FBI overstepped terror link probes after 9/11 - Yahoo! News
Another Bush era accusation that is proved. And as usual no Bush official will get jail time for this.
I'm all for sending a few Bu****es to jail but the article makes absolutely no mention about who exatcly gave the FBI the go-ahead to overstep its boundaries. For all we know it was a high ranking official within the FBI who did it knowing the legal implications it would bring. It's not unheard of. They did it with Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. The FBI is not known for being a politically driven organization anyways. They do however have a history of independently overstepping their boundaries to gather intelligence.
But one has to ask the following question. Why did the FBI not do this before 9/11 then? Only reasonable answers are.. 1. they saw an opportunity 2. Someone in the Bush administration ordered it.
Why did the FBI not do this before 9/11 then?
After Prohibition's repeal, Congress passed the 1934 Communications Act, which outlawed non-consensual phone tapping, but allowed bugging.[15] In another Supreme Court case, the court ruled in 1939 that due to the 1934 law, evidence the FBI obtained by phone tapping was inadmissible in court.[15] A 1967 Supreme Court decision overturned the 1927 case allowing bugging, after which Congress passed the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act, allowing public authorities to tap telephones during investigations, as long as they obtain a warrant beforehand.[15]
J. Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI for almost 50 years, was given free reign to pursue civil rights activists based on his suspicion that communists were infiltrating civil rights organizations to overthrow the government. Hoover sent informants to church meetings, intercepted mail and phone calls, engineered break-ins, and planted news stories to defame civil rights leaders. COINTELPRO (Counter Intelligence Programs) was also instituted against the Communist Party, Socialist Workers Party, white supremacists, black nationalists, and the New Left. Although the civil rights movement ultimately succeeded, many lives were harmed in the process.
COINTELPRO (an acronym for Counter Intelligence Program) was a series of covert, and often illegal, projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at investigating and disrupting dissident political organizations within the United States. The FBI used covert operations from its inception; however, formal COINTELPRO operations took place between 1956 and 1971.[2] The FBI's stated motivation at the time was "protecting national security, preventing violence, and maintaining the existing social and political order."[3]
Or maybe, just maybe, something about 9/11 convinced some people in the FBI that they should be a bit more rigorous.
I know that sounds crazy, but it's a possibility.
Yea sure.. but why did that not happen after Oklahoma? After all that was directly targeting the government. Or was 9/11 maybe just that excuse needed under a right wing government to go after "leftist" organisations?
Yea sure.. but why did that not happen after Oklahoma? After all that was directly targeting the government. Or was 9/11 maybe just that excuse needed under a right wing government to go after "leftist" organisations?
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