Senate Judiciary: "Oversight of the Federal Bureau of Investigation "

[L. Coyote]

Anyone watch this?

http://judiciary.senate.gov/hearings/hearing.cfm?id=3530

September 17, 2008 = 9:30 a.m.
The Honorable Robert S. Mueller, III
Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation

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HOUSE: Oversight Hearing on: The Federal Bureau of Investigation
Tuesday 09/16/2008 - 10:00 AM
http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/hear_090916.html


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FBI chief: Rules would help root out terrorists
LARA JAKES JORDAN - http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g47MjmQLxrf1naXyb-5ddc0vU4uAD9380O2O0

WASHINGTON (AP) -- New rules for national security investigations will help protect Americans from terror attacks, FBI Director Robert Mueller told lawmakers Tuesday, even if they single out people from the Middle East.

Skeptical Democrats clashed with Mueller, who told the House Judiciary Committee that FBI agents would no longer need solid evidence or allegations of wrongdoing to spy on Americans even before opening investigations. Democrats also expressed doubts that the Justice Department and FBI would protect civil liberties and privacy rights after years of previous abuses and stymied congressional oversight.

During nearly two hours of testimony, Mueller described the tentative rules - known as the attorney general's guidelines - as a proactive way to prevent another 9/11.

The new rules would ensure that suspicious behavior is investigated, Mueller said .....

[spanone]

1. i'm speechless at what has become of our democracy

[midnight]

2. It is alright to ignore full blown threats to our National Securtity.

But, suspicious behavior won't. Now I want to know what is suspicious behavior? Buying hummus?

[L. Coyote]

3. Senate Judiciary: “Restoring the Rule of Law” hearing WEBCast

“Restoring the Rule of Law”
Senate Judiciary Committee
Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Property Rights
DATE: September 16, 2008 - 10:15 AM

View a webcast of this hearing = http://judiciary.senate.gov/hearings/hearing.cfm?id=3550

The Senate Committee on the Judiciary has scheduled a hearing before the Subcommittee on the Constitution on "Restoring the Rule of Law" for Tuesday, September 16, 2008, at 10:15 a.m. in Room 216 of the Hart Senate Office Building.

Chairman Feingold will preside.

By order of the Chairman

Witness List

Panel I

Charles J. Cooper
Partner, Cooper & Kirk, PLLC
Washington, DC

The Honorable Mickey Edwards
Board of Directors, The Constitution Project
Lecturer, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
Former Member of Congress (R-OK), 1977-1993, and Former Chairman of the House Republican Policy Committee
Washington, DC

Harold Hongju Koh
Dean and Gerard C. & Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law
Yale Law School
New Haven, CT

Frederick A.O. Schwarz Jr.
Senior Counsel
Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law
New York, NY

Robert Turner
Professor, General Faculty
Associate Director, Center for National Security Law
University of Virginia School of Law
Charlottesville, VA

Panel II

Walter Dellinger
Partner, O'Melveny & Myers, LLP
Visiting Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Former Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel (1993-1996)
Former Acting Solicitor General, (1996-1997)
Chapel Hill, NC

Elisa Massimino
Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director
Human Rights First
Washington, DC

Patrick F. Philbin
Partner, Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Washington, DC

John D. Podesta
President and CEO, Center for American Progress Action Fund
Washington, DC

Kyndra Rotunda
Chapman University School of Law
One University Drive
Orange, CA

Suzanne E. Spaulding
Principal
Bingham Consulting Group
Washington, DC

[L. Coyote]

4. Lawmakers Question Results of Anthrax Investigation

Lawmakers Question Results of Anthrax Investigation
Sen. Leahy Says He Thinks Ivins Had Help With Attacks

By Carrie Johnson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, September 17, 2008; 11:25 AM

Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) told FBI leaders this morning that he does not believe "in any way shape or manner" that lead anthrax suspect Bruce E. Ivins acted alone.

Leahy, an intended recipient of one of the anthrax-packed 2001 letters, publicly cast doubt on the bureau's conclusion last month that the bioweapons researcher carried out the notorious attacks as the sole culprit.

"I believe there are others involved either as accessories before or after the fact," Leahy told FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III this morning at a committee hearing. "I believe there are others out there who should be charged with murder."

The statements by Leahy, who along with other legislators has received a series of closed door briefings on the case since Ivins's July 29 death by suicide, mark the strongest sign to date that doubts remain about the seven-year Amerithrax probe. ......

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5. House Judiciary: "Oversight of the Federal Bureau of Investigation "

Oversight Hearing on: The Federal Bureau of Investigation
Tuesday 09/16/2008 - 10:00 AM

http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/hear_090916.html

[L. Coyote]

6. Testimony: FBI’s Mueller talks biometrics

Testimony: FBI’s Mueller talks biometrics
September 17, 2008 in News - http://www.thirdfactor.com/2008/09/17/Testimony-fbis-mueller-talks-biometrics


FBI Director Robert Mueller testified in front of the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on the Judiciary about the IT advance the agency is making.

Of particular note is the FBI’s Next Generation Identification system that will add other biometric technologies and information to the criminal database. “It will also produce faster returns of information, enabling law enforcement and counterterrorism officials to make tactical decisions in the field,” he said.

As criminals are becoming more advanced law enforcement need to step create more advanced technology. “Criminals ranging from identity thieves to document forgers to terrorists are taking advantage of modern technology to shield their identities and activities. This trend will only accelerate. And so our new system will include not just fingerprints, but additional biometric data from criminals and terrorists. It will give us—and all our law enforcement and intelligence partners—bigger, better, and faster capabilities as we move forward,” Muller said.

The FBI is also deploying biometrics in the field to help identify potential criminals more easily. “The true power of advanced biometrics in the national and homeland security arenas is only realized when authorized users, ranging from patrol officers working the streets of America to Department of State officers screening visa applicants abroad, have the ability to quickly gather data on those persons they encounter in real-time search appropriate databases.”

[barbtries]

10. this is making me feel sick inside

really sick.

[L. Coyote]

7. Morning Edition: "An edgy exchange between committee Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) and the director"

Mueller: FBI Needs More Powers To Combat Threats
Dina Temple-Raston
Listen Now = 3 min 57 sec - http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94687783


Morning Edition, September 17, 2008 · FBI Director Robert Mueller defended his agency during a hearing before the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday. Before the hearing began, lawmakers had said they intended to get to the bottom of a number of issues facing the agency. They wanted to grill the director about new investigative powers he was seeking for the FBI, and they wanted details on the investigation into the 2001 anthrax attacks.

Mueller seemed to parry each one of their thrusts.

An edgy exchange between committee Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) and the director set the tone:

"How come we can't get some straight answers on the questions that I write you, that I ask you, that I give you in person?" Conyers asked Mueller after the director read his prepared statement.

Mueller, for his part, said he was trying to be responsive. He said he thought he had a good relationship with the committee. Conyers didn't back down. "Director Mueller, we have a very good relationship," he said. "We just don't get anything. You don't give us anything."

Conyers had a point. Although Mueller spent several hours before the committee, he didn't provide much in the way of revelations. ...........

[EFerrari]

8. I missed the Senate hearing. Thanks for the link!

[barbtries]

9. this can't stand

racial profiling, investigations without evidence of wrongdoing, spying on americans, give me a fucking break. this cannot stand.

[libodem]

11. Once our rights are lost

they will be lost forever...we won't be getting them back. Future generations studying history are not only going to know that Bush was the worst president in the history of the world but that all his subjects were sound asleep at the wheel. We are regressing back to the 1500's. Medieval morons.

[hootinholler]

12. Go after the ATC and clean your own house first...

Then I might believe you.

-Hoot

[truedelphi]

13. Thank you for posting this. FBI has been rigged by DOJ

So that crimes against black Americans are not reported or investigated properly, election fraud committed by Repugs on all levels cannot even be reported.