[Infowarrior] - New FBI Privacy Violations Confirmed

[Richard Forno]

New FBI Privacy Violations Confirmed

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080305/D8V7C6T06.html

Mar 5, 10:56 AM (ET)

By LARA JAKES JORDAN

WASHINGTON (AP) - FBI Director Robert Mueller says an upcoming Justice
Department report will show the bureau improperly used national security
letters to obtain personal data on Americans during terror and spy
investigations.

Mueller says the report focuses on national security letters issued only in
2006 - a year before the FBI enacted sweeping new reforms to prevent future
lapses.

Mueller's comments Wednesday morning in front of the Senate Judiciary
Committee came just days before the Justice Department's inspector general
is scheduled to release the follow-up to a similar audit in 2007.

Last year's report found that over a three-year period, the FBI had demanded
personal data on people from banks, telephone and Internet providers and
credit bureaus without official authorization and in non-emergency
circumstances.