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.
I never took Timmy to be a communist. :(
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?
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?
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.
A call record is not a tapped phone Timmy.
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.
Government agencies abusing their powers and acting illegally?
Say it ain't so!
Is Timmy actually serious throughout this thread? I can't say. :huh:
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.
I thought this was well known by now.
I am actually a little surprised the number wasn't much higher.
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."
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?
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...
Privacy is immoral anyways.