More F.B.I. Privacy Breaches Reported

[cal04]

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Senate-FBI.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

The FBI improperly used national security letters in 2006 to obtain personal data on Americans during terror and spy investigations, Director Robert Mueller said Wednesday.

Mueller told the Senate Judiciary Committee that the privacy breach by FBI agents and lawyers occurred a year before the bureau enacted sweeping new reforms to prevent future lapses.

Details on the abuses will be outlined in the coming days in a report by the Justice Department's inspector general.

The report is a follow-up to an audit by the inspector general a year ago that found the FBI demanded personal data on people from banks, telephone and Internet providers and credit bureaus without official authorization and in non-emergency circumstances between 2003 and 2005.

[bobthedrummer]

1. But Brett Favre retired and Gary Gygax died yesterday and DU was moved...

:sarcasm:

[shance]

2. LOL! So true. The good ole Media Industrial Complex.

Quality coverage at its best.....

[sarcasmo]

3. We have been under surveillance to the extreme degree since the boy King has been in charge.

[bobthedrummer]

4. Yep, an example-politicized Neighbor Hood Watch groups

given local politicized law enforcement "assistance" and "equipment"...

That's been around for decades, COINTELPRO's were privatized long ago too...

[Jeffersons Ghost]

5. K&R!

:kick:

[Swamp Rat]

6. !