WaPo - Documented Intelligence Abuses (PATRIOT)

[ancillaryidealist]

New Washington Post article detailing documented abuses discovered by an EPIC FOIA request.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/23/AR2005102301352.html

[Maddy McCall]

1. Any DUers recently move from New York to Detroit?

"In one case, FBI agents kept an unidentified target under surveillance for at least five years -- including more than 15 months without notifying Justice Department lawyers after the subject had moved from New York to Detroit."

Oh, and welcome to DU, ancillaryidealist. :toast:

[texpatriot2004]

2. Unbelievable. n.t

[ClintonTyree]

3. No one could have ever known.........

that given the broad powers of the "Patriot Act" there would be myriad abuses by those agencies who employ it. :eyes: Yeah....if you give people absolute power without oversight rest assured it's going to be abused.
Sweet jesus, our entire government is corrupt from the top to the bottom. The cancer isn't spreading, it's engulfed the government. Anyone who thought Watergate came close to destroying this country hasn't seen anything yet. I'm beginning to wonder if our country can survive the abuses by the bush administration and their agencies.

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. Really? Wow! After readying the Un Patriot Act

none of us could have predicted this :sarcasm: or for that matter readying about the early stories of this same abuse....

By the way, welcome to DU and merry fitzmas!