Judge Orders FBI to Release Abuse Records 56
Spamicles writes "A judge has ordered the FBI to release agency records about its abuse of National Security Letters (NSLs) to collect Americans' personal information. The ruling came just a day after the EFF urged the judge to immediately respond in its lawsuit over agency delays. This is the same case in which an internal FBI audit found that the bureau potentially violated the law or agency rules more than 1,000 times while collecting data about domestic phone calls, e-mails and financial transactions in recent years."
Re:Great! (Score:5, Informative)
Given past practices, I have to say that I agree with that sentiment. I think the chances are good that the administration is just going to ignore the demands.
Re:It's just a matter of time. (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Great! (Score:5, Informative)
While the above might seem like cynicism, but the truth is that the FBI has been abusing its power for a long, long, time.
in 1971 the Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI [wikipedia.org]raided an FBI office and published over 1000 classified FBI documents, revealing domestic political repression campaigns such as Operation [wikipedia.org] Cointelpro [whatreallyhappened.com] A year later the FBI officially terminated the program.
The public outrage led to an official Congressional investigation of the FBI which gave a report in 1976 that had this [icdc.com] to say:
The report goes on to say:
Re:Great! (Score:3, Informative)
I believe that responsibility would then rest with the U.S. Marshals.
From Wikipedia [wikipedia.org]:
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