FBI Admits Spying on Us--and Maybe on You
"The nation's top two law enforcement officials acknowledged Friday the FBI broke the law to secretly pry out personal information about Americans." This is from a 9 March 2007 article written by Lara Jakes Jordan of the Associated Press. Jordan also writes, "Attorney General Alberto Gonzales left open the possibility of pursuing criminal charges against FBI agents or lawyers who improperly used the USA Patriot Act in pursuit of suspected terrorists and spies."
There's also an article published the same day by James Vicini of Reuters. "The FBI abused its power by illegally or improperly obtaining telephone, financial and other secret records in investigations of terrorism or espionage suspects, the U.S. Justice Department's inspector general said on Friday."
We have something of a personal interest in this, as some of our friends and members were among those spied on. We warned that this type of thing had begun way back in various writings including the 1 December 2001 article Stripping Away American Freedom: A Call to Action which you can read at http://discordia.loveshade.org/xtra/freedomstrip.html
The Vicini article is at http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070309/pl_nm/fbi_patriotact_errors_dc and the Jordan article is at http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070309/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/national_security_letters
Don't let your representatives simply sweep this under the rug, or blame it all on a few agents or assistants who were following orders from someone higher up.
Personally, we suggest you consider supporting groups who fight for freedom such as the ACLU at http://www.aclu.org or http://www.aclu.org/safefree/resources/17119pub20020920.html The fight for freedom is, as always, right now.