The FBI's Secret Spying Is Unnerving
The Public
June 16. 2011
Barack Obama has allowed the FBI free reign in conduct
that violates the U.S. Constitution
Privacy advocates are up in arms over the FBI's newly announced
investigative rules, as documented in their revised "Domestic
Investigations and Operations Guide." The FBI has undertaken an
invasive initiative, in an extraordinary power grab that openly defies the
U.S. constitution. FBI headquarters has stated, they have granted agents the ability to
summarily and secretly investigate whomever they feel like, if the target
attracts their attention. That is the language being used. Therefore, to
clarify, one does not have to commit a crime to be invasively investigated.
There need be no evidence or probable cause. One simply has to attract the
FBI's attention with lawful or unlawful behavior.
FBI Director Robert S. Mueller
One of the new categories that have been added to the FBI's operations
manual, is the classification "prominent bloggers" - a term the
Judiciary Report used on this website, prior to the agency's announcement
(May 19, 2011's Obama's
Relationship With Google Under Fire Over Blocking Free Speech And Free
Press and in the 2009 Aisha v. FBI
lawsuit in paragraph 9). The FBI has deemed "prominent bloggers" will be included
as members of the media, with alleged protections. As the Judiciary Report
and other sites see it, the FBI has illegally done away with the Fourth
Amendment. Therefore, what protections can there be in the face of such
lawlessness and hypocrisy.
Barack Obama and Robert S. Mueller
The Judiciary Report has broken a number of scandals regarding the FBI
that were later proven 100% true. The site knows exactly how the FBI
operates and is not impressed with the agency's disregard for domestic and
international law. In light of this fact, the site can attest, the FBI's latest legal push
is a farce, as they have been doing this form of illegal spying for
sometime and are simply trying to make it legal now, by pretending it is
something new they've just decided upon.
Department of Justice's Attorney General, Eric Holder
The FBI's spying still runs deeper than they are admitting to be public,
in ways the American people will not be happy with, as it deals with
secretly spying on people in their very homes. There can be no legal or
moral justification for doing such a thing and it shows a great lack of
character that they have been secretly doing this to certain targets of
their investigations. It can only be classified as voyeurism and it is
perverse.
As seen throughout the term of current FBI Director, Robert S. Mueller,
the agency is destroying the populace's privacy. Mueller has returned the
agency to the clandestine and corrupt days of J. Edgar Hoover, where
extraordinary privacy abuses occurred that victimized many people, in ways
world history never forgot. This time it is going to bring the agency down,
as they've already gone too far in deeds they have secretly engaged in,
that when made public will cause a worldwide uproar.
STORY SOURCE
FBI Agents Get More Freedom; Americans Get Less
Tuesday, 14 June 2011 12:45 - The Federal Bureau of Investigation is
issuing a new edition of its manual, the Domestic Investigations and
Operations Guide, the New York Times reports. The 2011 edition, the paper
says, gives “significant new powers” to FBI agents, allowing them “to
scrutinize the lives of people who have attracted their attention.” Read
that again: “... people who have attracted their attention.”
Not just those suspected of actual crimes, but anyone an FBI agent feels
like investigating, is now fair game under the agency’s official
guidelines. As a matter of fact, FBI general counsel Valerie Caproni (left)
“rejected arguments that the FBI should focus only on investigations that
begin with a firm reason for suspecting wrongdoing,” according to the
Times. In other words, Caproni dismissed the Fourth Amendment, which
requires the government to obtain a warrant based on probable cause before
searching a person’s body, house, or other possessions....
Second, and more ominously, only certain members of the news media and
the academic community are singled out for kid-glove treatment.
“Prominent bloggers would count,” the Times avers, “but not people
who have low-profile blogs.” Prominent bloggers, of course, tend to be
affiliated with the mainstream media, who are nothing if not friends of the
government. Furthermore, they would have the ability to draw attention to
an FBI investigation of themselves that they knew to be politically
motivated.
Low-profile bloggers, on the other hand, have no such friends in
Washington, would largely be ignored if they complained of being
investigated, and — perhaps most importantly — don’t have the
wherewithal to hire high-powered attorneys to defend them against unethical
investigations. Likewise, scholars who work for U.S.-based institutions are
covered, while foreigners, whose plight in the case of an unwarranted FBI
investigation would get scant attention in the U.S. news media and even
less sympathy from most Americans, can be investigated with little
oversight...
http://www.thenewamerican.com