So Much For Oversight: FBI Creates Its Own Surveillance Air Force, Congress Doesn't Notice | Crooks and Liars
6/09/15 4:23am
For the life of me, I can't understand why Americans are so docile about our ever-expanding surveillance state. These stories just infuriate me:
And many of the FBI’s ostensible overseers in Congress don’t know much more than the public, either. This is evident from letters that legislators have written in recent days. Senator Charles Grassley, chairman of the Judiciary Committee,demanded to be briefed no later than this week on “the scope, nature, and purpose of these operations… and what legal authorities, if any, are being relied upon in carrying out these operations.”
Senator Al Franken has posed ten questions of his own to the FBI.
Aerial Surveillance, air force, fbi
So Much For Oversight: FBI Creates Its Own Surveillance Air Force, Congress Doesn't Notice | Crooks and Liars
6/09/15 4:23am
For the life of me, I can't understand why Americans are so docile about our ever-expanding surveillance state. These stories just infuriate me:
And many of the FBI’s ostensible overseers in Congress don’t know much more than the public, either. This is evident from letters th
at legislators have written in recent days. Senator Charles Grassley, chairman of the Judiciary Committee,demanded to be briefed no later than this week on “the scope, nature, and purpose of these operations… and what legal authorities, if any, are being relied upon in carrying out these operations.”
Senator Al Franken has posed ten questions of his own to the FBI.
Aerial Surveillance, air force, fbi