Audit finds agency misused Patriot Act to obtain information on citizens
"Justice Department: FBI acted illegally on data -"
"Audit finds agency misused Patriot Act to obtain information on citizens."
Associated Press 03/09/2007
This report obviously conflicts with what BushCo has said all along. It seems AAG Viet Dihn was wrong.... go figure.
See the link and a few tidbits below.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/...
"WASHINGTON - The FBI improperly and, in some cases, illegally used the USA Patriot Act to secretly obtain personal information about people in the United States, underreporting for three years how often it forced businesses to turn over customer data, a Justice Department audit concluded Friday."
"FBI agents sometimes demanded the data without proper authorization, according to a 126-page audit by Justice Department Inspector General Glenn A. Fine. At other times, the audit found, the FBI improperly obtained telephone records in non-emergency circumstances."
"The audit blames agent error and shoddy record-keeping for the bulk of the problems and did not find any indication of criminal misconduct."
Anybody buying that one...?
"Still, "we believe the improper or illegal uses we found involve serious misuses of national security letter authorities," the audit concludes."
Sen. Charles Schumer, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee that oversees the FBI, called the reported findings "a profoundly disturbing breach of public trust."
So Senator what are you willing to do about this?