Ars Outs Justice Department Malfeasance

by on September 13, 2007 · 0 comments

Here’s a good Arsticle on the FBI’s use of “improper” letters – er, illegal demands – to get information from telecommunications providers. They’ve got a cub reporter over there at Ars Technica who seems destined to really make some waves.

Winner line: “. . . White House Homeland Security Advisor Frances Fragos Townsend responded to questions about the latest revelations by pointing to the creation of a ‘compliance unit’ in the FBI. We thought the Constitution already provided for a ‘compliance unit’: the judicial branch.”

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About Jim Harper

Jim Harper is the Director of Information Policy Studies at The Cato Institute, the Editor of Web-based privacy think-tank Privacilla.org, and the Webmaster of WashingtonWatch.com. A Poli Sci major at the University of California at Santa Barbara, Jim served as Editor-in-Chief of the Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly in his final year at Hastings College of the Law. Prior to becoming a policy analyst and advocate, Jim served as counsel to committees in both the U.S. House and Senate. He avoids genuine life experience by watching lots and lots of reality TV.

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