>Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 9:36
>From: lynn
>Subject: FBI Found to Misuse Security Letters (From Dave Farber's IP)
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>FBI Found to Misuse Security Letters; 2003-06 Audit Cites Probes of Citizens
>Justice Department official Glenn A. Fine testifies about his probe of
>national security letters. (Dennis Cook -- Associated Press)
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>Dan Eggen, *The Washington Post*, 14 Mar 2008
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>The FBI has increasingly used administrative orders to obtain the personal
>records of U.S. citizens rather than foreigners implicated in terrorism or
>counterintelligence investigations, and at least once it relied on such
>orders to obtain records that a special intelligence-gathering court had
>deemed protected by the First Amendment, according to two government audits
>released yesterday.
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>The episode was outlined in a Justice Department report that concluded the
>FBI had abused its intelligence-gathering privileges by issuing
>inadequately documented "national security letters" from 2003 to 2006,
>after which changes were put in place that the report called sound.
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>A report a year ago by the Justice Department's inspector general
>disclosed that abuses involving national security letters had occurred
>from 2003 through 2005 and helped provoke the changes. But the report
>makes it clear that the abuses persisted in 2006 and disclosed that 60
>percent of the nearly 50,000 security letters issued that year by the FBI
>targeted Americans. [...]
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