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FBI broke law for years in phone record searches
- jpwagner 17y agowho will watch the watchmen
- ciscoriordan 17y agoJournalists, the ones who still have jobs.
- kingkilr 17y agoI remember being in 8th grade in 2004 and writing an essay arguing that the FISA courts were antithetical to our notions of liberty, even if they didn't actually break the law. Little did I know that FISA warrants were the least of my worries.
- nazgulnarsil 17y agoI'm sure this kind of thing is rare.~
- azm 17y ago5 years, multiple thousands of almost illegal intercepts, 'blanket' PIs to cover up the unauthorized intercepts. Surely redefining 'rare' is not the answer.
- nazgulnarsil 17y agoum, I guess the sarcasm punctuation mark is not common parlance round these parts. though I guess </snark> or something would be more universally understood.
- azm 17y agoWhoops! I guess it is rare...
- mcav 17y agoAs unfortunate as the situation may be, wiretapping/spying/searching will probably always happen at high levels of government regardless of the law. I don't know of any way to stop it, or that it's even possible to see if it would subsequently have been stopped.
- bediger 17y agoRight, but at least let's not do really stupid things like build-in wiretapping capability, or have "law enforcement keys" or something like that. It would probably help to have decently encrypted telephone protocols, instead of merely outlawing listening devices.
- ebrenes 17y agoI must confess I was incredibly amused every time they used "technically violated", "technical violation" or other euphemisms for breaking the law. They either followed the law or they broke it and should face the appropriate punishment (if any). It just strikes me like the author is trying to minimize the impact by appealing to the use of technicality as "only appealing to a specialist" or in this case some "legalist". It's a disservice to the protection of civil liberties by minimizing the importance of crimes committed against said liberties.
- nfnaaron 17y agoYeah, but they're the FBI so their intentions were good. </sarc>