FBI Caught Committing Terrorism Within the United States -- Obama Has Their Backs

[Capers]

Generally speaking, terrorism is the illegal use of violence to persuade or incite a government or community.

It was revealed this week that the FBI has regularly used illegal threats of terror to subvert U.S. law.

By way of something called "exigent letters" and false threats of terror, telephone records have regularly been obtained by the FBI without subpoena or any other form of judicial oversight as required under the Electronic Communications Protection Act.

If that's not enough to make any real American cry, the Obama administration's Justice Department has assembled a brand new report clearing themselves of the terrorism they committed in their effort to subvert the Constitution.

When the fuck do the investigations begin?

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/01/fbi-att-verizon-violated-wiretapping-laws/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Index+3+%28Top+Stories+2%29%29&utm_content=Yahoo+Search+Results

[Capers]

1. FBI Caught Spying on American Reporters and News Organizations -- Obama Has Their Backs

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After saying he takes the issues “exceptionally seriously,” Mueller sought to downplay the severity of what happened. He said no exigent letters have been issued since 2006 and added that the information obtained through this method were call logs, not wiretaps.

The report from the Office of the Inspector General also details how bureau employees obtained the phone records of reporters and news organizations as part of investigations into leaks. Officials then allegedly made “inaccurate statements” to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court about the source of the records, which they used to gain permission for electronic surveillance.

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Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0110/31732.html

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When do these people go to prison?

[Capers]

2. Obama quietly continues to defend Bush's terror policies

Obama quietly continues to defend Bush's terror policies
Marisa Taylor, Mcclatchy Newspapers – 39 mins ago

WASHINGTON — Although the FBI has acknowledged it improperly obtained thousands of Americans' phone records for years, the Obama administration continues to assert that the bureau can obtain them without any formal legal process or court oversight.

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In another similarity to Bush era-legal decisions to keep legal theories under wraps, Obama's Justice Department refused to release to McClatchy the OLC opinion, despite the administration's vow to be more open than its predecessors.

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Privacy and open government advocates called on the Justice Department to release the opinion outright.

"There's a tremendous mystery as to what this legal basis is," said Kurt Opsahl , senior staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation , a nonprofit that advocates privacy protections for technology. "It does not seem like a legal justification should be a national security secret."

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20100122/pl_mcclatchy/3407632_1

[Capers]

3. FBI Director: Al-Qaida spreading, rebuilding

FBI Director: Al-Qaida spreading, rebuilding
Wed Jan 20, 10:14 am ET

WASHINGTON – FBI Director Robert Mueller says al-Qaida and its offshoots are spreading and rebuilding.

He says the U.S. dismantled much of al-Qaida's infrastructure in Afghanistan, but the terror network and its associated groups are rebuilding in Pakistan, Yemen, and the Horn of Africa.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100120/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_terror_hearings_fbi_1

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Do you believe him?

[lib2DaBone]

4. If Robert Gates and the CIA created the Al Queda.. they can un-create them..

I believe there are radical Shites who hate our guts because of our foreign policy and our support of Israel..

but Obama is not even thinking of chaging course.

[Tim01]

5. I used to think it is Bush 2.0

But now I am thinking there is no leading and no following.But rather traveling the same predetermined path.