FBI: You’ll get mad if we tell you.

Posted on May 13, 2011 by alan

The ACLU is suing the US government to stop the unconstitutional FISA Amendments Act and turned up this gem in a FOIA document dump.

Two weeks ago, as part of our FOIA lawsuit over those documents, the government gave us several declarations attempting to justify the redaction of the documents. We’ve been combing through the documents and recently came across this unexpectedly honest explanation from the FBI of why the government doesn’t want us to know which “electronic communication service providers” participate in its dragnet surveillance program. On page 32:

Isn’t that special? The FBI knows it’s wrong and that the American people won’t like it. Only instead of NOT DOING IT, they hide it from you.

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4 Responses to FBI: You’ll get mad if we tell you.

  1. Bubblehead Les says:
    May 13, 2011 at 18:05

    So they refused to reveal the names of the companies to save them from their customers bolting and suing? Wonder how many other Tech Companies are do the same thing right now? Google, Facebook, Twitter, Apple and any one else who was eating with the Anointed One last week when he went to Silicon Valley, I’d hazard a guess.

  2. DirtCrashr says:
    May 13, 2011 at 20:35

    You can boycott or change service providers but you can’t boycott the FBI…

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  4. Speakertweaker says:
    May 16, 2011 at 11:21

    The FBI knows it’s wrong and that the American people won’t like it. Only instead of NOT DOING IT, they hide it from you.

    When I did that as a kid, I got my ass whipped for lying. Apparently, I’m an underachiever. I could have persevered into adulthood and gotten a job with the FBI where it’s called ‘protecting.’

    tweaker

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