government abuses
2007-03-21 17:48:04.631526+00 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.