From: "Rich Gauszka" 

Nobody ever said the Bush Administration was perfect.It's awful difficult
to screw up all the time.


"Gary Britt"  wrote in
message news:45f451fa$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> The checking was done by the Bush DOJ.  So obviously there was checking.
>
> Gary
>
> Geo. wrote:
>> 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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