Just received a breaking news alert from the Washington Post regarding this: The FBI illegally collected more than 2,000 U.S. telephone call records between 2002 and 2006 by invoking terrorism emergencies that did not exist or simply persuading phone companies to provide records, according to internal bureau memos and interviews. FBI officials issued approvals after […]
Because he doesn’t get what he wants: President Bush said Friday that Congress must stay in session until it approves legislation modernizing a U.S. law governing eavesdropping on foreigners. “So far the Democrats in Congress have not drafted a bill I can sign,” Bush said at FBI headquarters, where he was meeting with counterterror and […]
One of the arguments that we keep hearing about the warrantless wiretaps is that it could of helped prevented 9/11 if the “tool” was available prior to the attacks. That is another point that is totally false. The FBI actually wanted to tap Moussaoui prior to the attacks but didn’t do so because their lawyers […]