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echo: barktopus
to: Gary Britt
from: Geo.
date: 2007-03-10 22:52:56
subject: Re: Justice Dept.: FBI misused Patriot Act

From: "Geo." 

If it's not reported then there is no checking to see if it was proper
application or not.

Geo.

"Gary Britt"  wrote in
message news:45f2f979$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> 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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