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ACLU calls for crackdown on FBI use of intel community to spy on Americans
https://www.washingtontimes.com ^ | January 11, 2023 | Ryan Lovelace

Posted on 01/11/2023 8:18:27 PM PST by Enterprise

The American Civil Liberties Union is calling for an overhaul of FBI rules after The Washington Times reported that agents used the CIA and National Security Agency to spy on Americans.

The ACLU urged the bureau to impose new limits on agents’ power to investigate Americans without warrants.

The FBI’s rule book, rewritten in 2021, revealed details about how the FBI tasks the CIA and NSA for help on matters including assessments, which are investigations that can involve surveillance without a court order against people not accused of a crime.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: aclu; civilliberties; civilrights; fbi; privacy; spooks; spying; surveillance
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1 posted on 01/11/2023 8:18:28 PM PST by Enterprise
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To: Enterprise

Must be a misprint. ACLU living up to its name? Ridiculous. Phony outrage, at best. Let’s see some assigned lawyers, or STFU.


2 posted on 01/11/2023 8:21:21 PM PST by Golden Eagle (The LGBT indoctrination agenda is designed to outlaw the Bible, and anyone who follows it.)
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Wow, only took the ACLU 14 years to figure this out. Not bad.


3 posted on 01/11/2023 8:25:01 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Enterprise

Would this be the same aclu that celebrated the unlawful weaponization of government being used to target conservative groactually?

That aclu?


4 posted on 01/11/2023 8:25:05 PM PST by patriot torch
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To: Enterprise

Does this include Trump, or did they make an exception for him?


5 posted on 01/11/2023 8:25:08 PM PST by for-q-clinton (Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
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To: Golden Eagle

How is the ACLU not all about preserving the 2nd Amendment?


6 posted on 01/11/2023 8:29:02 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Enterprise

The ACLU has a tremendous capacity to do good. Unfortunately, they have become way too political - they will only take on causes when a liberal’s civil rights have been violated.

Could this story indicate a change of direction? I doubt it.


7 posted on 01/11/2023 8:29:21 PM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: Paladin2

I have no idea what you are talking about. When I searched for ACLU and 2nd Amendment, this is what came up:

ACLU Thinks the Second Amendment Is a Threat to the First Amendment

https://reason.com/2021/09/23/aclu-says-second-amendment-threat-to-first-amendment/


8 posted on 01/11/2023 8:32:45 PM PST by Golden Eagle (The LGBT indoctrination agenda is designed to outlaw the Bible, and anyone who follows it.)
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To: Enterprise

The ACLU was just fine with this in ‘16 when it meant undermining Trump, and again in ‘20 when it meant inflicting Pedo Joe on an unsuspecting public. Anyone who imagines that they’ve seen the light and are now coming down on the side of freedom is smoking crack.


9 posted on 01/11/2023 8:32:48 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Paladin2

Even better:

ACLU says Second Amendment is racist

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2021/07/aclu-says-second-amendment-is-racist/

Congratulations on your principle stand in the defense of the ACLU.


10 posted on 01/11/2023 8:35:16 PM PST by Golden Eagle (The LGBT indoctrination agenda is designed to outlaw the Bible, and anyone who follows it.)
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To: null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; bitt; ...

well, for once my

“Surprise, surprise”

isn’t meant sarcastically!


11 posted on 01/11/2023 8:40:02 PM PST by bitt (<img src=' 'width=50%>)
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To: Enterprise

The J. Edgar Hoover building in DC needs to be knocked down in a sacred ceremony and all the middle and upper management must be canned and the HQ moved to Texas somewhere greatly limited in size. Quantico is too corrupted by its proximity to CIA and DC so move it to Texas as well. Also field offices must have control of cases in their geographic areas. Decentralization helps prevent abuse of power. Lastly return to the policy of no homosexuals, in or out of the closet - they are a risk of being compromised.


12 posted on 01/11/2023 8:41:02 PM PST by TrumpetteNJ
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To: Enterprise

Babylon Bee?


13 posted on 01/11/2023 8:47:17 PM PST by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: TrumpetteNJ

Anyone in the deep state who authorized spying on Americans in violation of 4A must be put on public trial and dealt the appropriate punishment if found guilty. They’re all traitors imo.

Remember when the leftists acted all outraged that G W MORON spied on foreign terrorists? Now... not a peep out of the journo-listers over illegal domestic spying by the deep state against political opponents.


14 posted on 01/11/2023 8:47:54 PM PST by imabadboy99
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To: TrumpetteNJ
The J. Edgar Hoover building in DC needs to be knocked down in a sacred ceremony and all the middle and upper management must be canned and the HQ moved to Texas somewhere greatly limited in size. Quantico is too corrupted by its proximity to CIA and DC so move it to Texas as well.

Don't corrupt Texas any more than it already is being corrupted. Move the FBI and CIA headquarters to Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, or Louisiana. Nowhere else.

15 posted on 01/11/2023 8:52:02 PM PST by Golden Eagle (The LGBT indoctrination agenda is designed to outlaw the Bible, and anyone who follows it.)
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To: Golden Eagle

The ACLU began as a communist front organization. They claim to have reformed themselves after WW II. Maybe they did, but I have my doubts. Anyway, if they finally caught on to the FedGov, I say about damn time.


16 posted on 01/11/2023 8:52:26 PM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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To: Golden Eagle

You got it bro. 👍


17 posted on 01/11/2023 8:54:15 PM PST by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: Golden Eagle

I’ve long known that the ACLU is not.

They just need to be called out daily.


18 posted on 01/11/2023 8:54:44 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: TrumpetteNJ
all the middle and upper management must be canned

Canned? Yes, indeed!

Accept only Fibby brand Soylent Green. Now in cans.

19 posted on 01/11/2023 8:55:58 PM PST by KarlInOhio (Soon the January 6 protesters will be held (without trial or bail) longer than Jefferson Davis was.)
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To: hinckley buzzard
The ACLU began as a communist front organization.

If I recall correctly, wasn’t it originally designed, to defend communists?

20 posted on 01/11/2023 8:56:28 PM PST by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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