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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-16-07 08:05 PM
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Judge orders domestic surveillance docs public
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/16/judge-orders-domestic-surveillance-docs-public/

Judge orders domestic surveillance docs public.

“Just one day after a news that an internal audit found that FBI agents abused a Patriot Act power more than 1000 times, a federal judge ordered the agency Friday to begin turning over thousands of pages of documents related to the agency’s use of a powerful, but extremely secretive investigative tool that can pry into telephone and internet records.”
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/06/judge_orders_fb.html

The April request from the Electronic Frontier Foundation asked the FBI to turn over documents related to its misuse of National Security Letters, self-issued subpoenas that don’t need a judge’s approval and which can get financial, phone and internet records. Recipients of the letters are forbidden by law from ever telling anyone other than their lawyer that they received the request. Though initially warned to use this power sparingly, FBI agents issued more than 47,000 in 2005, more than half of which targeted Americans. Information obtained from the requests, which need only be certified by the agency to be “relevant” to an investigation, are dumped into a data-mining warehouse for perpetuity.
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lovuian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-16-07 08:17 PM
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1. The Patriot Act at work voted by Congress
and still at work not catching Terorrists but harassing US Americans

Good for the Judge

They will Fail the new world order will fail
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bonito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-16-07 10:54 PM
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2. .
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FloridaJudy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-16-07 11:50 PM
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3. 47,000 warrantless and secret searches
Do you feel safer now? I sure don't.
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FogerRox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-17-07 09:14 PM
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4. Kickin for Justice... Damn it.
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sicksicksick_N_tired Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-17-07 09:21 PM
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5. The JUNTA will appeal and appeal and appeal and,...
,...NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR ABUSE.

So, who cares?

No one is going to hold this administration accountable for any-god-damned-thing.

The SCOTUS demanded guidelines on Gitmo a couple years ago and that hasn't happened. The Congress has held a shit LOAD of hearings demanding documents and testimony,...that hasn't happened.

Face it. These effin criminals still hold this country by its balls, and they aren't going to pay, EVER,...without taking this country down.

Ick. Hate to be so,...resigned,...but, I don't see any indication that REAL HONOR OR COURAGE exists at 'the top' to hold these fuckers' feet to the very laws they impose.
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