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?