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SHEPHERD Reveals TRUTH About Wacky Misconduct Of FEDS

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UPDATED: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 08:36
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From Chuck Shepherd's News Of The Weird :


'...In January, the Justice Department's Inspector General released a long-anticipated report detailing the FBI's post-9/11 corner-cutting in obtaining individual Americans' phone records. Federal law permits such acquisition only with a "terrorism" subpoena ("National Security Letter") unless the FBI documents emergency ("exigent") circumstances to a telecom company. The Inspector General found that, from 2002-2006, the FBI had representatives of three telecom companies set up in the FBI unit so that agents could request phone records orally, without documentation, and in some cases merely by writing the requested phone numbers on Post-it Notes and sticking them on the telecom employees' workstations. Some of the acquired records were uploaded to the FBI's database. [New York Times, 1-21-10] '

http://www.newsoftheweird.com/archive/index.html

Excerpt from NYT Article disclosing info about the bad actors :

F.B.I. Violated Rules in Obtaining Phone Records, Report Says

By CHARLIE SAVAGE
Published: January 20, 2010


'WASHINGTON — The Federal Bureau of Investigation improperly obtained calling records for more than 3,500 telephone accounts from 2003 to 2006 without following any legal procedures, according to a newly disclosed report by the Justice Department’s inspector general.

Instead, according to the 289-page report, F.B.I. agents informally requested the records from employees of three unidentified telephone companies who were stationed inside a bureau communications office.

Based on nothing more than e-mail messages or scribbled requests on Post-it notes, the phone employees turned over customer calling records, the report said.

On some occasions, the phone employees allowed the F.B.I. to upload call records to government databases. On others, they allowed agents to view records on their computer screens, a practice that became known as “sneak peeks.”

Moreover, the report found that the F.B.I. improperly uploaded into its databases large numbers of calling records without determining whether they were relevant to an investigation. '


http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/21/us/21fbi.html

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