{"id":8391,"date":"2015-05-23T08:30:42","date_gmt":"2015-05-23T13:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=8391"},"modified":"2015-05-23T08:30:42","modified_gmt":"2015-05-23T13:30:42","slug":"fbi-confirms-no-major-terrorism-cases-cracked-via-unconstitutional-patriot-act-phone-spying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=8391","title":{"rendered":"FBI Confirms No Major Terrorism Cases Cracked via Unconstitutional Patriot Act Phone Spying"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"post-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/libertyblitzkrieg.com\/2015\/05\/22\/fbi-confirms-no-major-terrorism-cases-cracked-via-unconstitutional-patriot-act-phone-spying\/\" target=\"_blank\">FBI Confirms No Major Terrorism Cases Cracked via Unconstitutional Patriot Act Phone Spying<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-24297 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/libertyblitzkrieg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Screen-Shot-2015-05-22-at-11.21.19-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-05-22 at 11.21.19 AM\" width=\"319\" height=\"249\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>FBI\u00a0agents can\u2019t point to any major terrorism cases they\u2019ve cracked thanks to the key snooping powers in the Patriot Act, the Justice Department\u2019s inspector general said in a report Thursday that could complicate efforts to keep key parts of the law operating.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Inspector General\u00a0Michael E. Horowitz\u00a0said that between 2004 and 2009, the\u00a0FBI\u00a0tripled 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,\u00a0and increasingly scooped up records of Americans who had no ties to official terrorism investigations.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2013 From the Washington Times article:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2015\/may\/21\/fbi-admits-patriot-act-snooping-powers-didnt-crack\/?page=1\">FBI Admits No Major Cases Cracked with Patriot Act Snooping Powers\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Back in 2013, as\u00a0debate about the\u00a0Snowden revelations was at its zenith, I published a post titled\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/libertyblitzkrieg.com\/2013\/10\/03\/nsa-chief-admits-only-one-or-perhaps-two-terror-plots-stopped-by-spy-program\/\">NSA Chief Admits \u201cOnly One or Perhaps Two\u201d Terror Plots Stopped by Spy Program<\/a><\/strong>. Here\u2019s an excerpt:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The\u00a0Obama administration\u2019s credibility on intelligence suffered another blow Wednesday as the chief of the\u00a0National Security Agency\u00a0admitted that officials put out numbers that vastly overstated the counterterrorism successes of the government\u2019s warrantless bulk collection of all Americans\u2019 phone records.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Pressed by the Democratic chairman of the Senate\u00a0Judiciary Committee\u00a0at an oversight hearing,\u00a0Gen. Keith B. Alexander\u00a0admitted that the number of terrorist plots foiled by the\u00a0NSA\u2019s huge database of every phone call made in or to America was only one or perhaps two \u2014 far smaller than the 54 originally claimed by the\u00a0administration.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FBI Confirms No Major Terrorism Cases Cracked via Unconstitutional Patriot Act Phone Spying &nbsp; FBI\u00a0agents can\u2019t point to any major terrorism cases they\u2019ve cracked thanks to the key snooping powers in the Patriot Act, the Justice Department\u2019s inspector general said in a report Thursday that could complicate efforts to keep key parts of the law [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[249,301,551,577,793,3672,5380],"class_list":["post-8391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-edward-snowden","tag-fbi","tag-national-security-agency","tag-nsa","tag-terrorism","tag-us-justice-department","tag-us-patriot-act"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8392,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8391\/revisions\/8392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}