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Ichingcarpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-26-11 01:20 PM
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You do know FBI Director was appointed by Bush and admitted to breaking the law?
Obama asked him to serve two years past his appointment.


Director Mueller, along with Acting Attorney General James B. Comey, offered to resign from office in March 2004 if the White House overruled a Department of Justice finding that domestic wiretapping without a court warrant was unconstitutional


Gonzales, Mueller Admit FBI Broke Law

By LARA JAKES JORDAN
The Associated Press
Saturday, March 10, 2007; 6:06 AM


WASHINGTON -- The nation's top two law enforcement officials acknowledged Friday the FBI broke the law to secretly pry out personal information about Americans.

The FBI's transgressions were spelled out in a damning 126-page audit by Justice Department Inspector General Glenn A. Fine. He found that agents sometimes demanded personal data on people without official authorization, and in other cases improperly obtained telephone records in non-emergency circumstances.

The audit also concluded that the FBI for three years underreported to Congress how often it used national security letters to ask businesses to turn over customer data. The letters are administrative subpoenas that do not require a judge's approval.


The FBI is headed by a Bush Crony.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/10/AR2007031000324.html

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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-26-11 01:23 PM
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1. You know, there are just sooo many laws
It's hard to keep up with all of them, and can you really expect a busy guy like Director Mueller to keep track of all of them? Okay, maybe some laws got broken, but the people whose privacy may have been violated were all really, really bad. Or hippies. So it's really all right.
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Ichingcarpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-26-11 01:28 PM
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2. Not to worry we have Attorney General Holder
to keep him in check........LOL
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bemildred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-26-11 01:31 PM
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3. Laws are only for the little people. nt
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jtrockville Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-26-11 01:53 PM
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4. Laws? What laws? Those things are so first millennium.
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Freddie Stubbs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-26-11 02:18 PM
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5. If President Obama asked him to say on, doesn't that make him an Obama Crony?
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Ichingcarpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-26-11 02:25 PM
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6. Sub Crony?
I was being nice by not pointing out the obvious


It does not negate the truth that the system is corrupt.
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