https://www.aclu.org/national-security/fbi-audit-exposes-widespread-abuse-patriot-act-powers
WASHINGTON – A report released today by the Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) on the FBI’s use of National Security Letters (NSLs) reveals a systemic, widespread abuse of power. The FBI’s authority to issue NSLs was widely expanded by the USA Patriot Act and it has been increasingly used to collect private information on American citizens without court approval. Today’s audit follows a report released last year that found serious breaches of department regulations and multiple potential violations of the law.
And if a lie is defined as not telling the truth, then this would be another FBI lie.
http://articles.latimes.com/2005/sep/02/science/sci-bullet2
The FBI said Thursday that it had discontinued the use of bullet-lead matching, a forensic technique used for at least 25 years that had been heavily criticized as inaccurate and misleading.
The bureau suspended its use in 2004 after a report by the National Research Council found the technique could be "seriously misleading" and "objectionable."
They got the report in 2004, and waited another year, not informing the attorneys for the defendants that the test was in fact questionable, leaving people in prison, who were convicted using this questionable technique of lead matching, for more than a year. They finally admitted it when a FOI request basically cornered them, and then they ran out and admitted the truth in a press release.
What the hell, it was only another year of prison before people could challenge their convictions, besides they were probably guilty anyway.
Wired article on the FBI Lying with numbers.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/06/nsa-numbers/
Thanks to the Guardian’s scoop, we now know definitively just how misleading these numbers are. You see, while the feds are required to disclose the number of orders they apply for and receive (almost always the same number, by the way), they aren’t required to say how many people are targeted in each order. So a single order issued to Verizon Business Solutions in April covered metadata for every phone call made by every customer. That’s from one order out of what will probably be about 200 reported in next year’s numbers.
If they are a cop, Federal, State, County, or City, it doesn't matter to me. I wouldn't trust them if they said night was dark and day was light.
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