The news story about the thousands of illegal--as in felony--survelliance conducted by the FBI is being called 'inexcusable.' If you or I, conducted felony breaking and entering, wire taping, invasion of Privacy (1964 civil rights laws), and the list continues, we'd be hauled to jail, bond posted, and so on. Why have these agents not been arrested and subjected to the laws they are entrusted to uphold? I think it is so much worse if you a re in law enforcement and you violate that trust and the laws, and then to not have the same enforcers not arrest their own, makes me sick. It is not 'inexcusable' when it's a FELONY!!! Let's see them taste alittle of their own medicine. Put them in Jail---where they belong and then I'll know america has a Constitution that the Supreme Court upholds.
2007-03-20 04:53:36 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
ps. The FBI has a director who is the accountable party, not the President.
2007-03-20 05:37:01 · update #1
It's called the "good old boy" system where no matter what you do wrong, if you are with the government you are pretty safe. Multiple wrongs have been committed over the past several decades, yet very few have been prosecuted or convicted. I do believe that those who were prosecuted, for the most part, were actually used as scape goats for a much wider group of people.
You are right. If one of us "peons" did anything like this, we would be in prison immediately and, probably, prosecuted under the "Homeland Security" act.
2007-03-20 05:06:05 · answer #1 · answered by Nepetarias 6 · 3⤊ 6⤋
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2016-12-15 04:29:59 · answer #2 · answered by trip 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why aren't the editors for the New York Times and Washington Post in jail for printing classified information?
2007-03-20 05:03:39 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
Who do you arrest? The agents in the field, their superiors, the director of the FBI, or whoever was commanding the FBI to gather the data? If you say all of the above, then who watches out for us while our agents are serving prison terms?
2007-03-20 05:36:00 · answer #4 · answered by Wee Bit Naughty 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Judicial Immunity
2007-03-20 05:08:06 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
The 4th Amendment protects someone from "unreasonable" searches and seizures. Spying on someone who has ties to terrorism, is totally reasonable.
2007-03-21 01:07:26 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/search/display.html?terms=obstruction+of+justice&url=/uscode/html/uscode18/usc_sup_01_18_10_I_20_73notes.html
Arrest Pelosi and Hastent FIRST. FBI had court order
1509 1510 applies to BOTH
1.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/24/AR2006052400350.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/05/24/politics/main1649648.shtml
2007-03-20 05:40:51 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Ditto! Media is all about "sensationalism" and what makes the company money! You could read news articles from mutiple sources and STILL not get the straight accurate factual report!
2007-03-20 05:37:54 · answer #8 · answered by KC V ™ 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Because the matter is still being investigated.
Why don't you at least wait for the investigation to be finished before you start arresting people who may have had nothing to do with it?
2007-03-20 05:24:08 · answer #9 · answered by MikeGolf 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
There's nothing new,because it doesn't work
this way in Washington DC,do you remember George Tenet ?will, he was
the director of the CIA before,during,and
After the invasion of Iraq and he was a complete failure ,but he didn't get fired !!
He was rewarded with a medal !
do you believe it ? it happened !!!!!!!
2007-03-20 05:21:01 · answer #10 · answered by massimo 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋