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Old 05-17-2006, 02:37 AM   #41
tw
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Undertoad
Statement by the FBI:
The impression left by the ABC News report is misleading. In specific cases, after receiving a referral from the Department of Justice, the FBI will take logical investigative steps to determine if a criminal act was committed by a government employee by the unauthorized release of classified information. In such cases, investigators may examine the telephone records of government agencies. In any case where the records of a private person are sought, they may only be obtained through established legal process.
And then ABC News responds with this report:
Quote:
FBI Secret Probes: 3,501 Targets in the U.S.
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.
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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.
Let's see. Whistle blowers reporting illegal kidnapping, torture, bugging of citizen's international calls without court order, or simply spyin on UN diplomats to justify an illegal "Peral Harboring" of Iraq .... clearly these whistle blowers must be terrorists.

Same reasoning was used by Nixon to justify the plumbers. Nixon would not lie either.
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