BREAKING: REPORT SAYS FBI VIOLATED PATRIOT ACT GUIDELINES

[Bluebear]

WASHINGTON -- An internal Justice Department report accuses the FBI of underreporting its use of the Patriot Act to force businesses to turn over customer information in terrorism cases, according to officials familiar with its findings.

The report, to be released Friday, also says the FBI failed to send follow-up subpoenas to telecommunications firms that were told to expect them, according to several government officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because the report had not yet been released.

Overall, the FBI underreported the number of national security letters it issued by about 20 percent between 2003 and 2005, the officials said. In 2005 alone, the FBI delivered a total of 9,254 letters relating to 3,501 U.S. citizens and legal residents.

The Patriot Act, pushed through Congress by the Bush administration after the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks, allows the FBI to issue national security letters without a judge's approval in terrorism and espionage cases. The letters require telephone companies, Internet service providers, banks, credit bureaus and other businesses to produce highly personal records about their customers or subscribers.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/politics/wire/sns-ap-national-security-letters,1,6596473.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines

[Bluebear]

1. .

[saltpoint]

2. Repeal the Patriot Act? Impeach Dubya and Dick? Elect yet more Democrats

to both chambers of the Congress? A Democrat in the White House?

I got no problem with any of those projects.

[cal04]

3. wonder if this is part of it

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=2760410&mesg_id=2760410

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

4. They weren't errors.

The FBI is stiff with lawyers. No, that was intentional, with a plausible deniability factor built into the plan.

They knew exactly what they were doing.

[AlCzervik]

5. oh lookee--what day is the report being released?????

Newsdump.

[Bluebear]

7. Thursday :)

[originalpckelly]

8. Yeah, and even if they did do it tommorrow...

it would still make the Sunday shows. This is the day of cabal news. Anything gets used no matter when it's released.

[AlCzervik]

9. on Friday.

[originalpckelly]

6. Oh shit.

[Bluebear]

10. update

[originalpckelly]

11. I guess I have to ask: Why did they underreport it?

20% is a significant difference, but nothing that would have prevented Congress for re-authorizing the Patriot Act.

There's something going on here, the FBI doesn't just up and mess up reporting 20% of a statistic.

I wonder who those NSLs targeted.

I really have to wonder if there are that many thousands of terrorists in the USA, if there are, why aren't there attacks every single week?

I wonder how accurate they are in targeting people for these.

[lvx35]

12. Oh haven't you heard? Its because the FBI prevents them from attacking!

By disrupting their terrorist networks. The highest success rates of stopped terrorists tend to be radical quakers, extermist peace activists, and jihadist hippies...not to mention militant students of Gandhi. Without the complex and expensive activities of the FBI, these people would run wild, blowing up everything in sight!!!

:sarcasm:

[Golden Raisin]

13. IF, and it's a bif if, we survive the

remainder of Bush's second term, when the History books are finally written it will turn out that the extent of the illegal, warrantless spying on American citizens was on a scale none of us would have even imagined.

[Morgana LaFey]

18. The technology alone is going to surprise us, I think

Just a suspicion on my part.

[Solly Mack]

14. Imagine that - allow an inch and they take a mile

Whodathunkit?

Why gee...a lot of people did.

[ClintonTyree]

15. Merely a simple bookkeeping error....

nothing to see here. They meant to report all of them but it's SOOO hard to find good office help nowadays. :sarcasm:

[SalmonChantedEvening]

16. Couldn't be that they were investigating politacal enemies

That'd be SO out of character for this administration.

/end wisenheimerin'


:hi: :)

[ShortnFiery]

17. Oh No! Not our Agents Mike and Mary?!?

:P :hi:

[nadinbrzezinski]

19. Color me surprised

police state it is HERE

[lovuian]

20. FBI is the SS how did it come to this

the police force of the nation
gutted and destroyed by corruption

[Black Adder]

21. Jeezuz H., who coulda seen this coming?

Who could have foreseen that a law restricting civil liberties would lead to the abuse of civil liberties???:eyes: :eyes: :eyes:

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

22. Sheesh!!!! They even breached the unPatriotic Act!!!!

As if that 'act' wasn't bad enough!!! Talk about a serious abuse of power and violation of constitutional rights,...THIS IS AS BAD AS IT GETS!!!

Moreover, just imagine whose individual rights they violated,...duh, could it be political opponents in every shape and form?

This makes me sick as hell!!! There should be prosecutions for such grotesque violations.

[Bluebear]

23. Welcome to DU SSSnT! nt