From: Rich Gauszka 

Such a technicality that Gonzales left open the possibility of criminal charges?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6470855,00.html

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales left open the possibility of pursuing
criminal charges against FBI agents or lawyers who improperly used the USA
Patriot Act in pursuit of suspected terrorists and spies.

Gary Britt wrote:
> Only technically.  If the only thing wrong with a particular use of a
> national security letter was the failure to report.  That's a problem,
> but not a major one.  On the other hand the use of national security
> letter when it was not proper to use that procedure at all, and thereby
> avoiding other liberty interest safeguards are a more troubling
> violation.  If those more troubling violations were knowing and
> deliberate people should be fired.  If they were do to confusion and
> lack of training then that problem should be corrected immediately.
>
> Gary
>
> Geo. wrote:
>> Correct usage requires REQUIRES reporting. Therefore by definition
>> unreported uses are incorrect usage.
>>
>> Geo.
>>
>> "Gary Britt" 
wrote in message
>> news:45f2daa6$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>  Not dollars but yen maybe.  The failure to report
number is not
>>> the same thing as the number of incorrect uses of the national
>>> security letters.  The report also said national security letters are
>>> a vital tool in protecting the country.
>>>
>>> Gary
>>>
>>> Geo. wrote:
>>>> "Gary Britt"
 wrote in message
>>>> news:45f1a243{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>>> This quote below says a few agents were a bit slip shod in their
>>>>> work. That it isn't something ordered by Karl Rove, and its the
>>>>> Bush whitehouse's justice department that is finding,
correcting,
>>>>> and reporting these slip shod couple of events.
>>>>
>>>> couple of events?
>>>>
>>>>>> Over the entire three-year period, the audit found
the FBI issued
>>>>>> 143,074 national security letters
>>>>>> In 2005, the FBI told Congress that its agents in
2003 and 2004
>>>>>> had delivered only 9,254 national security letters
>>>>
>>>> so now 133,820 is a couple? Could you spare a couple dollars?
>>>>
>>>> Geo.
>>

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