 Image uploaded from a quicklink (Image by Unknown Owner) Details DMCA | In the 10 years since the Sept. 11th attacks, the FBI has expanded its powers, transforming into a massive domestic spying agency.
The FBI is claiming the authority to exercise more surveillance powers, which include undocumented database searches, lie detector tests, trash searches, surveillance squads, investigations of public officials, scholars and journalists and rules that would provide more freedom for agents and informants to not disclose participation in organizations that are targets of FBI surveillance. Here are five cases of FBI abuse that show the FBI deserves more scrutiny, not a free pass to continue fighting the so-called "war on terror." |
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