points by cucumber3732842 2 days ago | 0 comments
All the big federal law enforcement agencies engage in various degrees of unconstitutional surveillance. The fact that the FBI also gets a lot of warrants as part of its job doesn't change that. The FBI also did it first and has been doing it since it's inception. Heck they named their HQ after the guy who really took it to the next level.
[–] TheCoelacanth 2 days ago
[–] cucumber3732842 2 days ago
I'll give incidental law breaking a pass but dubiously legal if not illegal surveillance has been a core activity of the FBI from day 1-ish.
Secret courts on the other hand undermine the entire concept of rule of law and we should have absolutely zero tolerance for them.