FBI director confirms privacy violations.
By on Mar 5th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
FBI director confirms privacy violations.
In a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing today, FBI Director Robert Mueller confirmed that his agency “improperly used national security letters in 2006 to obtain personal data on Americans during terror and spy investigations.” More details will be outlined in the coming days in a new Justice Department Inspector General report.
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I’m sure AG Mukasey will be jumping right on this one….
March 5th, 2008 at 1:14 pmDamning indeed.
Score one for our side.
March 5th, 2008 at 1:15 pmIn a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing today, FBI Director Robert Mueller confirmed that his agency “improperly used national security letters in 2006 to obtain personal data on Americans during terror and spy investigations.
This is not news…Of COURSE they did.
March 5th, 2008 at 1:17 pmhey dems, I think its time for another strongly worded letter…
March 5th, 2008 at 1:17 pmHaving admitted to violating one law, he then went on to demand that Congress rubberstamp and backdate previous lawbreaking by the Unitary Executive. The Democratic leadership will craft the necessary bills later this evening over a meal of shredded Constitution with a demiglaze of Independence.
March 5th, 2008 at 1:18 pmFox News:
FBI director confirms 2006 spying on terrorists.
March 5th, 2008 at 1:18 pmNow I understand why GDumbya was tap-dancing at the north portico while waiting for McSame today . . . he’s practicing!
March 5th, 2008 at 1:19 pmHow long before the trolls come on to say no one’s rights were violated?
March 5th, 2008 at 1:19 pmNope. No abuses here. Nothing to see folks, move along:
March 5th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
I believe that we already knew this. And it will now, have as much affect as it did the last time we were told this. That would be nothing.
I certainly hope that President Obama investigates each and every one of these violations of our privacy when after he takes office.
No, you may not have my rights. I’m still using them!
March 5th, 2008 at 1:22 pmUh oh, someone is going to receive a stern letter about this.
March 5th, 2008 at 1:22 pmp.s. the FBI are a bunch of clowns. National Men in Blue, nothing more, and more often, a lot less.
March 5th, 2008 at 1:22 pmHey Zooey, just in case you missed my reply on the McSame thread, you should see this to help prove your point. http://blog.wired.com/ 27bstroke6/ 2008/ 03/ did-the-clinton.html
March 5th, 2008 at 1:24 pmSorry Zooey, try this. http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/03/did-the-clinton.html
March 5th, 2008 at 1:25 pmMueller, noting senators’ concerns about Americans’ civil and privacy rights, said the new report “will identify issues similar to those in the report issued last March.” The similarities, he said, are because the time period of the two studies “predates the reforms we now have in place.”
He added: “We are committed to ensuring that we not only get this right, but maintain the vital trust of the American people.”
Sorry Mueller, you lost the trust of the American people a long time ago and are not going to regain it. It will take a new director under a Democratic administration to regain this kind of trust.
March 5th, 2008 at 1:25 pmSounds like a great reason to give the telecoms immunity, doesn’t it?
March 5th, 2008 at 1:29 pmTell me something didn’t know.
March 5th, 2008 at 1:29 pmComment by Mr. Evil — March 5, 2008 @ 1:25 pm
We did a post on that at TheZoo yesterday. :-)
Thanks, Mr Evil!
March 5th, 2008 at 1:31 pmThose National Security Letters are bullshit! I can’t say if I got one.
March 5th, 2008 at 1:32 pmZooey wassup with you? Having fun?
March 5th, 2008 at 1:32 pmHey ForTruth, it’s almost Spring Break — definitely having fun. :)
You?
March 5th, 2008 at 1:35 pm.
This write itself:
Incompetence is as incompetence does.
.
So,
What is the deterrent to such violations?
What is in place to act as consequential response?
Congress…
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…
.
March 5th, 2008 at 1:38 pmLet’s get the tapdancer and his puppetmaster in irons then – right now.
March 5th, 2008 at 1:39 pmAnd were they really spys or terrorists? Or were they Democrats running for office, reporters who just might actually report, Journalists who might actually not spew WH talking points, Protesters?
That is the problem with this sort of activity, they can say one thing and do something just the opposite.
Bush would say, “It’s secret.”
Bush/Cheney
March 5th, 2008 at 1:41 pmHague Trials ‘09
I think it’s safe to say that those of us who have been voicing concerns over the past couple of years about the potential for the federal government to misuse and abuse the powers it has granted itself have now had those concerns at the very least partially vindicated. How much clearer does it really need to be that this administration cannot and should not be trusted?
March 5th, 2008 at 1:49 pmGosh, I am so, so, very surprised that our government would violate privacy laws, abuse power, and ignore the 4th Amendment. I just can’t believe that they would do this!
/sarcasm
Impeach. Now.
March 5th, 2008 at 1:52 pmYou can bet that anyone who posts here is in the NSA database.
Do we need to post the U.S. Constitution here, just to make sure they’ve read it?
March 5th, 2008 at 1:57 pm.
See,
The Patiot Act works…
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
.
March 5th, 2008 at 2:00 pmImproperly or illegally?
March 5th, 2008 at 2:00 pmDNFP; hint, hint
those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable- John F. Kennedy
March 5th, 2008 at 2:01 pmComment by Uncle Ho — March 5, 2008 @ 2:01 pm
Excuse you?
The moniker, if you will, is a jab at the complete oxymoron of the phrase, “without war, there can be no peace.”
It’s usually the most confusing, as was intended, to the Neoturdocons.
March 5th, 2008 at 2:04 pm…as in “once we kill ya, we’ll have some peace!”
March 5th, 2008 at 2:05 pmDNFP; Whoa! Did not intend to offend you. The JFK quote is meant for the NSA spooks listening in. What I meant was that I concur that we are being watched.
March 5th, 2008 at 2:10 pmThis is not news…Of COURSE they did.
Comment by Fritz — March 5, 2008 @ 1:17 pm
You won’t hear Brian and Katy mention it on their evening entertainment/propaganda shows today. So it must not be news.
March 5th, 2008 at 2:13 pmUncle,
Sorry, did not intend to sound offended.
I’m a little “tap happy” (keyboard wise) myself today, after last nights local caucus.
March 5th, 2008 at 2:14 pmFBI finally confirms what the whole f-ing world has known all along.
March 5th, 2008 at 2:14 pmINDICT.
March 5th, 2008 at 2:15 pmIMPEACH.
IMPRISON.
enjoy!
DNFP;
March 5th, 2008 at 2:17 pmDNFP; it don’t mean nothing. :-)
March 5th, 2008 at 2:18 pmCool UH. ;^)
March 5th, 2008 at 2:25 pmKinda makes me miss the good ol’ days, when Republicans used to mock us with sarcastic comments like “I’m from the government … I’m here to help.” Now they expect us to buy that crap.
The difference, of course, is that we liberals believed not only in the use of government for the good of the people, but we respected Constitution’s limits as well.
Bad things happen when you jettison the Bill of Rights, fellas.
March 5th, 2008 at 2:37 pmHow does one find out if they were on the list?
March 5th, 2008 at 3:05 pmHey Zooey,
Yup I’m havin’ more fun than a pig in shit.
March 5th, 2008 at 3:07 pmYup I’m havin’ more fun than a pig in shit.
Comment by ForTruth — March 5, 2008 @ 3:07 pm
That’s a hell of a lot of fun, Truth. :)
I’ll be in touch soon.
March 5th, 2008 at 3:22 pmHow does one find out if they were on the list?
Comment by stateofthedivision — March 5, 2008 @ 3:05 pm
Two indicators – this site will go down and you will hear a knock on your front door on the first Wednesday next November.
March 5th, 2008 at 3:29 pmI’m sure someone will receive a stern letter.
**crickets chirping softly**
March 5th, 2008 at 3:40 pm