Crimes by Homeland Security agents stir alert
 
Resent-Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 20:06:37 -0600 (CST)


News Updates from Citizens For Legitimate Government 06 Mar 2008
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http://www.legitgov.org/#breaking_news Crimes by Homeland Security
agents stir alert 05 Mar 2008 Bribery. Drug trafficking. Migrant
smuggling. [GOPedophiles at Homeland Security arrested for molesting
children.] U.S. Customs and Border Protection is supposed to stop
these types of crimes. Instead, so many of its officers have been
charged with committing those crimes themselves that their boss in
Washington recently issued an alert about the ''disturbing events''
and the "increase in the number of employee arrests..." Other recent
South Florida cases... have involved officers and agents accepting
payoffs for migrant smuggling, drug trafficking, witness tampering,
embezzlement and rape.

National Dragnet Is a Click Away --Authorities to Gain Fast and
Expansive Access to Records 06 Mar 2008 Several thousand law
enforcement agencies are creating the foundation of a domestic
intelligence system through computer networks that analyze vast
amounts of police information to 'fight' crime and 'root out' terror
plots... Those network efforts will begin expanding further this
month, as some local and state agencies connect to a fledgling
Justice Department system called the National Data Exchange, or
N-DEx.

FBI: Report to confirm privacy violations 05 Mar 2008 The FBI
improperly used national security letters in 2006 to obtain personal
data on Americans during terror and spy investigations, Director
Robert Mueller said Wednesday. Mueller told the Senate Judiciary
Committee that the privacy breach by FBI agents and lawyers occurred
a year before the bureau enacted sweeping new reforms to prevent
future lapses.

FBI chief: Lack of legal shield won't halt telecom spy partnerships
05 Mar 2008 As Congress debates whether to wipe out lawsuits accusing
telephone companies of allegedly illegal wiretaps, the Bush
administration has argued such cooperation is key to keeping Americans
safe from terrorists.

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