Washington Times - FBI
agents can’t point to any major terrorism cases they’ve cracked thanks
to the key snooping powers in the Patriot Act, the Justice Department’s
inspector general said in a report Thursday that could complicate
efforts to keep key parts of the law operating.
Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz said that between 2004 and 2009, the FBI
tripled its use of bulk collection under Section 215 of the Patriot
Act, which allows government agents to compel businesses to turn over
records and documents, and increasingly scooped up records of Americans
who had no ties to official terrorism investigations.
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