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government abuses

2007-03-21 18:48:04.631526+01 by Dan Lyke 1 comments

Larry points out that everyone's up in arms over the firings of the the U.S. Attorneys, but nobody's riled up about the FBI overstepping their bounds in their use of the National Security Letters. Here's an article about the FBI's abuse of said letters, and probably deliberate destruction of paper trails. My personal opinion is that the FBI has been doing this sort of stuff for just shy of 99 years, and there's no political will to clean out that organization.

And in case you missed it, I stuffed a link to Daze Reader's rundown on the two prosecutors who appear to have been fired for being unwilling to prosecute obscenity cases in the comments to yesterday's entry about the topic.

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#Comment Re: made: 2007-03-21 22:15:05.520623+01 by: ebwolf

Fastcompany has an article in the current issue about the FBIs challenges to internal restructuring. It's an interesting read but you might have to wait until next month if you don't subscribe.

Basically gives a rundown of where the politics lie in changing the organization and the barriers to change. There actually is alot of political will to change the FBI but there is amazing inertia that has to be overcome - starting with a shift from after-the-fact investigations to pro-active counter-intelligence.

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