“FBI will soon have equivalent of 20 pcs of intel on every American–and they share this broadly"

[kpete]

ACLU to Jim Comey: Welcome. Now Fix This.
By: emptywheel Tuesday September 17, 2013 11:07 am

...FBI collects Suspicious Activities Reports that duplicate — but lower the standard for — an existing database

Another major problem is that eGuardian effectively competes with another federal government SAR. The Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 established the Information Sharing Environment (ISE) to serve as the conduit for terrorism-related information sharing between state and local law enforcement and the federal government.114 A March 2013 Government Accountability Office report found that though the two programs share information between them, eGuardian uses a lower evidentiary threshold for inclusion of SARs, which creates risks and privacy problems.

The Government Accountability Office found that “many fusion centers have decided not to automatically share all of their ISE-SARs with eGuardian” because eGuardian doesn’t meet ISE standards.115 One fusion center said it would never provide SARs to eGuardian because of the fusion center’s privacy policy.116 The Government Accountability Office also found that the two systems “have overlapping goals and offer duplicative services.”117

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An FBI budget request for fiscal year 2008 said the FBI had amassed databases containing 1.5 billion records, and two members of Congress described documents predicting the FBI would have 6 billion records by 2012, which they said would represent “20 separate ‘records’ for each man, woman and child in the United States.”119

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According to a 2012 Systems of Records Notice covering all FBI data warehouses, the information in these systems can be shared broadly, even with foreign entities and private companies, and for a multitude of law enforcement and non-law enforcement purposes.133...

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Excellent Report from ACLU


On pages 32-33 there are examples of targeting journalists including the Fox reporter "committed a violation of the Espionage Act.." No reporter has been prosecuted for this, but....

Pages 33-34 section is titled Thwarting Congressional Oversight

FBI thwarts congressional oversight by withholding information, limiting or delaying responses to members’ inquiries, or, worse, by providing false or misleading information to Congress and the American public. These are but a few examples.

THE REST:
https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/assets/unleashed-and-unaccountable-fbi-report.pdf

[orpupilofnature57]

1. They have a word for that , FASCISM .

[Jackpine Radical]

2. All the better to suppress nontraditional political expression.

[Uncle Joe]

3. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, kpete.

[NuclearDem]

4. I've got nothing to hide.

And even if I did, Obama's going to be president forever. Besides, we already knew about this!

[WillyT]

5. K & R !!!

[Taitertots]

6. This is reaching a point where the power is too great to trust that it won't be abused

[orpupilofnature57]

7. 1961

[Octafish]

8. Let's see...Check the boxes that apply...

1. Republican. Libertarian. Or: Independent, Democrat, Socialist, Communist - Threat.

2. Respects Authority. Reviles Authority - Threat.

3. Makes more than $100,000/year. Makes minimum wage - Threat.

4. Never uses the word "Bankster." Uses the word "Bankster" - Threat.

5. Never uses the word "Warmonger." Uses the word "Warmonger" - Threat.

...and so on down the road to where the last ones left were those who thought they had nothing to hide, apart from a desire to be invited on board the lifeboat.

[Cryptoad]

9. Have any criminal charges been filed yet against the FBI for this?????? nt

[NightWatcher]

10. as soon as they prevent a crime (aside from their annual entrament stories) I'll be impressed

After the shooter has killed and is killed, no one is impressed when they roll out all the details of the person's messed up life that all but screamed "I'm gonna crack".

[Spitfire of ATJ]

11. More like 20 pieces of silver.

[Phlem]

12. K&R!

More and more of this crap everyday and me thinks this is the tip if the iceberg.

-p

[zeemike]

13. Oh don't worry so much.

Everyone will learn to love Big Brother eventually
But some may need a rat cage on their face.