FBI SPY: In the decade since 9/11, the FBI has become a massive domestic spying agency

[Better Believe It]

FBI SPY
In the decade since 9/11, the FBI has become a massive domestic spying agency
By Kevin Gosztola
Salt Lake City Weekly
July 14, 2011

In 2010, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court approved all 1,506 requests by the FBI to electronically monitor suspects. It was also generous with granting “national security letters,” which allow the FBI to force credit-card companies, financial institutions and Internet service providers to give confidential records about customers’ subscriber information, phone numbers, e-mail addresses and the Websites they’ve visited.

The FBI got permission to spy on 14,000 people in this way.

That’s just the beginning. Now, the FBI is claiming the authority to exercise more surveillance powers, which include undocumented database searches; lie detector tests; trash searches; surveillance squads; investigations of public officials, scholars and journalists; and rules that would provide more freedom for agents and informants to not disclose participation in organizations that are targets of FBI surveillance.

Here are five cases of FBI abuse that show the FBI deserves more scrutiny, not a free pass to continue fighting the so-called “war on terror.”

1. FBI’s Use of Warrantless GPS Tracking

2. FBI Targeting WikiLeaks and Bradley Manning Supporters

3. FBI Spied on Children While Using “Roving Wiretaps,” Intentionally Misled Courts on Freedom of Information Act Requests

4. FBI Entrapment of Muslims

5. The Criminalization of Travel by the FBI

Read the full article at:

http://npaper-wehaa.com/cityweekly#2011/07/14/s3/?article=1325531

[Donnachaidh]

1. k&r n/t.

[EFerrari]

2. Kick

[KeepItReal]

3. Is the iPhone earbud and the old Ray-Ban Wayfarers supposed to be intimidating?

Looks like a bad Halloween costume


p.s.
I do agree the FBI is outta control tho

[Better Believe It]

10. Yes. But, do you think they all look like that? Many dress and look just like us!

[laconicsax]

4. So...it wasn't one before?

:shrug:

[postulater]

5. It's OK if you are FBI but not if you are NewsCorp.

Is that how it is nowdays??

[TreasonousBastard]

6. So what else is new? I remember them spying on us in the '60s...

and besides spying on King and everyone else they were afraid of back then there were all those Communists that J. Edgar was spying on since the '50s. It's what they do.

Meanwhile, somehow the Bloods and Crips are growing exponentially while the FBI chases imaginary terrorists.

[Ignis]

7. K&R

Keep up the good work, BBI. :hi:

[Rex]

8. They want to be the CIA so bad they can taste the torture money.

[ladjf]

9. .... specializing in cover ups. (IMO) nt