I am absolutely speechless from reading this lame excuse of an article that there was a technical glitch that gave the FBI more email than was required. For whoever planted this shit, do they really think we are supposed to chew this up and swallow it, just roll our eyes and go on???
A technical glitch gave the F.B.I. access to the e-mail messages from an entire computer network — perhaps hundreds of accounts or more — instead of simply the lone e-mail address that was approved by a secret intelligence court as part of a national security investigation, according to an internal report of the 2006 episode.
F.B.I. officials blamed an “apparent miscommunication” with the unnamed Internet provider, which mistakenly turned over all the e-mail from a small e-mail domain for which it served as host. The records were ultimately destroyed, officials said.
Bureau officials noticed a “surge” in the e-mail activity they were monitoring and realized that the provider had mistakenly set its filtering equipment to trap far more data than a judge had actually authorized.
No, people. The FBI is sunk in a quagmire of shit, after being found time and time again on the WRONG side of the law.
A report in 2006 by the Justice Department inspector general found more than 100 violations of federal wiretap law in the two prior years by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, many of them considered technical and inadvertent.
Bureau officials said they did not have updated public figures but were preparing them as part of a wider-ranging review by the inspector general into misuses of the bureau’s authority to use so-called national security letters in gathering phone records and financial documents in intelligence investigations.
This is found while litigating abuses by the FBI in wiretapping. It’s really convenient for the FBI to say, “well, hey, they set the filters, they made the mistake, and we went through all those people’s emails before we threw them in the bin.” But, sorry, dudes, I can’t buy it anymore. It’s frosty and you’ve already fleeced me.
