Robert Mueller was confirmed to a ten-year term as Director of the FBI and took over the position on September 4th, 2001. Obviously, he should not be confirmed for a second decade-long term, but he really should be shit-canned right now. Not tomorrow. Right now.
The FBI illegally collected more than 2,000 U.S. telephone call records between 2002 and 2006 by invoking terrorism emergencies that did not exist or simply persuading phone companies to provide records, according to internal bureau memos and interviews. FBI officials issued approvals after the fact to justify their actions.
E-mails obtained by The Washington Post detail how counterterrorism officials inside FBI headquarters did not follow their own procedures that were put in place to protect civil liberties. The stream of urgent requests for phone records also overwhelmed the FBI communications analysis unit with work that ultimately was not connected to imminent threats.
A Justice Department inspector general’s report due out this month is expected to conclude that the FBI frequently violated the law with its emergency requests, bureau officials confirmed.
Obama should throw Mueller out on his ass, and with extreme prejudice. Invoking terrorism threats that did not exist? Think about it. What are we? Living in the movie Brazil?
Sim, vivemos em Brasil, Boo.
Se nós já queremos sair, devemos lutar terror com terror, não?
Why are we still talking about tinkering around the edges of Healthcare. We’re all waking up to realize that we’ve been sold as debt slaves (shall we make ‘citizenship’ contingent on paying your share off?), we are financing 2 and a half wars, almost 4, our citizenry shoves it’s head up it’s own ass deeper every day and the rest of the world is getting real tired of pretending that they like us, Obama or not.
His election bought us a foreign policy plenary indulgence, but we haven’t changed policy and I’m pretty sure everyone gets that now. His election provided a wonderful opportunity for the Left to be disappointed, again, while the same permagov BS goes on and on..
“Faça ou não faça, não há nenhuma tentativa.”
OT,
What`s with the murdered prisoners at the secret (Gitmo inside Gitmo) called “Camp No”.
.
The key to the discovery of the murder of the three men — 37-year old Salah Ahmed al-Salami, a Yemeni, 30-year old Mani Shaman al-Utaybi, a Saudi, and 22-year old Yasser Talal al-Zahrani, a Saudi who was just 17 when he was captured — is Army Staff Sgt. Joe Hickman, a former Marine who reenlisted in the Army National Guard after the 9/11 attacks, and was deployed to Guantánamo in March 2006, with his friend, Specialist Tony Davila.
… all three were in “Camp No” by 8 pm. At 11.30, the van returned, apparently dropping something off at the clinic, and within half an hour the whole prison “lit up.” As Horton explains:
“Hickman headed to the clinic, which appeared to be the center of activity, to learn the reason for the commotion. He asked a distraught medical corpsman what had happened. She said three dead prisoners had been delivered to the clinic. Hickman recalled her saying that they had died because they had rags stuffed down their throats, and that one of them was severely bruised. Davila told me he spoke to Navy guards who said the men had died as the result of having rags stuffed down their throats.”
Perhaps linked to Panetta’s disclosure …
Report: CIA hired Blackwater (Xe) contractors for secret hit squad
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."Here’s the link to that article in Harper’s Magazine.
http://www.chris-floyd.com/component/content/article/1-latest-news/1905-dark-as-a-dungeon-a-brutal-s
ystem-stripped-bare.html
I think it should be required reading for every American citizen while there is still time to defend our democracy. If the Obama administration refuses to investigate this moral atrocity, it becomes an accessory to the criminal actions of the GW Bush administration. Perhaps, that’s why the current politicos are so reluctant to investigate the sins of the former politicos. Sort of like misery likes company kind of thing.
Sort like that NCIS show on TV, what with murders and all. Except that they cover up instead of investigate.
Up to the level of Assistant Director…That is transparent plausible deniability.
Don’t just fire Mueller. Fire him and three levels down for every manager involved in this. Civil service does permit firing for cause. And I think there is a big, huge cause here. No law enforcement agency can be trusted if they routinely violate the law. And we have a big problem with that from Joe Arpaio to Robert Mueller.
Then find a director who will root out the J. Edgar Hooverism at the FBI. And air the dirty laundry.
Exactly right.
this is america. i’ve got a better chance of sprouting wings and flying to work like a bumble-bee than Mueller has of getting fired.
dollar says tis gets whitewashed, buried, and mueller keeps his job. i mean, come on: it’s only a violation of our civil liberties, which at this point is establishment policy.
What, no medal of freedom for Mueller?
How stable the bureaucracy is from administration to administration is a measuring stick to how much or little power the executive branch actually has in controlling the government.
The FBI director is stable by statute. They get 10 year terms. Yes, they can be fired, but it’s not supposed to be a political office.
I love the choice of the word ‘persuade’. As in how much luck I’ve had persuading my carrier to change my address over the y e a r s! Give me a break.
The FBI should have been shut down, along with the rest of the “intelligence community”, decades ago. None have ever justified their existence, their budgets, or their impunity. If there was ever a time to accomplish that it is long past, of course, thanks to the Permanent Terror that is now securely entrenched worldwide.
I TOTALLY disagree.
The FBI has done a great deal of excellent work on a number of fronts. Most of the people who work for it are wonderful, honest, hardworking people.
Like any big org, the ones willing to cut corners to get ahead often get promoted over the more honest ones. But please don’t take out the whole agency because of a few bad apples. And they are a few, however powerful.
You have no idea how many criminal cases the FBI solves, how many people they protect. I’m not a fan of Hoover or most of the leaders since. But I’m a big fan of the people in their ranks.
I think they’re way overrated, but that’s not the point.
If the agency is full of good and capable underlings being stifled by entrenched courtiers, shutting them down and reorganizing from scratch may be the only way to free those good workers to do what they want to do.
Just firing one director periodically is not going to make any inroads on institutional rot.