The sequel thread. NY Times via Greenwald on your ever-expanding FBI net:
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/06/13/headline/index.html
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is giving significant new powers to its roughly 14,000 agents, allowing them more leeway to search databases, go through household trash or use surveillance teams to scrutinize the lives of people who have attracted their attention....
The F.B.I. recently briefed several privacy advocates about the coming changes. Among them, Michael German, a former F.B.I. agent who is now a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union, argued that it was unwise to further ease restrictions on agents’ power to use potentially intrusive techniques, especially if they lacked a firm reason to suspect someone of wrongdoing.
Under current rules, agents must open such an inquiry before they can search for information about a person in a commercial or law enforcement database. Under the new rules, agents will be allowed to search such databases without making a record about their decision.
― already president FYI (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 June 2011 00:34 (fourteen years ago)
Today's Charlie Savage story:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/13/us/13fbi.html?_r=1&ref=politics
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 14 June 2011 00:36 (fourteen years ago)
Under the new rules, agents will be allowed to search such databases without making a record about their decision.
lol good luck USA
― brad whitford, witchfynder general (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 14 June 2011 02:59 (fourteen years ago)
http://lulzsecurity.com/releases/fuck_fbi_friday_PRETENTIOUS%20PRESS%20STATEMENT.txt
― all the pretty HOOSes (gbx), Tuesday, 14 June 2011 03:04 (fourteen years ago)