So it’s Friday and here is my little rant of the week. I was just watching the news concerning the FBI’s right to obtain certain information as it relates to the Patriot Act. The news media well at least CNN has done another horrible job at telling the facts. Well, at least the morning news anchors have not done reporting in this matter. CNN said they were not breaking the law. That is just a bunch of bull. The FBI repeatedly failed to follow the guidelines of the Patriot Act. For instance, they were suppose to hand over warrants to phone companies which would then hand over the records to the FBI. The FBI, according to CNN, told the phone companies that they would hand over the warrants at another time, which they never did. The official report done by the Attorney General stated “The reported possible violations involved the issuance of NSLs without proper authorization, improper requests under the statutes cited in the NSLs, and unauthorized collection of telephone or Internet e-mail transactional records.”
Simply speaking the FBI broke the law, they just didn’t break the rules which in my opinion is being way too lenient on the FBI. Top officials within the FBI must be held accountable. I am sure Bush was behind this of course. He holds prisoners without charges and evidence for years on end…and when the law does not fit his plans, he breaks it like he did today. I hold Bush accountable just as much as I hold the FBI accountable.
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