Clear violation of what rights? Right to privacy? Where in the constitution does it mention a right to privacy? That right was created during Roe v Wade to kill babyies legally.
Don't worry ....didn't they just waste 170 million trying to develop a way, in vain, for accessing their databases and sending email!!!!!!!!!!!! More than likely this is a waste of time (and even if it works they will probably be checking where you or i were hanging out instead of keeping tabs of terrorist Ali and Mujahadeen Husseini).
Wagglebee, how often must you be reminded that we are at war and we have enemies that want to destroy our nation? And indluded in the Hate America group is the Electronic Privacy Information Center and the AP; for both entities, every secret must be divulged to our enemies.
Don't you think all this information is sitting in private databases anyway? They are looking for patterns and matches - makes all the sense in the world to me.
The FBI or any government agency has nothing compared to other private companies that collect data from courthouses, online purchases, or anything else....
Your Statement: "I don't have any objection to the FBI keeping files on suspicious people, but to maintain records on everyone who just happened to travel during this three month period is a clear violation of rights."
Specifically spell out what rights....I've searched all amendment and it says nothing about your statement. You sir, are mal-informed.
Don't want to travel, don't.
Not a problem. Incompetence still reigns.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1320527/posts
I disagree. When the DC snipers were hard at work shooting people, the police had, in their computers, records of every person they stopped in roadblocks. If the nitwit running the hunt had bothered to look in those computers he would have discovered that the two perps who were finally caught were stopped by roadblocks TEN TIMES or more and then passed through.
This kind of information is very unlikely to harm anyone else, but it could be vital in identifying perpetrators. The FBI would be exceedingly foolish to destroy these records.
Personally I don't care whether the FBI keeps copies of records that are available in this way. As said above, if I wanted to keep something secret I'd use cash. But there's no way on earth they can do anything harmful with this information to ordinary citizens. There's just too much information, and why should they?
Well, then, I suppose my name's on that list. I flew from Colorado to Canada the week prior to 9/11 and returned to Colorado from Toronto on 9/9.
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As part of its investigation into the terrorist attacks, the FBI asked for, and got, the records from a number of airlines shortly after Sept. 11. The FBI also got one set of data through a federal grand jury subpoena.
Why do the airlines even need to keep tabs on where you are staying? They don't mail tickets out anymore (travel is largely ticketless until you arrive at the airport and are handed a boarding pass).
Same with keeping tabs on what meal you ate. After the flight is over, such details can be purged at the airline end. Officials can only request such information if it is collected in the first place. Obviously the airlines kept that data.
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