http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=68&ncid=68&e=2&u=/nyt/20030721/ts_nyt/reportonusapatriotactallegescivilrightsviolations<snip> (from near the bottom)
The inspector general said that from Dec. 16 through June 15, his office received 1,073 complaints "suggesting a Patriot Act-related" abuse of civil rights or civil liberties.
The report suggested that hundreds of the accusations were easily dismissed as not credible or impossible to prove. But of the remainder, 272 were determined to fall within the inspector general's jurisdiction, with 34 raising "credible Patriot Act violations on their face."
In those 34 cases, it said, the accusations "ranged in seriousness from alleged beatings of immigration detainees to B.O.P. correctional officers allegedly verbally abusing inmates."
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Hundreds of allegation dismissed without being sent to the IG? I was under the impression that the IG was required to at least examine the complaint when a complaint was filed, not that only "credible or provable" complaints were to be referred to them... what's up with that?