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| Today's Red Herring: FBI Gathered Phone Records Illegally |
| 2010-01-19 |
| The FBI violated the law in collecting thousands of U.S. telephone records during the Bush administration, The Washington Post reported Monday. Citing internal memos and interviews, the Post said the FBI invoked nonexistent terrorism emergencies or persuaded phone companies to provide information as it illegally gathered more than 2,000 records between 2002 and 2006. They even admit it's old news - The bureau said in 2007 that it had improperly obtained some phone records, and the Justice Department inspector general is expected to release a report this month detailing the extent of the problem. Documents obtained by the Post show that FBI managers as high as the assistant director level approved the emergency requests. Caproni said FBI Director Robert Mueller did not know about the requests until late 2006 or early 2007, after the inspector general's investigation had begun. Caproni told the Post that the bureau will await the inspector general's report before deciding whether disciplinary action is warranted. What a novel idea! |
| Posted by:Bobby |
| #3 The Govt (Any agency) wants to listen to my calls? Let 'em they'll be bored shitless. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2010-01-19 12:58 |
| #2 Diversion.. (I haven't even seen much/any of the Ft Hood massacre report that was issued last Fri nite. (Haiti, MLK day, Mass election, BHO anniversary tomorrow) |
| Posted by: Tom--Pa 2010-01-19 10:31 |
| #1 I'm not going to the link, but let's do some math - 2,000 "illegally gathered" records over 5 years. That's 400 a year, a little more than one a day. And how many records were "legally" gathered during the same period? And what's the ratio of the two? Again, without bothering to see if the WAPO gets the basics right, I'd bet this is a failure rate of something less than .1%. Statistical background noise, probably not noticeable even if you're standing there watching it happen. But I'm sure it's a nefarious conspiracy of some kind. |
| Posted by: Halliburton - Mysterious Conspiracy Division 2010-01-19 10:16 |