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As a result of their fight, the FBI folded, rescinding the NSL and unsealing associated court records rather than risk a ruling that their surveillance orders w
by joering2 10y ago
As a result of their fight, the FBI folded, rescinding the NSL and unsealing associated court records rather than risk a ruling that their surveillance orders were illegal.
This part angers me the most. So basically it was a bluff. Either that or if this was serious than FBI is reckless and incompetent. Because someone decided: "oh crap this is getting some publicity, we didn't want it because we didn't want him to be tipped off, but now since we have to defend ourselves and judge might be on their side, let us just forget about tipping him off." So then if he really make some terrorist related decision based of knowing they after him, who am I supposed to blame as a law abiding citizen who pays his taxes and demands FBI to be serious??
I will await for the day when one judge will say: "well wait a second this might be criminal I want to see what you guys really up to, now its too late you can't withdraw".
- billiam 10y agoI am not saying it is right (it isn't) but this is what the FBI does: they try to intimidate bad people and innocent people alike, skirting the edge of the law or outright violating it.