Director of FBI Urges Renewal of Patriot Act
FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III urged lawmakers yesterday to renew intelligence-gathering measures in the USA Patriot Act that are set to expire in December, calling them “exceptional” tools to help protect national security.
The law, passed shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, created divisions between proponents, who said it was necessary to deter terrorism, and privacy advocates warning that it tramples on Americans’ civil liberties. Portions of the law are up for reauthorization this year.
Mueller told members of the Senate Judiciary Committee he hopes that the reauthorization of two provisions would be far less controversial than in previous years. One of those provisions, which helps authorities secure access to business records, “has been exceptionally helpful in our national security investigations,” he said.
In response to a question from Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin (D-Md.), Mueller said that his agents had used the provision about 220 times between 2004 and 2007. Data for last year were not yet available, he said.
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Of course he does.
The Patriot act included every unconstitutional fantasy the FBI had been piling up since J. Edgar Hoover started the organization.
-jcr
"The problem with trying to child-proof the world, is that it makes people neglect the far more important task of world-proofing the child." -- Hugh Daniel
How transparent can they be?!
I say we respond with a demand for the dissolving of the FBI and the Homeland Security Dept. permanently, and all their jobs abolished immediately.
We don't have to take this shit.
We don't need them and we don't want them.
GTFO!
You got that right.
And barricade the walls of the states, use our sovereignty resolutions to make the FBI into an illegal invader just like the past.
The FBI can not be trusted, even though former agents can be.
FBI Motto & Core Values:
Our Motto
"Fidelity, Bravery, and Integrity."
Our Core Values
• Rigorous obedience to the Constitution of the United States;
• Respect for the dignity of all those we protect;
• Compassion;
• Fairness;
• Uncompromising personal integrity and institutional integrity;
• Accountability by accepting responsibility for our actions and decisions and the consequences of our actions and decisions; and
• Leadership, both personal and professional.
http://www.fbi.gov/quickfacts.htm
FBI History;
The truth? After the FBI took command 79 men, women, and children were burned to death. Notice this FBI History entry doesn't even mention the FBI.
Ruby Ridge? Omitted from FBI History page entirely:
http://www.fbi.gov/libref/historic/history/historicdates.htm
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Great post sempiternal
well said!
Patriot4Liberty1776
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Hasn't it been ruled
Hasn't it been ruled unconstitutional 5 or 6 times already by Federal Judges?
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These people are so predictable!! Is there a way to use that....
predictability to our advantage in the future? How can we exploit that power-hungry trait?
Lol, that's a good line of thinking...
I'm not sure tho. I'd have to ponder that over.
Give it a rest Mueller...
you're a fascist control freak. Your bureaucracy (the "FBI") is useless. Let's disband it. We the people can fight these supposed terrorists ourselves.
It's Irnoic
The Patriot Act is supposed to stop terrorism.
Yet, the FBI arrested Israelis with a truck load of explosives on 9/11 near the World Trade Center, and just let them go back to Israel.
Just imagine what would happen to you if you were arrested with a truck load of explosives on any day, anywhere.
Yeah, seems we could probably just abolish the FBI and be better off.
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