By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com The FBI has not been getting the response it is used to. The Washington Post reports that, increasingly, many communications companies have not been disclosing the kind of information previously offered from FBI requests. Investigators have routinely used national security letters to get information about who sent and received e-mails and…
By CHARLIE SAVAGE New York Times WASHINGTON — Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation have been more likely to be hunting for potential threats to national security than for ordinary criminals in recent years, but much of the time found neither, according to newly disclosed internal information. Data from a recent two-year period showed…
It never ceases to amaze how many things still slip through the cracks in the post-9/11 era. Things like this obviously shouldn’t slip through the cracks. As Ricky Ricardo would say, the government has some “splainin to do”. By MATTHEW L. WALD New York Times WASHINGTON — At least six men suspected or convicted of…
