FBI Wiretap Finds Widespread Support for Patriot Act

[underpants]

http://swiftreport.blogs.com/news/2005/06/fbi_wiretap_fin.html

According to the results of an extensive FBI wiretap, Americans overwhelmingly support the Patriot Act and think the FBI should have even more power to listen in on their conversations, read their mail and follow their online interactions. The FBI plans to release the results of the wiretap, conducted on 1,200 Americans, to boost its campaign for expansion of the Patriot Act.


In conversations with friends, loved ones, 90% of Americans say they think FBI deserves more power

By Deanna Swift



We want more
In addition to enthusiasm for the Patriot Act, the FBI wiretap also turned up widespread support for further expanding the powers of the agency to peek into the lives of Americans in the interest of national security. According to the results of the wiretap, 73% of Americans believe that the FBI should have the authority to read the outside of mailed envelopes, a measure backed by President Bush.


Earlier this year, American Idol judge Paula Abdul became the first celebrity to feel the sting of the FBI’s expanded power. Ms. Abdul, whose voice mail messages and phone conversations with one-time American Idol contestant Corey Clark were the subject of a roving wiretap, was the unintended victim of a sting operation intended to sniff out Jordanian terror suspect Buelah Abdul. The messages were recorded by federal agents under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

[fooj]

1. Sure. And my name is Snow White!

:banghead:

[sui generis]

5. then you'd be interested in adopting

a snowflake!

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. the messages of an American

were taped under a FISA warrant... that is the newly expanded power of US traitor act

[ck4829]

3. Thank God It's Satire... Right?

[underpants]

4. Yes it is

but very funny IMHO

[izzie]

6. very funny and we do need a few roving wiretaps under beds.

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[IChing]

7. One of the best orwellian satire title for a post.

good satire and irony ...thanks for the good grin it gave me for the day.

[markus]

8. Funniest. Headline. Ever.

n/t

Actually, this thread: my yahoo email sig-line:

Notice: This e-mail is protected by the U.S. Constitution and the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights. Interception by any public or private agency is an ugly sort of work to be in. Does your mother know you spend your days reading other people's mail? Would she be proud of you?