected representatives would do anything about it. They have too much dirt on them to speak out, lest the dirt gets public.
The sad this is that those who favor big government will refuse to see this as the natural consequence of their philosophy.
We need to treat politicians with the same disbelief we afford used car salesmen. They’re all trying to sell us that whooptie in the back of the lot, but this administration seems to have taken the art of selling schlock to an all-time low! Every time one of ‘em smiles, just focus on all those teeth, and don’t let ‘em get anywhere near your billfold area!
We need to treat politicians with the same disbelief we afford used car salesmen. They’re all trying to sell us that whooptie in the back of the lot, but this administration seems to have taken the art of selling schlock to an all-time low! Every time one of ‘em smiles, just focus on all those teeth, and don’t let ‘em get anywhere near your billfold area!
We need to treat politicians with the same disbelief we afford used car salesmen. They’re all trying to sell us that whooptie in the back of the lot, but this administration seems to have taken the art of selling schlock to an all-time low! Every time one of ‘em smiles, just focus on all those teeth, and don’t let ‘em get anywhere near your billfold area!
So, would it be legislating from the bench if some federal court found parts or all of the Patriot Act unconstitutional? If that’s legislating from the bench, then let’s have more of it !!
So, would it be legislating from the bench if some federal court found parts or all of the Patriot Act unconstitutional? If that’s legislating from the bench, then let’s have more of it !!
So, would it be legislating from the bench if some federal court found parts or all of the Patriot Act unconstitutional? If that’s legislating from the bench, then let’s have more of it !!
So, would it be legislating from the bench if some federal court found parts or all of the Patriot Act unconstitutional? If that’s legislating from the bench, then let’s have more of it !!
So, would it be legislating from the bench if some federal court found parts or all of the Patriot Act unconstitutional? If that’s legislating from the bench, then let’s have more of it !!
damn server
damn server
I think there’s an echo in here here here.
I think there’s an echo in here here here.
All these double-posts….. Hmmm. The various intelligence agencies surveilance programs must be bouncing of each other!