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: Dispatches from the Culture WarsFBI Ignores FISA Court
By Ed Brayton
Seems that not only does the Bush administration think they shouldn't have to get warrants from the FISA court, they also think they can just ignore the court when it does rule on a warrant.
The FBI twice disregarded a secret court's constitutional objections and obtained private records for national-security probes, a U.S. inspector reported on Thursday.Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post...The Justice Department's Inspector General made the disclosure in reviews of the FBI's powers to obtain information such as phone records or credit-card data in terrorism probes or other security investigations.
"We questioned the appropriateness of the FBI's actions" in disregarding the court, the Inspector General's office said.
Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on March 20, 2008 (boomark / email).
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