FBI 'Fabricated Terror Emergencies to Get Phone Records'

Written By Chris McGreal
January 21st, 2010

The US justice department is preparing a report which concludes that the FBI repeatedly broke the law by invoking terrorism emergencies that did not exist to obtain more than 2,000 telephone call records over four years from 2002, including those of journalists on US newspapers, according to emails obtained by the Washington Post. The bureau also issued authorisations for the seizure of records after the fact, in order to justify unwarranted seizures.

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