no big whoop

we knew this before. well some of us knew it and know it. i think those teabag heads conveniently forgot it. they're the 'patriots' while the rest of us are scum. how come it's ok for the constitution to be spit upon and laws to be broken BEFORE? how come they're not demanding JUSTICE for those actions? that's not democracy. that smacks of big brother

FBI broke law for years in phone record searches

By John Solomon and Carrie Johnson

Special to The Washington Post

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 the fact to justify their actions.

E-mails obtained by The Washington Post detail how counterterrorism officials inside FBI headquarters did not follow their own procedures that were put in place to protect civil liberties. The stream of urgent requests for phone records also overwhelmed the FBI communications analysis unit with work that ultimately was not connected to imminent threats.

A Justice Department inspector general's report due out this month is expected to conclude that the FBI frequently violated the law with its emergency requests, bureau officials confirmed......................

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