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2008-03-13 17:09:36
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OH HAI! IM STILL IN UR CAMPAIGN, PRAYIN 4 ARMAGEDDONS...,
2008-03-14 21:11:49
30,000 Americans illegally spied on and robbed of their free speech in 2006 alone:
At least. This is just the illegal issuance of national security letters, not all the other warrantless surveillance programs they're running. But hey look! Numbers:
A report a year ago by the Justice Department's inspector general disclosed that abuses involving national security letters had occurred from 2003 through 2005 and helped provoke the changes. But the report makes it clear that the abuses persisted in 2006 and disclosed that 60 percent of the nearly 50,000 security letters issued that year by the FBI targeted Americans.
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According to the findings by Justice Department Inspector General Glenn A. Fine, the FBI tried to work around the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which oversees clandestine spying in the United States, after it twice rejected an FBI request in 2006 to obtain certain records. The court had concluded "the 'facts' were too thin" and the "request implicated the target's First Amendment rights," the report said.
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In total, Fine said, the FBI issued almost 200,000 national security letters from 2003 through 2006, and they were used in a third of all FBI national security and computer probes during that time.
Yee haw.
:: posted by buermann @ 2008-03-14 12:56:44 CST |
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