FBI a ‘secret domestic intelligence agency,’ ACLU says

[unhappycamper]

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/09/17/202431/fbi-a-secret-domestic-intelligence.html



FBI a ‘secret domestic intelligence agency,’ ACLU says
By Sarah Sexton | McClatchy Washington Bureau
Posted on Tuesday, September 17, 2013

WASHINGTON — In the wake of the National Security Agency spying scandal, the American Civil Liberties Union shifted attention Tuesday to the FBI with a report that described the bureau as “a secret domestic intelligence agency.”

The report says that changes in law and policy since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks have allowed the FBI to expand its intelligence-gathering and investigative authorities, infringe on Americans’ privacy and evade constitutional oversight.

The report lauded the FBI for protecting the United States from criminals, terrorists and hostile foreign agents, but it said the bureau also has “regularly overstepped the law, infringing on Americans’ constitutional rights while overzealously pursuing its domestic security mission.”

Titled “Unleashed and Unaccountable: The FBI’s Unchecked Abuse of Authority,” the report makes 15 recommendations for changes at the bureau. The group released it as James Comey is in his first month as FBI director, in hopes that the new leadership would respond to calls for evaluation and reform.

[Eddie Haskell]

1. Top Ten

https://www.aclu.org/ten-most-disturbing-things-you-should-know-about-fbi-911

[AnotherMcIntosh]

2. What's worse is that every police dept. FBI-wannabe will want to and will spy upon us as well.

If the NSA can spy upon all of us, if the FBI can as well, there is no way that police chiefs and their underlings are going to not have the same ambitions and the same excuse: security.

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

[jmowreader]

3. They just now figured this out?