 Gonzales was told of FBI violations, After getting report, attorney general said he knew of no wrongdoing |
| Gonzales was told of FBI violations, After getting report, attorney general said he knew of no wrongdoing |
 Jul 10 2007, 08:11 AM
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Gonzales was told of FBI violations
QUOTE As he sought to renew the USA Patriot Act two years ago, Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales assured lawmakers that the FBI had not abused its potent new terrorism-fighting powers. "There has not been one verified case of civil liberties abuse," Gonzales told senators on April 27, 2005.
Six days earlier, the FBI sent Gonzales a copy of a report that said its agents had obtained personal information that they were not entitled to have. It was one of at least half a dozen reports of legal or procedural violations that Gonzales received in the three months before he made his statement to the Senate intelligence committee, according to internal FBI documents released under the Freedom of Information Act. The acts recounted in the FBI reports included unauthorized surveillance, an illegal property search and a case in which an Internet firm improperly turned over a compact disc with data that the FBI was not entitled to collect, the documents show. Gonzales was copied on each report that said administrative rules or laws protecting civil liberties and privacy had been violated. The reports also alerted Gonzales in 2005 to problems with the FBI's use of an anti-terrorism tool known as national security letters (NSLs), well before the Justice Department's inspector general brought widespread abuse of the letters in 2004 and 2005 to light in a stinging report this past March. ...... -------------------- Beers that I have had, updated July 5th, 2009: 1,548
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Jul 10 2007, 10:27 AM
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Just because he was copied on the reports doesn't mean he or his aides actually read them. Geez!
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Jul 10 2007, 10:30 AM
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so basically he was CCd on an email.
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Jul 10 2007, 10:34 AM
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Group: Admin Posts: 6,906 Joined: 22-February 06 From: Austin Member No.: 9 |
Did representatives from the FBI, CIA, etc. not address Congress when they were contemplating the renewal of the Patriot Act?
Gonzales should've been rudimentarily aware of the reports he was copied on, but I'm surprised that the FBI didn't speak to Congress and go "um, actually, there actually were some abuses reported..." -------------------- |
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