The FBI secretly sought information last year on 3,501 U.S. citizens and legal residents from their banks and credit card, telephone and Internet companies without a court's approval, the Justice Department said Friday. It was the first time the Bush administration has publicly disclosed how often it uses the administrative subpoena known as a national security letter, which allows the executive branch of government to obtain records about people in terrorism and espionage investigations without court approval. Friday's disclosure was mandated as part of the renewal of the Patriot Act, the administration's sweeping anti-terror law. The FBI delivered a total of 9,254 NSLs relating to 3,501 people in 2005, according to a report submitted late Friday to Democratic and Republican leaders in the House and Senate. In some cases, the bureau demanded information about one person from several companies. The department also reported it received a secret court's approval for 155 warrants to examine business records last year, under a Patriot Act provision that includes library records. However, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has said the department has never used the provision to ask for library records. The number was a significant jump over past use of the warrant for business records. A year ago, Gonzales told Congress there had been 35 warrants approved between November 2003 and April 2005. http://apnews.myway.com/article/20060428/D8H99DSG1.html 3,500 citizens under investigation for terrorism? Right...
I wish they would spy on those responsible for high gas prices in the US. If they spy on me some day, they will be board out of there minds... D
With all of your anti-gay and religious posts, you're probably one of the 3,501 they took a peak at last year
yo-yo you should create a conspiracy niche site. Seems like you could put up a lot of content and your visitors just might be crazy enough to click your ads. You could do quite well
Ehhh, I wish you well with your cause Yo-Yo, if the cause is to get rid of big government all together! Just realize that big government is actually advocated on the left. The right is against it, but somehow Bush has bypassed them.... Clinton authorized wiretaps as well. We need Congress to repeal the Executive Orders act from FDR. Government is the problem, not the solution.
I'm outraged! 3,501? That's all? Thanks yo-yo! I knew you were lying recently when you said Bush and his cronies were spying on all Americans. Now we learn that out of of 300 million people in America, it's less than one percent of one percent of one percent of one percent of one percent. 3501? That's it? I'm outraged! I thought our government was doing their job, but 3501? That's all? OMG, alex jones finally has his smoking gun! 3501. Might as well be saying Bush (oops, I mean the FBI) is spying on an Amish community in Minnesota. The FBI is spying on the number of people that use the toilet at a Mall on any given day! Gotta love it! I can't get over the laughter! You actually used a source that conclusively proves you make things up with no facts! 3501 And to think, of all the things you could have pulled off of Drudge to prove yourself wrong, you could have chose this one instead: http://apnews.myway.com/article/20060428/D8H941400.html