FBI probes went beyond targeted suspects: newspaper (Reuters)

[News Manager]

Reuters - FBI investigations using telecommunications companies' records of terrorism suspects have gone farther than previously acknowledged, including information on phone call and e-mail patterns of the suspects' associates, The New York Times reported in Sunday editions.

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[A Can of Man]

This is normal.

 

[mmarsh]

Its depends.

The question with this sort of thing is what kind of oversight the FBI is under.

Do we all remember J Edgar Hoover? This guy was living proof about living in a police state and what happens when there is no FBI oversight. The man had tabs on just about everybody, and thats not good at all.