FBI illegally collected phone records
Fox News
01/19/10
The FBI violated the law in collecting thousands of U.S. telephone records during the Bush administration, The Washington Post reported Monday. Citing internal memos and interviews, the Post said the FBI invoked nonexistent terrorism emergencies or persuaded phone companies to provide information as it illegally gathered more than 2,000 records between 2002 and 2006.
http://tinyurl.com/y8dfupz
US cloaks civil rights case files
Boston Globe
01/18/10
Nearly half a century after the height of the civil rights movement, hundreds of thousands of pages of government files about the volatile era remain shielded from the American public, buried in FBI field office cabinets, blocked by resistant bureaucracies, or available only with large sections blacked out, according to US officials and researchers. The situation has prompted a new push in Congress, led by Senator John F. Kerry of Massachusetts, to require that all records relating to the life and death of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. be located, reviewed, and released by a review board at the National Archives similar to those established for the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and for Nazi war criminals...
http://tinyurl.com/ya8fz2o
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bush+legacy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Luther
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=civil+rights+case
01/19/10
The FBI violated the law in collecting thousands of U.S. telephone records during the Bush administration, The Washington Post reported Monday. Citing internal memos and interviews, the Post said the FBI invoked nonexistent terrorism emergencies or persuaded phone companies to provide information as it illegally gathered more than 2,000 records between 2002 and 2006.
http://tinyurl.com/y8dfupz
US cloaks civil rights case files
Boston Globe
01/18/10
Nearly half a century after the height of the civil rights movement, hundreds of thousands of pages of government files about the volatile era remain shielded from the American public, buried in FBI field office cabinets, blocked by resistant bureaucracies, or available only with large sections blacked out, according to US officials and researchers. The situation has prompted a new push in Congress, led by Senator John F. Kerry of Massachusetts, to require that all records relating to the life and death of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. be located, reviewed, and released by a review board at the National Archives similar to those established for the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and for Nazi war criminals...
http://tinyurl.com/ya8fz2o
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bush+legacy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Luther
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=civil+rights+case
rudkla - 19. Jan, 09:16
