FBI Finds It Overstepped Bounds in Collecting Data 107
truthsearch writes with a link to a Washington Post article about an eyebrow raising internal FBI audit recently released to the public. The document finds that, contrary to a document release back in March, the FBI frequently overstepped its bounds in collecting data on US citizens. The article states that the organization may have violated laws or agency rules 'more than 1,000 times'. "The new audit covers just 10 percent of the bureau's national security investigations since 2002. The vast majority of the new violations were instances in which telephone companies and Internet providers gave agents phone and e-mail records the agents did not request and were not authorized to collect. But two dozen of the newly-discovered violations involved agents' requests for information that U.S. law did not allow them to have."
All that illegal information... (Score:5, Funny)
...and they still couldn't nail Tony Soprano. The FBI is a shadow of its former self.
x-files (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Compared To Bush's Wiretapping (Score:5, Funny)
Hey, we wanted a government that listens to its people, and we got one!
Re:Never (Score:5, Funny)
Rest assured that the rule of law is important to us & all will be well.
Re:All that illegal information... (Score:3, Funny)
Not only did they nail him, they had the evidence of it removed from the final episode. That's power!
Uh-oh! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Never (Score:1, Funny)