FBI Lied To Support Need For PATRIOT Act Expansion

[Araxen]

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/16/017219&from=rss

"It probably won't surprise you, but in 2005, the FBI manufactured evidence to get the power to issue National Security Letters under the PATRIOT Act. Unlike normal subpoenas, NSLs do not require probable cause and you're never allowed to talk about having received one, leading to a lack of accountability that caused them to be widely abused. The EFF has discovered via FOIA requests that an FBI field agent was forced by superiors to return papers he got via a lawful subpoena, then demand them again via an NSL (which was rejected for being unlawful at the time), and re-file the original subpoena to get them back. This delay in a supposedly critical anti-terror investigation then became a talking point used by FBI Director Robert Mueller when the FBI wanted to justify their need for the power to issue National Security Letters."

[Supersedeas]

1. but we have lawyers like Caproni demanded that we trust them

[libodem]

2. Go figure

[Raineyb]

3. What a surprise!

Not!

Someone better do some serious investigation come 2009 that's all I have to say.

Regards

[blm]

4. Robert Mueller is LONGTIME BFEE fixer. He was a US attorney during BCCI

and he just couldn't find anything in that massive criminal network to indict and prosecute.

Kerry took his mountain of evidence to a NY attorney general to get a prosecution on state crimes which was the only way to keep the case alive, especially since the Dem administration in the 90s had no interest in using his access to privileged documents or his DoJ to purue all the many outstanding matters of GHWBush's criminal BCCI operations.