Former FBI Agent Warns of Government Spying Abuse

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Former FBI Agent Warns of Government Spying Abuse
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by Rick Nagin

CLEVELAND - Surveillance policies now used by the FBI and other domestic intelligence agencies are "totally un-American and against the values Americans hold dear," Michael German, a former undercover agent, told a forum sponsored by the Cleveland Council on American Islamic Relations here Saturday.

Speaking to 150 at the Islamic Center of Cleveland, German said current guidelines allow federal agencies to spy, obtain private records and recruit informants against virtually all Americans even when "there is no factual basis to suspect they are engaged in illegal activity."

German, who resigned in protest at these abuses after 16 years with the FBI, joined the American Civil Liberties Union in 2006 and serves as its national security policy counsel.

The Patriot Act, enacted after the 9/11 terror attacks, wiped out strict guidelines governing the FBI, he said, "and established a regime of suspicionless surveillance." According to policies laid down by Attorney General John Ashcroft in 2002, "you only needed to show a group might possibly commit a crime" to place it under surveillance, German said.

The American people, German said, "are tired of the state of emergency we have been under" and support stricter guidelines for spying sought by the ACLU.

It's kind of sad of the state of affairs this country is in. What are your views and opinions?
 

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@dandelion,

which is obviously why they dont like wikileaks.

Of course! They don't want to be caught doing things that are completely against our values, especially when these things are completely illegal as well.

Unfortunately, they don't have any desire to stop doing what they are doing, which in this case is spying on us; after all knowledge is power, and bestowing upon themselves the power to collect any knowledge on anybody at anytime, bestows upon themselves enormous power and control.

Instead, they want to make sure that we are not allowed and unable to know what they are doing -- after all knowledge is power; depriving us of our knowledge deprives us of our power.
 
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