Obama assertion: FBI can get phone records without oversight

[Maestro]

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/02/11/108562/obama-assertion-fbi-can-get-phone.html

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration's Justice Department has asserted that the FBI can obtain telephone records of international calls made from the U.S. without any formal legal process or court oversight, according to a document obtained by McClatchy.

That assertion was revealed — perhaps inadvertently — by the department in its response to a McClatchy request for a copy of a secret Justice Department memo.

I don't usually start threads, but a quote came to mind when I saw this:

"The only power the government will not abuse is that which it is not given."

 

[No Limit]

I just love how republicans have this new found love for privacy now that it is the black guy spying on them.