Posted on 11/14/2014 7:23:42 AM PST by george76
The Justice Department acknowledged that it misled a federal Appeals Court during oral arguments last month in a case reviewing whether the government should be able to secretly conduct electronic surveillance of Americans without a warrant.
In a newly unsealed letter, a Justice Department lawyer told the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit that it spoke erroneously when describing the disclosure restrictions placed upon the FBI's use of so-called national security letters. NSLs, as they are often referred, can compel companies to hand over communications data or financial records of certain users to authorities conducting a national security investigation.
Companies are often given an NSL with an accompanying gag order that prevents them from publicly revealing any details regarding the NSL, or disclosing that it even exists. But during arguments, government lawyers indicated to the contrary that a company could reveal that it had received a specific NSL and "discuss the quality" of it.
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I highly doubt that your parents would have been as lenient, or dumb, as this Congress.
Scooter Libby spent three years in federal prison for misstating a date in his testimony before Congress during the phony Varlerie Plame kerfuffle. Who has been indicted for any of the lies told to Congress by this administration?
You sure got that right!
And, as a parent/grandparent, myself, I developed a pretty good eye for spotting Whoppers sold in places other than Burger King...
Lessee here... the Department of JUST-US andmits to the 9th Circus Court that there was lying.
Way to bury the story, guys...
And today we find out that the JD is sending out airplanes to fly around and collect people’s information in their cell phones.
But they swear they are only keeping the data that belongs to the bad guys. And conservatives.
“Misled”
“Spoke erroneously”
“suggestion was mistaken”
“inadvertent inaccuracy”
“shave the truth and mislead Congress”
My dear, departed, mother would call that “lying”.
And so would I.
Don’t forget obstruction of justice, concealing evidence, abuse of office...
Of course, any of that would require an Attorney General who wasn’t a criminal lapdog himself.
I’m pretty sure scooter Libby did not spend that time in prison...though he did have to pay a ridiculously large fine. He was given a pardon for the prison time.
Where are all the hotshot legal eagles on our team? No one goes to jail in this administration. Makes my BP soar.
DOJ fake cell towers, Cessna spy planes, NSA data mining of Credit card records, cell records, Internet URL’s.
DHS butt diddling folks at the airports, militarization of local law enforcement.
IRS attacking innocent Americans for having a dissenting voice, FBI, BATF, EPA, OSHA harassing Tea Party conservatives.
One skinny lil Kenyan using regulation/executive orders to change the fabric of a nation. Gutting our military, purging anyone with a dissenting voice.
Transparency? That's a freakin joke...right? Feel like I'm in some sort of espionage novel with the Russian/Chinese hacking, stealing and infiltrating American corporations, military, gubbamint.
What a nightmare!
The FBI can lie to the Courts but it’s a crime for anyone else to lie to the FBI.
And these people wonder why a growing number of Americans see armed resistance as a viable option to dealing with government tyranny.
It clearly depends on WHO is doing the lying.
Since the Courts have no expectations that Liberals will tell the truth; they need not punish the Liberals for meeting their expectations (same with the Press).
Since Conservatives have stated morals; they are expected to tell the truth and it is therefore understandable that they be held to a higher standard.
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