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As if you didn't need more proof. The FBI caused a delay in getting information to say it needs more power. More power meaning no warrants and the like... you know, 1984.
Here we have direct evidence that our subpoena system works and the information was obtained, yet the FBI thought that wasn't good enough. This is supposed to be America. Citizens are supposed to have rights, you know, like that piece of paper called the Constitution?
As if you didn't need more proof. The FBI caused a delay in getting information to say it needs more power. More power meaning no warrants and the like... you know, 1984.
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Counterterrorism officials in FBI headquarters slowed an investigation into a possible conspirator in the 2005 London bombings by forcing a field agent to return documents acquired from a U.S. university. Why? Because the agent received the documents through a lawful subpoena, while headquarters wanted him to demand the records under the USA Patriot Act, using a power the FBI did not have, but desperately wanted.
When a North Carolina State University lawyer correctly rejected the second records demand, the FBI obtained another subpoena. Two weeks later, the delay was cited by FBI director Robert Mueller in congressional testimony as proof that the USA Patriot Act needed to be expanded.
The strange episode is recounted in newly declassified documents obtained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation under the Freedom of Information Act. The documents shed new light on how senior FBI officials' determination to gain independence from judicial oversight slowed its own investigation, and led the bureau's director to offer inaccurate testimony to Congress. The revelations are likely to play a key role in Capitol Hill hearings Tuesday and Wednesday on the FBI's use of so-called national security letters, or NSLs
Here we have direct evidence that our subpoena system works and the information was obtained, yet the FBI thought that wasn't good enough. This is supposed to be America. Citizens are supposed to have rights, you know, like that piece of paper called the Constitution?