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[privacy] Mueller: FBI Improperly Sought Personal Data
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 19:10:43 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Yet more surveillance abuses... Via MSNBC (AP). [snip] An internal Justice Department report has found more improper use of national security letters by FBI agents seeking personal data on Americans during terror and spy investigations, Director Robert Mueller said Wednesday. Mueller told the Senate Judiciary Committee that the privacy breach by FBI agents and lawyers occurred a year before the bureau enacted sweeping new reforms to prevent future lapses. Details on the abuses will be outlined in the coming days in a report by the Justice Department's inspector general. [snip] More: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23483287/ Also: http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9886448-7.html Additional background: http://www.aclu.org/safefree/nationalsecurityletters/32904prs20071129.html - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFHzvAwq1pz9mNUZTMRAu/fAKCJWXnQUIO6UMfXtC/g6FDJH45+OQCeKGow NpgxV2XwsvpMkyNW5JcGVrg= =Gg65 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy
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