See, the FBI has just gone ahead and decided that they can search databases and people's trash even without any "firm suspicion" that they have done anything wrong. Why? Because, ya know, 9/11 or something... Oh and they don't have to make a record of it because, hell, who likes paperwork, amirite?
Don't worry though, just because the FBI was found abusing its powers in the very recent past, this article axplains that they fixed that problem by, just like basically, fixing it, or "taking steps" or some such bullshit... Oh and that's according to the FBI. Doesn't that make you feel better?
If it doesn't (pussy), you also shouldn't worry because, as the article explains, the government might go through your trash even though they're investigating someone else entirely.
Agents have asked for that power in part because they want the ability to use information found in a subject’s trash to put pressure on that person to assist the government in the investigation of others.
Yes, ok, that sounds exactly (and by "exactly" I mean only in that "classic-textbook-definition" sort of way) like blackmail, but, look... uh... TERRORISTS! Ok? Do you get that?!
If wasting resources, avoiding any records and thus accountability, harassing and spying on millions of Americans and the obvious, inevitable abuse that follows, helps us to lock up 10 people, and then one of those guys was probably, almost highly likely to have one day hurt a little girl and her puppy, then it was worth it!
Got that, pinko? Let's just not even have an open discussion about this either, ok? Why do you hate freedom?
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