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sooz06

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Posted: 01/19/10 5:13 am • # 1

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I am far more surprised that the FBI is admitting its wrongdoing than in the fact of its wrongdoing ~ I have no clue what penalty might be charged against the agency, if any ~ I'm also very annoyed that telecoms were "persuadable" without the appropriate legalistics ~ Sooz

Report: FBI used ruse to get phone records
Published: Jan. 19, 2010 at 12:43 AM

WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 (UPI) -- The FBI cited non-existent terror emergencies to gather telephone records between 2002 and 2006, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.

Citing internal FBI memos and interviews, the newspaper said the bureau also acquired phone records -- about 2,000 in all -- by persuading telecom companies to turn them over in some cases. The Post said FBI officials authorized some operations after they'd already been carried out.

Citing e-mails it had acquired, the newspaper said counterterrorism specialists within the bureau failed to follow procedures that had been implemented to guard civil liberties -- and the number of urgent phone record requests swamped communications analysts with work that turned out to be irrelevant.

FBI officials told the newspaper a Justice Department inspector general's report this month is likely to find the emergency requests violated U.S. law.

FBI General Counsel Valerie Caproni told the Post the FBI violated the Electronic Communications Privacy Act by citing fabricating emergencies in records collection requests.

"We should have stopped those requests from being made that way," Caproni said.

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2010/01/19/Report-FBI-used-ruse-to-get-phone-records/UPI-81541263879823/

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oskar576

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Posted: 01/19/10 5:28 am • # 2

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USian government, politics and the media have become totally disgusting. Again, the best decision of my life was to leave that damned country.

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sooz06

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Posted: 01/19/10 7:00 am • # 3

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I view it another way, oskar ~ I'm sincerely and deeply happy that the ugliness is being exposed ~ while it is extremely distressing to learn how far down the rabbit-hole we traveled, it's the only way to clean it up ~

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oskar576

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Posted: 01/19/10 12:21 pm • # 4

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while it is extremely distressing to learn how far down the rabbit-hole we traveled, it's the only way to clean it up

Until such time as government officials (including pols) face the same consequences for breaking the law as does Joe Average, that ain't gonna happen.

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