FBI Violates Privacy and Civil Rights Again

FBI Violates Privacy and Civil Rights Again

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WASHINGTON - The FBI improperly used national security letters in 2006 to obtain personal data on Americans during terror and spy investigations, Director Robert Mueller said Wednesday.

Mueller told the Senate Judiciary Committee that the privacy breach by FBI agents and lawyers occurred a year before the bureau enacted sweeping new reforms to prevent future lapses.

Details on the abuses will be outlined in the coming days in a report by the Justice Department's inspector general.

The report is a follow-up to an audit by the inspector general a year ago that found the FBI demanded personal data on people from banks, telephone and Internet providers and credit bureaus without official authorization and in non-emergency circumstances between 2003 and 2005.

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Who else is getting outraged by the continuation of our government violating our privacy and civil rights? This seems to be a growing trend in all branches of government.

What are we to do? Everyone always gets mad about it, we talk about it, it gets covered by the MSM and the gov just blows it off thinking we are stupid and continues on.

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[edit on 5-3-2008 by bakednutz]