Big Brother is Incompetent
- For some strange reason all of this unconstitutional spying did not prevent 9-11, the Fort Hood massacre, the Boston Bombing or the Pamela Geller Cartoon attack.
- There are two possible explanations: #1) The government is run by incompetent idiots or #2) Terrorists are not the real target of government spying. Pick one.
(Washington Times) - FBI agents can’t point to any major terrorism cases they’ve cracked thanks to the key snooping powers in the Patriot Act, the Justice Department’s inspector general said in a report Thursday that could complicate efforts to keep key parts of the law operating.
Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz said that between 2004 and 2009, the FBI tripled its use of bulk collection under Section 215 of the Patriot Act, which allows government agents to compel businesses to turn over records and documents, and increasingly scooped up records of Americans who had no ties to official terrorism investigations.
The new report adds ammunition to those opponents, with the inspector general concluding that no major cases have been broken by use of the Patriot Act’s records-snooping provisions.
“The agents we interviewed did not identify any major case developments that resulted from use of the records obtained in response to Section 215 orders,” the inspector general concluded — though he said agents did view the material they gathered as “valuable” in developing other leads or corroborating information.
Increasingly, that meant scooping up information on those who were not targets of a terrorism investigation.
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