FBI admits breaking its own internet spying rules
Found on The Inquirer on Saturday, 08 March 2008
For the fourth year running, FBI director Robert Mueller said the agency reguilarly goes beyond its legal limits to collect information on people's emails and web wibbling.
In an interesting twist, Mueller tried to claim that this wasn't really the FBI's fault. The telcoms companies the snoops roped in on the cunning plan kept providing "too much information", he said.
Senate Judiciary chairman Patrick Leahy has a right moan about the state of affairs: "There has to be a better chain of command for this. You cannot just have an FBI agent who decides he'd like to obtain Americans' records, bank records or anything else and do it just because they want to."
I can totally understand that it's not their fault. Just a week ago there was this guy who drove exactly at the current speed limit. I had to hit his bumper and force him off the street to enjoy full speed while ignoring the limits. After all, rules are made to be broken.