[privacy] Report Says FBI Violated Patriot Act Guidelines

[Brian Loe]

On 3/8/07, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu <Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu> wrote:
> On Fri, 09 Mar 2007 01:48:31 GMT, Fergie said:
> > The FBI repeatedly failed to follow the strict guidelines of the Patriot
> > Act when its agents took advantage of a new provision allowing the FBI to
> > obtain phone and financial records without a court order, according to a
> > report to be made public Friday by the Justice Department's Inspector
> > General.
>
> Wow. Who could have seen *that* coming?
>

Yes, give a government tools and they will use them - often abuse
them. What you seem to miss about our country, however, is that we
find out about it. Who wrote the report? The government?! That says
something.

For most other countries, they only way you would ever hear about such
abuse is a History Channel special, 50 years after the fact. Unless of
course they go to war and get stomped, but then the US-haters would
just ignore those gross instances of cruelty and talk about
sovereignty, blah, blah...