{"id":3976,"date":"2011-01-31T08:27:19","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T16:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3976"},"modified":"2011-01-31T08:27:19","modified_gmt":"2011-01-31T16:27:19","slug":"eff-big-brother-is-watching-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/31\/eff-big-brother-is-watching-you\/","title":{"rendered":"EFF: Big Brother Is Watching You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">A recent report from the Electronic Frontier Foundation has revealed that the FBI committed crime after crime, perhaps invading even your privacy under GW Bush and the Republican Regime.&#160; While this report does not cover Obama\u2019s term in office, Obama must repudiate the use of illegal eavesdropping to spy on Americans.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0in; font-family: \" align=\"left\"><font face=\"Calibri\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; float: right\" title=\"31eff\" alt=\"31eff\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/31eff.jpg\" width=\"340\" height=\"499\" \/>EFF has uncovered widespread violations stemming from FBI intelligence investigations from 2001 &#8211; 2008. In a <\/font><\/font><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><a style=\"text-align: left\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/pages\/patterns-misconduct-fbi-intelligence-violations\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-align: left\"><font color=\"#0066cc\" face=\"Calibri\"><strong>report released today<\/strong><\/font><\/span><\/a><\/font><font face=\"Calibri\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">, EFF documents alarming trends in the Bureau&#8217;s intelligence investigation practices, suggesting that FBI intelligence investigations have compromised the civil liberties of American citizens far more frequently, and to a greater extent, than was previously assumed. <\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0in; font-family: \" align=\"left\"><font face=\"Calibri\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Using documents obtained through <\/font><\/font><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><a style=\"text-align: left\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/foia\/intelligence-agencies-misconduct\" target=\"_blank\"><font color=\"#0066cc\" face=\"Calibri\">EFF&#8217;s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) litigation<\/font><\/a><\/font><font face=\"Calibri\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">, the report finds:<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<ul style=\"line-height: normal; margin-top: 0in; padding-left: 0px; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.75in\" type=\"disc\">\n<li style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle\"><span style=\"font-family: \"><font face=\"Calibri\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em>Evidence of delays of 2.5 years, on average, between the occurrence of a violation and its eventual reporting to the Intelligence Oversight Board <\/em><\/font><\/font><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle\"><span style=\"font-family: \"><font face=\"Calibri\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em>Reports of serious misconduct by FBI agents including lying in declarations to courts, using improper evidence to obtain grand jury subpoenas, and accessing password-protected files without a warrant<\/em><\/font><\/font><\/span> <\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle\"><span style=\"font-family: \"><font face=\"Calibri\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em>Indications that the FBI may have committed upwards of 40,000 possible intelligence violations in the 9 years since 9\/11<\/em><\/font><\/font><\/span> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0in; font-family: \" align=\"left\"><font face=\"Calibri\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">EFF&#8217;s report stems from analysis of nearly 2,500 pages of FBI documents, consisting of reports of FBI intelligence violations made to the <\/font><\/font><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><a style=\"text-align: left\" href=\"https:\/\/secure.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/wiki\/President%27s_Intelligence_Advisory_Board#Intelligence_Oversight_Board\" target=\"_blank\"><font color=\"#0066cc\" face=\"Calibri\">Intelligence Oversight Board<\/font><\/a><\/font><font face=\"Calibri\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\"> &#8211; an independent, civilian intelligence-monitoring board that reports to the President on the legality of foreign and domestic intelligence operations\u2026<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0in; font-family: \" align=\"left\"><font face=\"Calibri\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">&#8230;A pdf copy of the report can be downloaded <\/font><\/font><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><a style=\"text-align: left\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/files\/EFF%20IOB%20Report_Final%20Version.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><font color=\"#0066cc\" face=\"Calibri\">here<\/font><\/a><\/font><font face=\"Calibri\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2026 [<em>emphasis original<\/em>]<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/headline\/2011\/01\/31-0\" target=\"_blank\">Common Dreams<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Sadly, I have no evidence that Obama has changed the criminal practices of his predecessor.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent report from the Electronic Frontier Foundation has revealed that the FBI committed crime after crime, perhaps invading even your privacy under GW Bush and the Republican Regime.&#160; While this report does not cover Obama\u2019s term in office, Obama must repudiate the use of illegal eavesdropping to spy on Americans. 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