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"Captain Compassion" |
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16 May 2006 06:55:10 PM |
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FBI Secret Probes: 3,501 Targets in the U.S. |
FBI Secret Probes: 3,501 Targets in the U.S.
May 16, 2006 5:27 PM
Brian Ross and Maddy Sauer Report:
The Department of Justice says it secretly sought phone records and
other documents of 3,501 people last year under a provision of the
Patriot Act that does not require judicial oversight.
The records were obtained with the use of what are known as National
Security Letters, which can be signed by an FBI agent and are only for
use in terrorism cases.
The letters require telephone companies to keep secret even the
existence of the request for records.
Assistant Attorney General William Moschella told Congress last month
that 9,254 National Security Letters were issued in 2005 involving
3,501 people.
Federal law enforcement sources say the National Security Letters are
being used to obtain phone records of reporters at ABC News and
elsewhere in an attempt to learn confidential sources who may have
provided classified information in violation of the law.
The FBI says its request for reporters' phone records are made in
compliance with the law.
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whip order into a yelping pack of probabilities, and uniform success is
impossible." -- Jack Vance
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Joseph R. Darancette
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| User: "F. H." |
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| Title: Re: FBI Secret Probes: 3,501 Targets in the U.S. |
16 May 2006 07:42:36 PM |
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Captain Compassion wrote:
Federal law enforcement sources say the National Security Letters are
being used to obtain phone records of reporters at ABC News and
elsewhere in an attempt to learn confidential sources who may have
provided classified information in violation of the law.
The FBI says its request for reporters' phone records are made in
compliance with the law.
Been away so long I hardly knew the place
Gee, it's good to be back home
Leave it till tomorrow to unpack my case
Honey disconnect the phone
I'm back in the USSR
You don't know how lucky you are, boy
Back in the US
Back in the US
Back in the USSR
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| User: "SheBlewHimDidYouBlowHim" |
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| Title: Re: FBI Secret Probes: 3,501 Targets in the U.S. |
16 May 2006 07:41:51 PM |
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if they have my phone records, they will be getting a personal introduction
to my shotgun.
save america, get rid of the united states government
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