FBI Chief Confirms Misuse of Subpoenas

FBI Chief Confirms Misuse of Subpoenas

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By Dan Eggen
The Washington Post

Thursday 06 March 2008

Security letters used to get personal data.

FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III told senators yesterday that agents improperly used a type of administrative subpoena to obtain personal data about Americans until internal reforms were enacted last year.

Mueller said a forthcoming report from the Justice Department's inspector general will find that abuses recurred in the agency's use of national security letters in 2006, echoing similar problems to those identified in earlier audits.

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Note: there is in suggestion that this is about terrorism... though that is probably what they would claim if pressed.

Now I don't know about you but the only "proof" we have that this still isn't going on is their word about it.

Who wants to bet that those Americians that they were spying on were bush administration critics and anti war activitists?

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