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« Random Lyrics Thursday | Main | Random Lyrics Thursday » FBI Faked Alerts to Get Phone RecordsHaving watched many cop shows and movies (which are always accurate reflections of reality), I would be more surprised to find out this sort of thing doesn't happen often - even prior to the Towers getting blown up - for all sorts of reasons besides "terrorism". The US justice department is preparing a report which concludes that the FBI repeatedly broke the law by invoking terrorism emergencies that did not exist to obtain more than 2,000 telephone call records over four years from 2002, including those of journalists on US newspapers, according to emails obtained by the Washington Post. I think this is my favorite bit:
They prolly said something to the effect of "We're sorry if you were offended" which seems to qualify as an apology nowadays. We're not sorry for what we did. We don't think we did anything wrong. We're just sorry you got upset at us for it (read: we're sorry we got caught). By min | February 5, 2010, 8:13 AM | Liberal Outrage |