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.
Comments
Why is the FBI director wearing a halo? lol
Seriously this is awful. I know they've been spying on Americans without warrants so finally they're admitting it! Maybe now they'll stop it. And even if they did follow the Patriot Act that act is anti-American anyway. Why do they think that violating American's rights is good for America?
Posted by: Lorien Loveshade | March 10, 2007 06:29 PM
You mean a federal agency was doing something illegal? What a shock!
Really, isn't that standard procedure? You don't really think the government's there to help you, do you?
Posted by: Rev. Bootie | March 11, 2007 04:15 AM
The government thinks they can do anything! We have a chance to stop this illegal stuff now!
Posted by: Binky The WonderSkull | March 14, 2007 06:44 PM
If our government won't spy on us, who will?
Posted by: Alan Greer | March 18, 2007 06:16 AM
So who's the enemy here? Terrorists or our own government?
Posted by: Mad Marge | March 28, 2007 02:46 AM
You still have the right to nag. Isn't a fantastic country you're living in?
The FBI surely isn't spying on me, so excuse my gloating. Haa Haa!
Posted by: Locumtenency Boy | April 3, 2007 07:14 PM
L Boy sure you can be sure the FBI ain't spyin on you. If they were they would have sent you a telegram to let you know first!
Posted by: Rev. Bootie | April 7, 2007 04:35 AM
In fact, they did. But i could not read it, my dog bit the mailman.
Posted by: Locumtenency Boy | April 7, 2007 10:39 AM
The FBI wouldn't spy on you if they didn't have damn good reason to! Looking at your website I can see why!
Posted by: American Al | April 11, 2007 06:05 PM