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Inspector General Report: FBI Routinely Abused Access to Private Communications
Loaded on June 15, 2023
by Eike Blohm, MD
published in Criminal Legal News
July, 2023, page 44
Filed under:
FBI,
Police State-Surveillance,
Abuse of Position of Trust,
Official Report.
Location:
United States of America.
by Eike Blohm, MD
A recent Department of Justice (“DOJ”) Inspector General report found that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”) routinely sidesteps regulations of electronic surveillance and essentially deliberately misinterprets DOJ guidelines.
Edgar Hoover was the first director of the FBI and was notorious for amassing personal and private ...
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