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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Kosh on August 23, 2008, 10:39:44 am
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Warrantless investigations (http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/08/08/22/2054229.shtml)
Attorney General Michael Mukasey has agreed to allow Congressional hearings, but not to delay, the implementation of new FBI regulations that would allow them to spy on American citizens who are not suspected of any crime. As an editorial in the New York Times points out, this is a power that has a history of abuse. In times past, it was used to wiretap Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and to spy on other civil rights and anti-war protesters
Are we in a time warp or something?
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this plays right into what i was saying the other day about that fifth amendment. it was been ignored before and will continue to by fbi, cia, armed forces and police.
it also plays to what i was saying about an american xenophobic government.
i think someone should keep a very tight leech on people who can be given too much power, you know the saying "power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely".
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doesnt this just meen that now they can use the stuff that theyve gleaned and recorded illegaly for the last few years in court as evidence?
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doesnt this just meen that now they can use the stuff that theyve gleaned and recorded illegaly for the last few years in court as evidence?
No. Well... not unless they falsify the dates; which I wouldn't put past the FBI.
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spy on American citizens who are not suspected of any crime
What's the point if they're not suspected of any crime?
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spy on American citizens who are not suspected of any crime
What's the point if they're not suspected of any crime?
boredom
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spy on American citizens who are not suspected of any crime
What's the point if they're not suspected of any crime?
Well it could be used as a tool to intimidate political activists or political enemies.
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spy on American citizens who are not suspected of any crime
What's the point if they're not suspected of any crime?
Well it could be used as a tool to intimidate political activists or political enemies.
Or 12-year-old girls that download a single audio file.