FBI Patriot Act probes underreported, audit shows

[KKKarl is an idiot]

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The FBI underreported its use of the USA Patriot Act to force businesses to turn over customer information in suspected terrorism cases, according to a Justice Department audit.

One government official familiar with the report said shoddy bookkeeping and records management led to the problems. The FBI agents appeared to be overwhelmed by the volume of demands for information over a two-year period, the official said.

The FBI in 2005 reported to Congress that its agents had delivered a total of 9,254 national security letters seeking e-mail, telephone or financial information on 3,501 U.S. citizens and legal residents over the previous two years.

Justice Department Inspector General Glenn A. Fine's report says that number was underreported by 20 percent, according to the officials.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/LAW/03/09/security.letters.ap/index.html
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Well this shows that Bush is so over working the patriot act that the FBI cannot even keep up. Congress needs to step & overturn this law.