{"id":118,"date":"2005-11-16T02:27:15","date_gmt":"2005-11-16T08:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=118"},"modified":"2005-11-14T17:27:32","modified_gmt":"2005-11-14T23:27:32","slug":"checking-fbi-spying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/checking-fbi-spying\/","title":{"rendered":"Checking FBI Spying"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the FBI, not the CIA. But now that those <\/p>\n

troublesome walls between departments have been removed for efficiency, are their also secret FBI prisons? mjh<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Checking FBI Spying<\/a><\/p>\n

IN THE PAST FEW weeks there have been <\/p>\n

two significant disclosures concerning the rules that govern domestic spying, just as the House and the Senate are preparing to reconcile <\/p>\n

versions of a bill to reauthorize key provisions of the USA Patriot Act. <\/p>\n

The first was a release by the FBI of internal reports <\/p>\n

documenting violations of the rules of domestic surveillance in national security cases. <\/p>\n

The second was a story by Post staff <\/p>\n

writer Barton Gellman revealing that the number of “national security letters” — a kind of administrative subpoena used by the FBI to <\/p>\n

obtain normally private records — has exploded since the passage of the Patriot Act and now reaches 30,000 per year. <\/p>\n

These <\/p>\n

reports open a timely window onto the question that animates the debate over the Patriot Act: How responsibly is the government <\/p>\n

using its spying powers?<\/strong> Though they don’t provide a complete answer, the new disclosures are troubling<\/strong>. …<\/p>\n

… at least 13 cases between 2002 and 2004 of violations serious enough that the FBI itself determined they must be reported to <\/p>\n

an executive branch agency called the Intelligence Oversight Board. Moreover, the case numbers on the released documents suggest that <\/p>\n

there were hundreds of potential violations examined by the bureau during that period. This is cause for concern.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rising Support Cited for <\/p>\n

Limits On Patriot Act<\/a> By Dan Eggen, Washington Post Staff Writer<\/p>\n

Congress edged closer yesterday to limiting some of the <\/p>\n

sweeping surveillance and search powers it granted to the federal government under the USA Patriot Act in 2001, including a provision <\/p>\n

that would allow judicial oversight of a central tool of the FBI’s counterterrorism efforts, according to Senate and House aides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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