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FBI Discloses Its Own Warrantless Spying Info

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Posted on Apr 29, 2006

The Justice Dept. pored through the bank, library or telecom records of 3,501 U.S. citizens and legal residents—without a court’s approval. Apparently this was legal—it’s just the first time the FBI is publicly disclosing hard numbers.


AP:

By MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press Writer
Fri Apr 28, 7:15 PM ET

The FBI secretly sought information last year on 3,501 U.S. citizens and legal residents from their banks and credit card, telephone and Internet companies without a court’s approval, the Justice Department said Friday.

It was the first time the Bush administration has publicly disclosed how often it uses the administrative subpoena known as a National Security Letter, which allows the executive branch of government to obtain records about people in terrorism and espionage investigations without a judge’s approval or a grand jury subpoena.

Friday’s disclosure was mandated as part of the renewal of the Patriot Act, the administration’s sweeping anti-terror law.

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By anthony bauwens, February 19, 2008 at 7:47 am #
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Lets hope they are not gonna try to bug people for their own war they created. We are all fed up with lies seems like we are being run by a dictator!Lets hope the new Top gets a good fair start!!

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By Hilding Lindquist, May 1, 2006 at 7:56 am #
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“Ah so, Mr. Hemingtop, I know your every idiosyncracy. You may not remember the illegal immigrant who waited on your table at Harvard.”

Or something like that.

Gathering information ... how innocuous. Until it leads to a climate of suspicion, the loss of a job or promotion, ... a growing paranoia among people, further isolating ourselves from each other ... (my god! did you know so and so had a sex life?)

We sit in the classroom and face forward, watching and listening to the “authority” telling us what we should know. We sit in our living rooms and face forward, watching and listening to the “authority” telling us what we should know.

We go to our social functions and follow the instructions we have been given while sitting and facing forward.

We have internalized our prison ... and the FBI reports anyone passing notes or talking ... or so we fear.

Anyway, some thoughts.

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By Free Survivors, April 30, 2006 at 2:16 pm #
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Worms in human cadaver disguises dressed by dumbed down social worker prison fugitive escape teams with t-shirts reading “FBI” cannot double for the previously honorable F.B.I., now a long-gone federal agency of citizen protections.  Like the originators of this website, those who survive to avenge the losses of vital human beings created with evolutions best talents and used by goonies for covering their ugly wired skeletons are unimpressed with these partial reports of FBI abuses.

Aren’t there enough readable words from the former purges of stalking identity thieves invading the American governments to present a cogent sketch of how hideously exploited the people have been?

Bloodletting rituals by entrapment maven-wannabes who gorge on embalming fluid while living highly on the works of their slaves are not gathering intelligence for the national defense purposes.

With a few days of freedom from assaulting crews representing the likes of Gacy BTK and its minions of the McVeigh kinds, the exhausted persons might be capable of researching exactly how horrible the situation is for the good as well as the bad among us.

When is a website like this one going beyond the confidentiality game to admit who, what where, when and how these news traces have been obtained?

Stuffing with animal-based meth in rural outposts is common knowledge among the lookers who pretend they can assume the lives of those whom the want to mimic.  Not only is beauty only skin deep in the USA, but the implants are weak transmitters also.

If the pornographic scenes players knew their ugly selves show through their borrowed outer costumes, would they still be so bold? 

Wouldn’t this website have been better if the authors who began the work had been saved for life in this critical era?  They knew the answers to cooperation.  Without those nonviolent brilliant originals, the rescues are extremely awkward to achieve, aren’t they?

And, if the website posting branch had no idea that their sources were forced, then pardon the implications.  Rough drafts thrown in the garbage, like old clothes at Goodwill, tend to be up for grabs.

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