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» Spy Court Fast Facts - CNN
05/11/13 16:05 from fbi aclu report - Google News
Spy Court Fast Facts CNN February 12, 2003 - The ACLU , along with a coalition of other civil liberties groups, asks the Supreme Court to overturn new, more lenient standards for wiretaps in foreign intelligence investigations. It would ...
- Spy Court Fast Facts - CNN - 11/5/2013
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court was created in 1978.
Before the Patriot Act, foreign intelligence had to be a primary purpose of the investigation. Now, foreign intelligence has to be a significant purpose.
Rosemary Collyer
Raymond Dearie
Claire Eagan
Martin Feldman
Thomas Hogan
Mary McLaughlin
Michael Mosman
F. Dennis Saylor
Reggie B. Walton (Presiding)
Susan Webber Wright
James Zagel
William Bryson (Presiding), Federal Circuit
Jose Cabranes (Second Circuit)
October 26, 2001 - President George W. Bush signs into law the USA Patriot Act, after the attacks of September 11th.
» What Powers Does the Civil Liberties Oversight Board Have? - American Civil Liberties Union News and Information (blog)
04/11/13 11:11 from fbi aclu report - Google News
What Powers Does the Civil Liberties Oversight Board Have? American Civil Liberties Union News and Information (blog) By Jay Stanley, Senior Policy Analyst, ACLU Speech, Privacy & Technology Project at 9:28am. At a time when the ... ...
What Powers Does the Civil Liberties Oversight Board Have?
- Provide “advice and counsel on policy development and implementation” by reviewing proposed legislation, regulations and policies.
- Provide oversight by “continually review[ing]” implementation of the regulations, policies, and procedures, “information sharing practices,” and “other actions” of the executive branch.
- Work with the privacy officers and civil liberties officers of federal agencies—receive reports from, make recommendations to, and “when appropriate,” “coordinate the activities” of those officers.
- Submit semiannual reports to Congress and the President.
- Inform the public by releasing its reports “in unclassified form to the greatest extent possible,” by holding public hearings, or through other methods.
- “Have access from any department, agency, or element of the executive branch” to “all relevant” records or material, “including classified information consistent with applicable law. “
- “Interview, take statements from, or take public testimony from personnel” of any element of the executive branch.
- “Request information or assistance from any State, tribal, or local government.”
- Compel testimony by subpoena from persons “other than departments, agencies, and elements of the executive branch,” a majority of the board can submit a written request to the Attorney General to issue a subpoena on behalf of the board. Within 30 days, the AG must either comply or provide a written explanation for a denial to the board and to the House and Senate Judiciary Committees. This is a strangely contorted way of giving the board subpoena power, and inserts a powerful executive branch official whose agency may be a subject of the board’s oversight into the process—but at least it only applies to subpoenas directed outside government.
» FBI “Suspicious Activity Reports” Target Political Dissent | Global ...
01/11/13 09:02 from fbi - Google Blog Search
» ACLU Report: FBI Has No Safeguards to Protect Against Constitutional Violations - ticklethewire.com
31/10/13 11:40 from fbi aclu report - Google News
ticklethewire.com ACLU Report : FBI Has No Safeguards to Protect Against Constitutional Violations ticklethewire.com The FBI's lack of safeguards in collecting suspicious activity leads to privacy violations as well as racial and rel...
31/10/13 02:40 from fbi aclu report - Google News
FBI program's lack of safeguards allows civil liberties violations: ACLU The Japan Times WASHINGTON – An FBI program that collects reports about suspicious activity in the United States does not have adequate safeguards and leads to ...
30/10/13 14:47 from fbi aclu report - Google News
FBI's 'eGuardian' Program For Reporting Suspicious Activity Raised Civil ... Huffington Post ACLU officials said the documents confirm that the programs give law enforcement officials broad discretion to collect information o...
» FBI program's lack of safeguards allows civil liberties violations, ACLU ... - Washington Post
30/10/13 12:08 from fbi aclu report - Google News
FBI program's lack of safeguards allows civil liberties violations, ACLU ... Washington Post In a new report , “ ACLU Eye on the FBI ,” the organization said that its examination of the FBI's eGuardian system, which collects “sus...
» Comey's Hollow MLK Guidance to FBI Agents - American Civil Liberties Union News and Information (blog)
30/10/13 10:33 from fbi aclu report - Google News
Comey's Hollow MLK Guidance to FBI Agents American Civil Liberties Union News and Information (blog) It is an interesting choice of words, given that just last month the ACLU published Unleashed and Unaccountable: The FBI's Unche...
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» Mark F. Giuliano Named Deputy Director of the FBI
05/11/13 02:00 from Current
— Washington, D.C.
» Mark Giuliano To Be Named FBI's Deputy Director - Huffington Post
05/11/13 14:00 from fbi - Google News
Washington Post Mark Giuliano To Be Named FBI's Deputy Director Huffington Post Getty File. WASHINGTON -- WASHINGTON (AP) — A 25-year veteran of the FBI , Mark F. Giuliano, will become the bureau's new deputy director, overseeing...
» FBI chief Comey names new deputy director - Washington Post (blog)
05/11/13 14:51 from james b. comey - Google News
Washington Post (blog) FBI chief Comey names new deputy director Washington Post (blog) FBI Director James B . Comey has named 25-year FBI veteran Mark Giuliano to be the agency's new deputy director, overseeing all domestic and inte...
FBI chief Comey names new deputy director
BY AL KAMEN

President Obama and new FBI director James Comey at the latter’s installation ceremony. (Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images)
FBI Director James B. Comey has named 25-year FBI veteran Mark Giuliano to be the agency’s new deputy director, overseeing all domestic and international investigative and intelligence activities, the bureau announced Monday. He begins Dec. 1, when current deputy Sean Joyce retires.
Giuliano, who began his career here as a special agent at the Washington Field Office, has a broad background in national security and counterterrorism and served as the FBI’s on-scene commander in Afghanistan, supporting U.S. Special Forces. Since August 2012, Giuliano been the special agent in charge in Atlanta.
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» Former FBI agent Mike German talks about the NSA - Daily Caller
05/11/13 01:53 from fbi - Google News
Former FBI agent Mike German talks about the NSA Daily Caller Mike German is a 16-year veteran of the FBI , where he served as a special agent in domestic terrorism. His work led him to resign in 2004 after the implementation of the 9/11...
» Snowden Shakes Up Washington - The American Conservative
05/11/13 01:09 from fbi aclu report - Google News
The American Conservative Snowden Shakes Up Washington The American Conservative It was the exposure that forced them to respond with outrage and that could lead to serious diplomatic strife—already the affected counties are demanding a ...
» Is LAX shooting the result of anti-government hatred? - Los Angeles Times
04/11/13 20:50 from fbi aclu report - Google News
Is LAX shooting the result of anti-government hatred? Los Angeles Times It's depressing, but there is probably no way to fully protect the public against people like 23-year-old Paul Anthony Ciancia, who, according to the FBI , was c...
» FBI Seeks Information Regarding Several Cyber Fugitives
05/11/13 02:00 from Current
— Washington, D.C.
» Monday Morning Skeptic: In Boston Bombing, FBI Fights for Public's Right to ... - WhoWhatWhy
04/11/13 10:19 from fbi - Google News
WhoWhatWhy Monday Morning Skeptic: In Boston Bombing, FBI Fights for Public's Right to ... WhoWhatWhy For more than six months, WhoWhatWhy has been asking questions about the Boston Marathon bombing and aftermath, pursuing our consti...
» Retired FBI agent Phil Torsney returns to tackle unsolved murder of Amy Mihaljevic - Plain Dealer
04/11/13 10:10 from fbi - Google News
Retired FBI agent Phil Torsney returns to tackle unsolved murder of Amy Mihaljevic Plain Dealer That's why Torsney found himself standing on an isolated road in rural Ashland County just a few months after he capped off his FBI caree...
» The Buzz: Did carelessness lead to leak of FBI document? - The San Luis Obispo Tribune
04/11/13 03:45 from fbi - Google News
The San Luis Obispo Tribune The Buzz: Did carelessness lead to leak of FBI document? The San Luis Obispo Tribune Among the questions in the developing Ron Calderon corruption investigation: Just how did the media get hold of an FBI affid...
» GPS Tracking Requires Warrants, US Appeals Court Rules - Huffington Post
03/11/13 22:28 from fbi aclu report - Google News
GPS Tracking Requires Warrants, US Appeals Court Rules Huffington Post But police, working with the FBI , soon put a GPS device under his bumper and closed in on the van after another burglary. They found Katzin ... "This case in ou...
» FBI probes motives of Los Angeles shooter - Aljazeera.com
03/11/13 21:21 from fbi - Google News
Raw Story FBI probes motives of Los Angeles shooter Aljazeera.com FBI agents are probing the background and possible motivation of a man who opened fire at a packed terminal at Los Angeles International Airport and shot dead an unarmed f...
» Accused LAX shooter unable to answer questions in FBI investigation
03/11/13 18:07 from fbi - Google Blog Search
» NRA backs ACLU suit over gun registry fears - Tribune-Review
02/11/13 20:44 from fbi aclu report - Google News
NRA backs ACLU suit over gun registry fears Tribune-Review It was the ACLU's head lobbyist in Washington that contacted the NRA, showing the gun-rights group FBI training manuals on how to collect firearm records. “I reached out to (...
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» Former FBI agent Mike German talks about the NSA - Daily Caller
05/11/13 01:53 from fbi - Google News
Former FBI agent Mike German talks about the NSA Daily Caller Mike German is a 16-year veteran of the FBI , where he served as a special agent in domestic terrorism. His work led him to resign in 2004 after the implementation of the 9/11...
» Snowden Shakes Up Washington - The American Conservative
05/11/13 01:09 from fbi aclu report - Google News
The American Conservative Snowden Shakes Up Washington The American Conservative It was the exposure that forced them to respond with outrage and that could lead to serious diplomatic strife—already the affected counties are demanding a ...
» Is LAX shooting the result of anti-government hatred? - Los Angeles Times
04/11/13 20:50 from fbi aclu report - Google News
Is LAX shooting the result of anti-government hatred? Los Angeles Times It's depressing, but there is probably no way to fully protect the public against people like 23-year-old Paul Anthony Ciancia, who, according to the FBI , was c...
» FBI Seeks Information Regarding Several Cyber Fugitives
05/11/13 02:00 from Current
— Washington, D.C.
» Monday Morning Skeptic: In Boston Bombing, FBI Fights for Public's Right to ... - WhoWhatWhy
04/11/13 10:19 from fbi - Google News
WhoWhatWhy Monday Morning Skeptic: In Boston Bombing, FBI Fights for Public's Right to ... WhoWhatWhy For more than six months, WhoWhatWhy has been asking questions about the Boston Marathon bombing and aftermath, pursuing our consti...
04/11/13 10:10 from fbi - Google News
Retired FBI agent Phil Torsney returns to tackle unsolved murder of Amy Mihaljevic Plain Dealer That's why Torsney found himself standing on an isolated road in rural Ashland County just a few months after he capped off his FBI caree...
04/11/13 03:45 from fbi - Google News
The San Luis Obispo Tribune The Buzz: Did carelessness lead to leak of FBI document? The San Luis Obispo Tribune Among the questions in the developing Ron Calderon corruption investigation: Just how did the media get hold of an FBI affid...
03/11/13 22:28 from fbi aclu report - Google News
GPS Tracking Requires Warrants, US Appeals Court Rules Huffington Post But police, working with the FBI , soon put a GPS device under his bumper and closed in on the van after another burglary. They found Katzin ... "This case in ou...
03/11/13 21:21 from fbi - Google News
Raw Story FBI probes motives of Los Angeles shooter Aljazeera.com FBI agents are probing the background and possible motivation of a man who opened fire at a packed terminal at Los Angeles International Airport and shot dead an unarmed f...
03/11/13 18:07 from fbi - Google Blog Search
02/11/13 20:44 from fbi aclu report - Google News
NRA backs ACLU suit over gun registry fears Tribune-Review It was the ACLU's head lobbyist in Washington that contacted the NRA, showing the gun-rights group FBI training manuals on how to collect firearm records. “I reached out to (...
NYT: Obama Reassures F.B.I. at Ceremony for New Director
Stephen Crowley/The New York Times
New F.B.I. Director Is Introduced: President Obama welcomes James Comey, the newly sworn-in head of the F.B.I.
By EMMARIE HUETTEMAN
Published: October 28, 2013
WASHINGTON — President Obama on Monday assured employees of the Federal Bureau of Investigation that he would fight to keep politics from interfering with their mission as the agency struggles to contend with budget shortfalls.
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Judge John Walker issued a ceremonial oath of office to F.B.I. Director James B. Comey at the bureau's headquarters in Washington on Monday.
Speaking at the agency’s headquarters at a ceremony recognizing James B. Comey as the new director of the F.B.I., Mr. Obama said it was unfortunate that the broad spending cuts known as sequestration have affected the agency’s resources as it tries to adjust to constantly changing threats.
“I’ll keep fighting for those resources because our country asks and expects a lot from you,” Mr. Obama said, “and we should make sure you’ve got the resources you need to do the job.”
A current hiring freeze at the F.B.I. is projected to leave a few thousand positions vacant by late next year. The agency has also made significant cuts to training and other expenses, including deciding to shutter its offices for about 10 days in the coming year, in the face of shrinking resources.
Mr. Obama praised Mr. Comey as a director with broad appeal and experience, having served as a former deputy attorney general under President George W. Bush. John Ashcroft and Michael B. Mukasey, former attorneys general in the Bush administration, attended the ceremony on Monday.
“It’s just about impossible to find a matter of justice he has not tackled, and it’s hard to imagine somebody who is more uniquely qualified to lead a bureau that covers all of it — traditional threats like violent and organized crime to the constantly changing threats like terrorism and cybersecurity,” Mr. Obama said.
Mr. Comey said that as director he will instruct new agents to visit the memorial to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Washington, in addition to continuing to visit the Holocaust Museum, as a way of keeping in mind their unique responsibility.
“I think it will serve as a different kind of lesson, one more personal to the bureau, of the dangers in becoming untethered to oversight and accountability,” he said.
Mr. Comey was sworn in during a private ceremony on Sept. 4., taking the reins from Robert S. Mueller III. During Mr. Mueller’s 12-year tenure, which began just before the 2001 terrorist attacks, he oversaw the F.B.I.'s shift to intelligence and counterterrorism, including a focus on cybersecurity. Under law, Mr. Comey will serve a 10-year term at the F.B.I.
The Senate voted almost unanimously to approve the nomination of Mr. Comey, a Republican, in July. While serving as acting attorney general when his boss, Mr. Ashcroft, was ill in 2004, he notably refused to reauthorize a program of warrantless eavesdropping, an episode that made him a more appealing choice to Democrats.
A version of this article appears in print on October 29, 2013, on page A14 of the New York edition with the headline: President Reassures F.B.I. Workers At Ceremony for New Director.
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In my strictly personal and based on my personal experience, not extensive but direct, and not very humble opinion, FBI is one of the most intellectually deficient, (e. g.:
- "After more than fifty years of rivalry, Agency people are still perceived by FBI agents as intellectual, Ivy League, wine drinking, pipe smoking, international relations types, sometimes aloof. The Bureau's people are regarded by CIA as cigar smoking, beer drinking, door-knocking cops. What kind of restructuring might overcome such stereotypical perceptions especially when they are generally true?")
arrogant, primitively vindictive - against their own and our own people, but not necessarily and not always against the criminals (I will explain this in my following post), and inept American institutions. The only thing that stands a notch below FBI in this respect is the city psychiatric hospital, with which I also did have some experience, both extensive and direct. I feel very bad for the FBI young people (fbi mistrains - GS; see for example:
"a joint review between the US Justice Department, the national Innocence Project out of New York, and the NACDL of cases where potentially flawed microscopic hair analysis may have been introduced as evidence and produced false convictions. According to Reimer, out of 310 DNA exonerations nationally, 72 of them (23%) included faulty microscopic hair analysis, often layered on top of other flawed evidence as corroboration. I'd not seen that figure, but it's repeated in the press release below. That would make hair microscopy perhaps the most significant source of forensic science error in DNA exoneration cases. You can imagine that, layered on top of a mistaken eyewitness, such forensic corroboration could be very powerful testimony.")
and my most grave concern is the counterintelligence matters which might suffer (see: fbi counterintelligence is flawed - GS; e.g.:
OIG Special Report: A Review of the FBI's Progress in Responding ...
www.justice.gov/oig/special/s0710/ : ... sources involved in the Hanssen case and FBI counterintelligence activities, ... in the FBI's counterintelligence program and a deeply flawed internal security ...
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Special Report: A Review of the FBI's Performance in Deterring ...
www.justice.gov/oig/special/0308/final.pdf :problems in the FBI's counterintelligence program and a deeply flawed FBI internal security program. C. FBI Analytical and Investigative Penetration Efforts: 1978 ...)
due to these deficiencies (real or just perceived by me subjectively; ACLU report is more in line with the first "scenario"). I wonder how many robert hanssens they still have in their midst. They are obsessed with the issue of control, however I doubt that they really know what the true control is and how to practice it. I also doubt that they are able to understand in depth the human nature which is or should be their primary subject, not the most dazzling technical advances. No wonder that at least more than one third to one half, depending on a type, of all violent crimes could not be investigated successfully and solved:
Overview
- In the nation in 2011, 47.7 percent of violent crimes and 18.6 percent of property crimes were cleared by arrest or exceptional means.
- When considering clearances of violent crimes, 64.8 percent of murder offenses, 41.2 percent of forcible rape offenses, 28.7 percent of robbery offenses, and 56.9 percent of aggravated assault offenses were cleared.
- Among property crimes, 21.5 percent of larceny-theft offenses, 12.7 percent of burglary offenses, and 11.9 percent of motor vehicle theft offenses were cleared.
- 18.8 percent of arson offenses were cleared by arrest or exceptional means in 2011.
- 32.7 percent of arson offenses cleared involved juveniles (persons under age 18); this was the highest percentage of all offense clearances involving only juveniles.
My impression is, and I think, I shared it several times earlier, that one of the main problems is the FBI institutional culture; the sick shadow of sick Jay Edgar Hoover still hangs over them and permeates all modes of their existence and work; it seems to me, the FBI culture comes from largely limited in its intellectual scope although quite straightforward and hopefully honest police culture. I think, and now it is in my very humble opinion of a person with rather limited experiences and impressions of their work, FBI will benefit from a deep and broad reform, from the top to the bottom and from the bottom to the top. I think, again IMVHO, that it will benefit from the influx of talented and well trained professionals from the military, intelligence and academic-scientific communities; and if it is appropriate and if I am asked, I will definitely try to help FBI with this reform to the best of my abilities. The style and level of their work has to correspond to and has to respond to the ever more and more complex demands of our times and our age. I would guess that rage and frustration in this brief statement of mine are probably quite palpable, but, I hope that my deep sympathy to this great institution is been felt also. The problem is that it is not just my personal frustration and rage; this rage is felt and expressed by many and on many different levels, from the Congress to the press to the ordinary people and to ACLU in their report (despite some troubling questions about the true nature of authorship, origins and inspiration for this report). And do not try to brand me as a "leftist" or a "commie" also, and also quite hypocritically, to justify your actions or misactions - they cannot be justified; and I am not any of these things at all, although I do not even have to waste my emotions and to explain my historical interests to those who simply are not capable to understand them due to their lack of intellectual curiosity and their lack of historical knowledge. I am what I am and I said what I said, and I said what I felt like; and believe me, I will not hesitate one single minute and one tiny little bit to say it again if I feel like saying something and if I feel that I have to say it. My dear friends, you are not going to control us (the great and free American society and culture), we will control and reform you. And do not try to present your entirely selfish, institutional, parochial and extremely counterproductive for the whole country interests, and your sick and counterproductive selfish and purely human and entirely self-serving and arrogant "need for control and domination" as something more, bigger and grander than it really is. Look at yourselves in a mirror: truly historical and whole country scale mirror and try to understand who you really are and what you are really doing and not doing: just yesterday (historically) street cops (whom I love and have enormous respect for) who took too much upon themselves, do not really understand the changed and changing times and enormous challenges that you are facing and who are not really able to meet these challenges and to do their jobs adequately, substituting it sometimes, according with old crazy COINTELPRO recipes with some type of self-gratuitous entertainment, cheap on the personal needs level, but very and unnecessarily expensive on a national and on a national pocket levels. And I do have any right to say this as a citizen of the United States of America - my adoptive country but my only country which I do love very much, just like most of us.
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» ACLU faults 'suspicious activity' reporting by law enforcement - Reuters
19/09/13 22:12 from fbi aclu report - Google News
ACLU faults 'suspicious activity' reporting by law enforcementReuters"What's driving the suspicion is not the photography, but bias against the person taking the picture, which generates the report," said ACLU senio...
» ACLU Posts Fed-Collected 'Suspicious' Activity Reports Online - NPR
19/09/13 11:42 from fbi aclu report - Google News
NPRACLU Posts Fed-Collected 'Suspicious' Activity Reports OnlineNPRACLU Posts Fed-Collected 'Suspicious' Activity Reports Online. by Martin Kaste. September 19, 2013 3:59 AM ... Once, two FBI agents showed up at his door,...
» ACLU to New FBI Chief Jim Comey: Welcome, Now Fix This ...
18/09/13 17:00 from fbi aclu report - Google Blog Search
» ACLU: James Comey, New FBI Director, Must End 'Unchecked Abuse Of Authority' - Huffington Post
16/09/13 21:02 from fbi aclu report - Google News
ACLU: James Comey, New FBI Director, Must End 'Unchecked Abuse Of Authority'Huffington PostThe ACLU report cited those programs, as well as the use of national security letters to demand private information without a warrant, spy...
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James B. Comey is sworn in as FBI Director by Attorney General Eric Holder on September 4, 2013; Chuck Rosenberg, senior counselor to Director Comey, holds the Bible. | Download high resolution image |
James B. Comey was sworn in today as Director of the FBI during a ceremony at the Department of Justice. Comey becomes the seventh FBI Director in the Bureau’s modern era. Attorney General Eric Holder administered the oath of office at 4:32 p.m.
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“I, James B. Comey, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.” |
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» House Committee Votes To Define 'Journalists' and Delay Access to Certain ... - Michigan Capitol Confidential
13/09/13 06:36 from house judiciary committee - Google News
House Committee Votes To Define 'Journalists' and Delay Access to Certain ...Michigan Capitol ConfidentialThe House Judiciary Committee on Thursday approved House Bill 4770, which among other things, attempts to define what a jou...
» FBI's Comey focused on violent home-grown extremists, global spread of terrorism - Washington Post
19/09/13 20:52 from james b. comey - Google News
Washington PostFBI's Comey focused on violent home-grown extremists, global spread of terrorismWashington PostThe new FBI director, James B. Comey, said Thursday that terrorism has become his biggest concern as he settles into the jo...
Comey also responded to a recent report by the American Civil Liberties Uniontitled “Unleashed and Unaccountable: The FBI’s Unchecked Abuse of Authority.” The report called on the Obama administration and Congress to rein in the increasing power of the FBI, calling the agency “a secret domestic intelligence agency,” especially in light of the massive government surveillance programs revealed by a former contractor for the National Security Agency, Edward Snowden.
“I saw that they said we were a domestic intelligence agency and my response was, ‘Okay, good,’ ” said Comey, who was relaxed and had shed his jacket in a roundtable gathering with 18 reporters. “I think that’s one of my responsibilities, to continue [former FBI director] Bob Mueller’s work to transform the bureau into an intelligence agency.”
Robert S. Mueller III became FBI director shortly before the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and oversaw the transformation of an FBI focused on fighting crime to one with terrorism as its first priority.
Comey said he recently encountered ACLU Executive Director Anthony D. Romero at a farewell ceremony for Mueller and encouraged him to continue being a watchdog.
“I said to Tony Romero . . . ‘Look, keep banging on us. I may not agree with you, but there’s always a risk as a leader you’ll fall in love with the sound of your own voice. So, it’s good to have that push from the outside,’ ” said Comey, who added that he had not reviewed the ACLU report. “But I’m going to read it with an open mind.”
When he spoke about the budget cuts the FBI is facing because of sequestration, Comey became visibly frustrated.
» New FBI Director James Comey Expects Bureau's Post-9/11 Transformation To ... - Huffington Post
19/09/13 17:52 from fbi - Google News
New FBI Director James Comey Expects Bureau's Post-9/11 Transformation To ...Huffington PostWASHINGTON -- James Comey has a "hard time imagining" the Federal Bureau of Investigation will shift any resources away from counte...
» FBI Plans to Close Offices for 10 Days to Cut Costs - New York Times
12/09/13 22:55 from james b. comey - Google News
New York TimesFBI Plans to Close Offices for 10 Days to Cut CostsNew York TimesSince taking his post a week ago, the new F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, has been vocal about how the spending cuts known as sequestration will affect the b...
» A New FBI Director Prepares to Take the Reins - New York Times
22/08/13 21:30 from james b. comey - Google News
New York Daily NewsA New FBI Director Prepares to Take the ReinsNew York TimesBy SARAH WHEATON and MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT. Published: August 22, 2013. WASHINGTON — James B. Comey will begin shadowing the F.B.I. director, Robert S. Mueller II...
» The Final Showdown? Why the Coming Budget Crisis May Be the Worst - TIME
18/09/13 14:39 from james b. comey - Google News
The Final Showdown? Why the Coming Budget Crisis May Be the WorstTIMEIn early September the post of Director of the FBI took James Comey. His predecessor Robert Mueller said the spending cuts will be one of the most complex problems, wit...
» FBI hinting at 10-day shutdown if sequester continues - Washington Post (blog)
18/09/13 10:10 from fbi - Google News
FBI hinting at 10-day shutdown if sequester continuesWashington Post (blog)eye-opener-logo6 FBI officials are hinting that the agency might furlough employees for more than 10 weekdays and shut down its offices on those dates if the gove...
» FBI — President Nominates New FBI Director
21/06/13 03:00 from james b. comey - Google Blog Search
» Lawfare › POTUS Plans to Nominate James B. Comey as Next FBI ...
29/05/13 19:29 from james b. comey - Google Blog Search
» House Judiciary Committee Rails Against Domestic Spying ...
18/07/13 15:00 from house judiciary committee - Google Blog Search
» ACLU urges more control, accountability for the FBI - UPI.com
17/09/13 16:24 from fbi aclu report - Google News
ACLU urges more control, accountability for the FBIUPI.com11, 2001, the FBI has morphed into a domestic surveillance agency with little accountability, a report said. The American Civil Liberties Union Tuesday released "Unleashed an...
» ACLU Report Documents FBI Abuse Since 9/11 - YubaNet
17/09/13 14:27 from fbi aclu report - Google Blog Search
» ACLU calls on Obama, Congress to rein in power of the FBI ...
17/09/13 13:40 from fbi aclu report - Google Blog Search
» 'Unleashed and unaccountable' - ACLU condemns FBI in new report ...
17/09/13 13:08 from fbi aclu report - Google Blog Search
» ACLU Report Documents FBI Abuse Since 9/11 - American Civil Liberties Union News and Information
17/09/13 10:09 from fbi aclu report - Google News
Washington PostACLU Report Documents FBI Abuse Since 9/11American Civil Liberties Union News and InformationWASHINGTON - Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has been granted by Congress ...
» Amid NSA Scandal, ACLU Report Turns Spotlight Back To FBI's 'Unchecked ... - Forbes
17/09/13 08:03 from fbi - Google News
Amid NSA Scandal, ACLU Report Turns Spotlight Back To FBI's 'Unchecked ...ForbesAs Edward Snowden's leaks have spilled the NSA's guts over the last three months, it's become the punching bag of choice for civil libert...
» The ACLU wants the FBI scope and power's cut back ...
16/09/13 22:50 from fbi aclu report - Google Blog Search
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» FBI — President Nominates New FBI Director
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Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/is-the-fbis-domestic-spying-out-of-control-20130919#ixzz2fR1QYk7l
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Mike Nova comments:
Who really is "Mike German"? Are things much more complex than they appear to be at a first glance? I reproduced his book review, an article Manufacturing Terrorists, because it appears to be blackened out on its original page,
and it is good to have it at hand as an additional piece of information, just in case if it gets lost.
The content of it, though, should be taken with a certain grain of salt, methinks.
See, for example, this:
» NSA scandal: time has come for FBI - The Voice of Russia
20/09/13 02:44 from fbi aclu report - Google News
Washington PostNSA scandal: time has come for FBIThe Voice of RussiaIn its 63-page report "Unleashed and Unaccountable: The FBI's Unchecked Abuse of Authority," the ACLU is putting new pressure on the FBI, calling on the US...
This piece of writing appears to be objective on a surface, but you can feel its barely concealed glee. A lot of questions and issues do arise. Is there any single and the same pattern or design which links this event with the previous ones? Should we not look into this possible connection(s)? One thing does not exclude the other. The real issues raised by the ACLU report should not obscure its use by hostile forces and their possible, at this time hypothetical role in production or some type of a collaboration in preparation of this report. It makes sense to look into this very carefully.
See also my previous posts:
Рыбкин, Иван Петрович - 002, aka Edward Snowden! ...
Operation "Skyfall" - a message from "The Blue Sepia Lady"
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German sat down with Reason.tv to discuss the top threats to civil liberties after 9/11. They range from new interpretations of the Fourth Amendment to law enforcement's fascination with vast empires of data to "fusion centers" that pool sources among intelligence agencies and local police.
About 6.30 minutes.
Produced by Paul Detrick. Shot by Joshua Swain. Edited by Detrick and Tracy Oppenheimer.
See also: The FBI Secrets [FULL VIDEO] - YouTube
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Manufacturing Terrorists
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to go bananas - Thesaurus
to go bonkers -
arrogant - GS
incompetent - GS
grossly incompetent (no records) - GS
inept - GS (many instances, very unfortunately)
what goes around comes around - W
reeking to high heaven - GS
no finesse - GS
a lot of unneeded bells and whistles - GS
a state within a state - GS - a real danger!
Cointelpro - GS
edgar hoover's fbi legacy - GS
Post Traumatic (9.11) Stress Disorder, both individual, and,
by extension, institutional-cultural - GS
The worst is over now and we can breathe again(?) - GS
Catharsis - GS
Thank you, ACLU! - GS
Recuperation - GS and Restoration - M-WD
The new leader - the new style - GS
I said my piece - GS
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