Thursday, March 13, 2008

Take away checks and balances...

... and you'll get plenty of surveillance without justification.

Is anyone surprised that the FBI continued to abuse national security letters? Without oversight, you get misbehavior. That's exactly why judicial review is essential, even if the FISA court is mostly a fig leaf.

There is no report of any administrative accountability inside the FBI for the abuse, either.

I love this quote:

House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, D-Michigan, said, "At the same time the administration is trying to intimidate the Congress into giving it additional spying power, we find out yet again that it has abused its authority to pry into the lives of law-abiding Americans."

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