No court order needed

FBI, CIA, Pentagon use 'security letters' to gather personal data.

The fact that the CIA and the Pentagon are conducting their own domestic investigations does not bode well for this cause. It suggests that turf wars and empire building remain more important than collaboration.

For the military, this behavior fits all too well into the campaign of mission creep advanced by former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. For him it wasn't enough to have a military that fights the nation's wars. He wanted one that did ... Full Story »

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Topics: Domestic Spying
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Posted by: Posted by Kaizar Campwala - Jan 18, 2007 - 8:10 AM PST
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by Kaizar Campwala - Oct. 1, 2008

An important disclosure about government spying and information gathering many people are not aware of. the conclusion, that this is more about turf wars than collaboration between agencies, is not backed up by evidence, but chilling non-the-less.

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