FBI broke law for years in phone record searches

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jimmy olsen

January 19, 2010, 02:05:29 AM
Bastards <_<

4 page article can be found here
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/18/AR2010011803982.html
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FBI broke law for years in phone record searches
   
By John Solomon and Carrie Johnson
Special to The Washington Post
Tuesday, January 19, 2010

The FBI illegally collected more than 2,000 U.S. telephone call records between 2002 and 2006 by invoking terrorism emergencies that did not exist or simply persuading phone companies to provide records, according to internal bureau memos and interviews. FBI officials issued approvals after the fact to justify their actions.

E-mails obtained by The Washington Post detail how counterterrorism officials inside FBI headquarters did not follow their own procedures that were put in place to protect civil liberties. The stream of urgent requests for phone records also overwhelmed the FBI communications analysis unit with work that ultimately was not connected to imminent threats.
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Barrister

#1
January 19, 2010, 02:38:14 AM
I never took Timmy to be a communist. :(
Posts here are my own private opinions.  I do not speak for my employer.

jimmy olsen

#2
January 19, 2010, 03:06:15 AM
Quote from: Barrister on January 19, 2010, 02:38:14 AM
I never took Timmy to be a communist. :(

Being against illegally tapping phone lines is indicative of communist?
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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Martinus

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January 19, 2010, 03:06:59 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on January 19, 2010, 03:06:15 AM
Quote from: Barrister on January 19, 2010, 02:38:14 AM
I never took Timmy to be a communist. :(

Being against illegally tapping phone lines is indicative of communism?

Of course. Wasn't that the cause always championed by Stalin, Mao and Castro?

jimmy olsen

#4
January 19, 2010, 03:23:20 AM
Quote from: Martinus on January 19, 2010, 03:06:59 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on January 19, 2010, 03:06:15 AM
Quote from: Barrister on January 19, 2010, 02:38:14 AM
I never took Timmy to be a communist. :(

Being against illegally tapping phone lines is indicative of communism?

Of course. Wasn't that the cause always championed by Stalin, Mao and Castro?
Nope, I'm pretty sure they tapped phones by the million.
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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Admiral Yi

#5
January 19, 2010, 04:30:30 AM
A call record is not a tapped phone Timmy.

jimmy olsen

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January 19, 2010, 04:48:30 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on January 19, 2010, 04:30:30 AM
A call record is not a tapped phone Timmy.
You are correct, I guess I wasn't really paying attention when I read the article. However, it's still an illegal infringement of privacy.
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
--------------------------------------------
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HisMajestyBOB

#7
January 19, 2010, 04:59:04 AM
Government agencies abusing their powers and acting illegally?
Say it ain't so!
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Martinus

#8
January 19, 2010, 05:02:46 AM
Is Timmy actually serious throughout this thread? I can't say.  :huh:

CountDeMoney

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January 19, 2010, 06:10:47 AM
Quote from: Martinus on January 19, 2010, 05:02:46 AM
Is Timmy actually serious throughout this thread? I can't say.  :huh:

If they were gay phone numbers, you'd been all over it, so can it.

Razgovory

#10
January 19, 2010, 08:03:26 AM
I thought this was well known by now.
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The Minsky Moment

#11
January 19, 2010, 10:04:20 AM
I am actually a little surprised the number wasn't much higher.
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grumbler

#12
January 19, 2010, 09:00:47 PM
Quote from: The Minsky Moment on January 19, 2010, 10:04:20 AM
I am actually a little surprised the number wasn't much higher.
No shit!  2,000 in five years is nothing.  In fact, given the low numbers, I would go back to Napoleon's maxim:  "never attribute to malice that which can adequately be explained by stupidity."
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Razgovory

#13
January 19, 2010, 09:03:43 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on January 19, 2010, 06:10:47 AM
Quote from: Martinus on January 19, 2010, 05:02:46 AM
Is Timmy actually serious throughout this thread? I can't say.  :huh:

If they were gay phone numbers, you'd been all over it, so can it.

Which numbers are gay?
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Capetan Mihali

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January 19, 2010, 09:03:59 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on January 19, 2010, 04:48:30 AM
I wasn't really paying attention when I read the article.

:hmm:  You don't say...
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