Saturday, May 23, 2015

FBI admits that no major acts of terrorism have been prevented by the Patriot Act.

Courtesy of The Washington Times:  

FBI agents can’t point to any major terrorism cases they’ve cracked thanks to the key snooping powers in the Patriot Act, the Justice Department’s inspector general said in a report Thursday that could complicate efforts to keep key parts of the law operating. 

Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz said that between 2004 and 2009, the FBI tripled its use of bulk collection under Section 215 of the Patriot Act, which allows government agents to compel businesses to turn over records and documents, and increasingly scooped up records of Americans who had no ties to official terrorism investigations. 

The FBI did finally come up with procedures to try to minimize the information it was gathering on nontargets, but it took far too long, Mr. Horowitz said in the 77-page report, which comes just as Congress is trying to decide whether to extend, rewrite or entirely nix Section 215. 

Backers say the Patriot Act powers are critical and must be kept intact, particularly with the spread of the threat from terrorists. But opponents have doubted the efficacy of Section 215, particularly when it’s used to justify bulk data collection such as in the case of the National Security Agency’s phone metadata program, revealed in leaks from former government contractor Edward Snowden. 

Clearly it is time to do away with the program completely or  modify it in such as way that every single American citizen is not treated as a potential terrorist.

But it is equally clear that most likely neither of those two things will ever happen.

4 comments:

  1. Anonymous2:15 AM

    O/T Gryphen!

    Looks like the Palin's are in Kentucky. Here is Trig dancing and Dakota laughing at him. It looks like the place is all set up for a wedding! WTH is going on??

    https://instagram.com/p/3Ac7xhggcQ/?taken-by=wbf_

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  2. Anonymous2:18 AM

    How did Trig learn to Twerk??!!!

    https://instagram.com/p/3Ac7xhggcQ/?taken-by=wbf_

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  3. The Patriot Act was never designed to find terrorists, it was designed to make money.

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  4. Anonymous4:25 PM

    Well the money machine will continue until it breaks and no one can figure out how to fix it

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