FBI Secretly Sought Info On 3,501 US Citizens Without Court OK

[kpete]

U.S.: FBI Sought Info Without Court OK

Friday April 28, 2006 11:31 PM
By MARK SHERMAN
Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - The FBI secretly sought information last year on 3,501 U.S. citizens and legal residents from their banks and credit card, telephone and Internet companies without a court's approval, the Justice Department said Friday.

It was the first time the Bush administration has publicly disclosed how often it uses the administrative subpoena known as a national security letter, which allows the executive branch of government to obtain records about people in terrorism and espionage investigations without court approval.

Friday's disclosure was mandated as part of the renewal of the Patriot Act, the administration's sweeping anti-terror law.

The FBI delivered a total of 9,254 NSLs relating to 3,501 people in 2005, according to a report submitted late Friday to Democratic and Republican leaders in the House and Senate. In some cases, the bureau demanded information about one person from several companies.

more at:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5787717,00.html

[Oversea Visitor]

1. Gestapo

:puke:

[ClintonTyree]

2. Those are the ones they reported.......

how many do you think went unreported? Twice as many at least, I'm sure. :grr: Fuckers!

[kpete]

3. exactly...

[MissWaverly]

4. Bush said they would only listen if Osama was calling you

If Osama called all those people, he would need an army of the "Can you hear me now" crowd.
This is ridiculous.

Miss Waverly

[DBoon]

5. Is Osama running a telmarketing campaign?

If he did, think of all the people who could be wire-tapped!

[MissWaverly]

6. either that or he's infiltrated weight watchers

You, see that overweight woman over on the bike, she only looks to be 5'3" - its him, I tell you.

[LuCifer]

7. how much you wanna bet that...

...3,501 of them were BU$Hitler critics???

[originalpckelly]

8. People think about this for a second...

Do you really think there are 3,501 terrorists in the USA?

In 2004, the last year there was an annual report to Congress, there were 1,758 FISA application approved. Do you really think there were 1,758 terrorists in the USA?

They must be getting a lot of innocent people in these searches.

Here is a link to the 2004 annual report to Congress on FISA applications:
http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/doj/fisa/2004rept.pdf