Mood:  irritated

(Quote By Ted Bridis, Associated Press Writer )  June 22, 2006WASHINGTON --Despite the use of private data brokers by federal and local law enforcement agencies, the FBI said Thursday that practices by such companies to gather Americans' private telephone records without warrants or subpoenas are almost certainly illegal. A senior FBI lawyer, Elaine N. Lammert, told lawmakers the bureau was still surveying agents around the U.S. but so far has found no "systemic" use of data brokers by the FBI seeking telephone records or other information without warrants or subpoenas. Lammert, the bureau's deputy general counsel for its investigative law branch, told a congressional panel: "There are compelling reasons for the government to believe that these operations violate federal law." (end quote)
Read the full story here on Boston.com

Now this type of obvious mining or searching over records by law enforcement that we traditionally have been used to seeing enacted, has been abided by for the most part within the boundaries of the constitution and the law and its intention. As mentioned in this article in the above quote, the concept that if illegal means was acquired to make a bust, the fact that it was illegally obtained thwarted the arrest and the case for prosecution was jeopardized. What we are seeing now, is a blatant and new bold/sneaky rise in this current administration of abuse and disrespect for this Country’s Law and for the rules. These rules are there for these very reasons that we put them there for. Yet these current day Police State Thugs are stomping on all of our constitutional rights and then claiming they Have The Right To Do So.

This activity of breaking or going above the law under the guise that “we are stopping terrorism” needs to stop. Nobody is above the Law.

What are they smoking?

Posted by Joe Anybody at 12:05 PM PDT

Updated: Saturday, 24 June 2006 12:41 PM PDT

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