Posted on 05/22/2015 6:19:27 AM PDT by Enlightened1
FBI agents cant point to any major terrorism cases theyve cracked thanks to the key snooping powers in the Patriot Act, the Justice Departments 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.
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Just think that is what we know of Hillary...
What else is there that has not been discovered?
This administration has made it clear it has no intentions of fighting “the war on terror”. Islam is not bad. We are bringing radical muslims to our nation and sheltering them. We traded 5 Al Qaeda officers for a known deserter/traitor.
“No major cases cracked” because there was never to be any major prosecutions of Islamic terrorists.
I agree with Enlightened1. You are most likely right.
Funny word, that one. What do you think it means?
Mohammedans detonate themselves on crowded buses, crash airplanes into buildings, and rape 10 year old girls?
Silly Rabbit!
Words are for Bureaucrats!
"Terrorists" are whoever and whatever the Government Almighty decides to demonize and dehumanize prior to killing.
Now, some 'terrorists' are genuinely bad people. ISIS and Al Quaeda are prime examples.
But you know what it takes to make you (yes, YOU PERSONALLY) become a "terrorist"?
The stroke of Barack Hussein 0bama's pen.
Nothing more.
I offer the above in answer to your question of WHO they're hunting.
This OBVIOUS Constitutional over reach has GOT to be ended! PERIOD!
The only people who want to keep this in place are those who want to be in a dictatorial position when the bottom falls out from underneath America!
There is no desire to win the “War on terror” because then their excuse to snoop on everyone would go away.
The law that killed a Republic.
No desire to win the war on terror just as there was no desire among the left to win the Cold War, they see them as FELLOW TRAVELERS in the destruction of the West.
Muslim Brotherhood is IN the White House.
Obama’s foreign policy is decidedly pro-Islamic imperialism.
Leftist thinking come in all colors and political ‘flavors’.
Heck, look at how the GOP elites are bowing and fawning over everything Obama does at the moment.
“Political undesirables”
The goal of the War on Poverty isn’t victory either, it’s about keeping an underclass of Democrats dependent on government (and welfare state politicians who promise to keep their benefits coming NEXT year).
Today Google has far more powers of observation than Hoover ever did. Should the EU socialists magically back off their concerted mega billion shakedown of Google now underway, assume Google figured this out. Microsoft wasn't so clever.
Yahoo wouldn't play ball, Google was more than happy to.
Google has the abilities they have because it was useful to the right people for Goole to go that route.
JMHo
That’s because they’ve spent WAY more time and effort in tracking the regime’s political opposition than watching Muslims and leftist activists.
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