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Re: [privacy] Report Says FBI Violated Patriot Act Guidelines
From: "Brian Loe" <knobdy () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 08:34:32 -0600
On 3/8/07, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu> wrote:
On Fri, 09 Mar 2007 01:48:31 GMT, Fergie said:The FBI repeatedly failed to follow the strict guidelines of the Patriot Act when its agents took advantage of a new provision allowing the FBI to obtain phone and financial records without a court order, according to a report to be made public Friday by the Justice Department's Inspector General.Wow. Who could have seen *that* coming?
Yes, give a government tools and they will use them - often abuse them. What you seem to miss about our country, however, is that we find out about it. Who wrote the report? The government?! That says something. For most other countries, they only way you would ever hear about such abuse is a History Channel special, 50 years after the fact. Unless of course they go to war and get stomped, but then the US-haters would just ignore those gross instances of cruelty and talk about sovereignty, blah, blah... _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy
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- [privacy] Report Says FBI Violated Patriot Act Guidelines Fergie (Mar 08)
- Re: [privacy] Report Says FBI Violated Patriot Act Guidelines Valdis . Kletnieks (Mar 08)
- Re: [privacy] Report Says FBI Violated Patriot Act Guidelines Brian Loe (Mar 09)
- Re: [privacy] Report Says FBI Violated Patriot Act Guidelines Valdis . Kletnieks (Mar 08)