Following the report earlier this week that the FBI regularly broke the ECPA law, in obtaining information from telcos without going through the proper process (and, in some cases using just a post it note!), some interesting details from the full report have come to light. The two key ones? First, “the Obama administration issued a secret rule almost two weeks ago saying it was legal for the FBI to have skirted federal privacy protections.” And, second, the original idea to use these bogus “exigent letters” didn’t come from the FBI, but from an AT&T employee. We noted in the original report that no one seemed to be placing any blame on the telcos for allowing this, and why they’re clearly abusing the law, in giving out such info without the proper rules being followed, seems like a big question:
The telecom employees were supposed to be responding to National Security Letters, which are essentially FBI-issued subpoenas. But those Patriot Act powers say the target must be part of an open investigation and that a supervisor has to approve it. While they require some paperwork, FBI agents have been issuing about 40,000 such NSLs a year.
[via No Agenda News]
And who’s the moron that didn’t know he was going to do this after Obama’s push on FISA during Dumbya’s time.
This is called sheeple’s change.
#11 It didn’t take long for the asleep sheeple to rationalize the thing. What proof do you want sheeple? Everytime you get proof you then burp out that it is fabricated or false.
Live your alternative reality, but don’t expect us to be big morons like you.
#17 We’re still waiting for you to wake up. Life’s full of disappointments.
#19 Now comes sheeple #2 to apologize. Let’s see when the other two sheeple appear.
Wow, we are so screwed.
Next up,
Obama issues ruling allowing indentured servitude to resolve bad credit.
Go ahead and laugh, it might not be issued by Obama but will probably come from a Democrat because the left has the loudest complainers and when we loose rights from a democrat that makes it okay for them.
Yup, if this is true it’s a bitter disappointment for us liberals who supported Obama. But what are you wingnuts complaining about? You loved this sh*t when Dubya was doing it. When us liberals complained about Dubya violating our civil rights, you called us terrorist lovers and asked why we hate America. Now, when Obama does the same thing, you’re all offended. WTF?
So why was were you OK with Dubya violating our civil rights but not OK with Obama doing the same thing?
Silly wingnuts.
#23 Like always, in order to be able to sleep at night you say everyone here yelled hooray when Dumbya passed FISA.
We slammed Dumbya and we started to slam Obama then for its support. And you sheeple were dismissing Obama’s support to the thing.
All poor sheeple have short span memory issues.
#24 We slammed Dumbya and we started to slam Obama then for its support. And you sheeple were dismissing Obama’s support to the thing.
If there were any “conservatives” criticizing Dubya’s actions they were few and far between. You want to claim you were one of that tiny minority, fine… just don’t expect us to believe you. Y’all are embarrassed about your support of Dubya, it’s obvious. That’s good, shows some measure of critical thinking. There may be hope for you yet.
There is the huge bloated federal bureaucracy and then there’s the buffoons the idiot masses believe and vote into office. No one elected official can effectively control it, they can only hang on and siphon some of the tax dollars off to their friends. Look at the before and after pictures of all the presidents – very telling of the toll the ride takes from them. Like a hemorrhoid, the only solution to the out-of-control government is to lance and shrink it by throttling the money it needs to bloat itself. Allowing the govt to access and control more money is the wrong thing to do.