Sunday October 12, 2008, 10:38 am
That dandy little quote above comes from our beloved Attorney General, MightKill Mucousy. We knew these new broad powers were coming - and now they are a reality.

From the article, that you really should read in its entirety:
'The new road map allows investigators to recruit informants, employ physical surveillance and conduct interviews in which agents disguise their identities in an effort to assess national security threats. FBI agents could pursue each of those steps without any single fact indicating a person has ties to a terrorist organization.'

Die Regierung ist Oberst!

Sunday October 12, 2008, 10:41 am
Damn the captions are so tiny....the read, from left to right:

"Were you able to interrogate her with the new mid-link spell?"

"Did the new psychotropic herbs produce any answers?"

"What do you mean, she's just a librarian?"

Sunday October 12, 2008, 11:05 am
that's "mind-link" spell....geeeze.....old age strikes again

Sunday October 12, 2008, 11:06 am
E-YA! Bilagaanas!

Sunday October 12, 2008, 11:12 am
How do you suppose this is all going to turn out?! Seems 'they' are getting quite desperate. Reminds me of dogs chasing their tails. Curious to see how this will be in a year's time... Thanks Cate, another great article.

Sunday October 12, 2008, 11:12 am
Damn,sneaky little BFI They can't get it straight anyway does not matter it is Librarian or Octogenarian. They have the need to know.The FBI is just something that was. I think they need to worry more about the other outside the country

Sunday October 12, 2008, 11:13 am
Thanks,Cate,

Sunday October 12, 2008, 11:15 am
Homeland security at it's finest! One day, they will spy on the wrong person and this will end up in front of the Supreme court and "Homeland Security" will be a done deal, as in finis. They already restored habeas corpus because it was unconstitutional. The rest will go down in flames too.

Sunday October 12, 2008, 12:12 pm
Once again, we have here the old
Governmental Double-Standard:
It's against the law to lie to them
(a Supreme Court decision some years
ago ruled that it IS against the law
to refuse to identify yourself to law
enforcement), but if they want to lie
to us, to We The People, then there seems
to be no problem.
I'm going to quit typing now,
before I begin to swear.
Thanks, Cate.
noted.

Sunday October 12, 2008, 12:35 pm
Gestapo = KGB = FBI

Sunday October 12, 2008, 12:57 pm
i'm like scrappy dog let me at em let me at em

Sunday October 12, 2008, 12:59 pm
Noted with disgust. Thanks Cate.

Sunday October 12, 2008, 1:05 pm
With intelligence leaks within their own ranks perhaps they should start with new guidelines for themselves...
Homeland security...right ! Let's see so far this week we've heard how they listen in on "pillow talk" between our deployed troops as they make calls to wives/girlfriends that they haven't seen for as much as 12-15 months ..snicker, snicker..what ever get's you off boys.Meanwhile the score is Pirates 2, unsuspecting ships 0. While they are busy recruiting scum to find evidence wouldn't it be a kick if a pirate ship started doing hits on our shorelines..Maybe the FBI should sign up for Pirateering 101..heck a few swords, eye patches and head gear should be affordable in their budget..heck of alot greener than the DU our gov't used.

Sunday October 12, 2008, 1:12 pm
Noted. It just keeps piling up, doesn't it? And it reeks to high heaven! This is a fine read, Cate, although it has made my blood pressure elevated as my blood boils, yet again.

Sunday October 12, 2008, 1:26 pm
Oh go ahead, Tim.....swear! I've been doing it all morning and most of the afternoon already!

Wow...I made it through a whole two sentences without typing a cuss word...I am so proud of moi.

*&%$

Sunday October 12, 2008, 1:53 pm
Since they have all this power, guess I better work on making my neighbors like me because I understand they still "ask the neighbors". Only a bunch of mine speak no English, so better bring a Spanish translator, boys. While you're at it, note that the back of my house needs to be scraped and painted, and the chain link fence is looking beat-up from being there since 1950. Spying doesn't pay the way it used to; they're down to minimum wage. HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! Thanks, Ombretta. Hi, Tim, thanks for tuning in today...

Sunday October 12, 2008, 2:35 pm
"conduct interviews and monitor the movement of people who may possess useful information on subjects of general interest to American policymakers, such as a foreign government's oil exports."

HMMMMMMMMMMM......Well now...let me think......who are the OIL EXPERTS??

Sunday October 12, 2008, 2:47 pm
Noted while muttering obscenities and calling people names

Sunday October 12, 2008, 2:56 pm
We are not too far from the:

-------- SALEM WITCH HUNTS!!!---------

Happy Halloween???

Signature:
That which is to follow, comes from that which has gone before: http://tinyurl.com/3fs5m8

Sunday October 12, 2008, 3:17 pm
I had once met with directors of PDVSA and hence may have "useful knowledge" of Venezuela's oil exports. Does that mean I too get my own personal gestapo agent to follow me around?

Sunday October 12, 2008, 3:41 pm
I'd like to interrogate the interrogators.

Sunday October 12, 2008, 4:02 pm
Don't ye gin wurrin yerseaf silly na

This is the FBI we are talking about the initials the stand for Frigging Borderline Intelegence...and now folks they are going to disguise themselves and you know what they won't even recognise each other...so they will end up investigating every suspicious person eg themselves...yep that's what will happen a bit like a dog chasing its tail one person said..I say it will be the organisational equivilent of putting their head up their own butts...eventually they will dissappear and form little black holes of nothingness.

And it case you are worried about them reading what I have read I am not...as I have utilised several words with more than one sylible...they will spend the next thirty years trying to decyfer it..especially with the very Scottish Speelling. Haf fun boys.'an mine's a pint ta very much.

Sunday October 12, 2008, 4:10 pm
Here, Terrie, I bagged ya a Repugnican for dinner...there now, feel better? LMAO

Sunday October 12, 2008, 4:15 pm
ROFLMAO David...."won't even recognize each other"...priceless!

Sunday October 12, 2008, 4:56 pm
It should remind the rest of us of the good old days of the civil rights movement.

Sunday October 12, 2008, 5:20 pm
Robert -that is exactly what I was thinking.

Thanks Ombretta

Sunday October 12, 2008, 5:30 pm
What's next, precogs and thought police?

Sunday October 12, 2008, 5:50 pm
Well, we already have the retina recognition in some places...so why not, Locan? (references to Minority Report)

Sunday October 12, 2008, 6:24 pm

They tell you what they plan on doing,and if no-one notices or gets upset,.they do it.Try to pretend you have a brain for a minute or two,.. BEFORE .. They Come & Get,YOU.

Sunday October 12, 2008, 6:34 pm
So just by a show of hands who's really surprised by this?

The power still lies with the people as we are the majority. We know it and they know it. That's why they concoct bully tactics such as this....

Sunday October 12, 2008, 7:13 pm
The problem DG is when you have stupid people with authoritative powers, so often it is how the innocent that suffer most and innocent people die.

Sunday October 12, 2008, 8:38 pm

LOL! Just what we need. Idiots in costume chasing down possible
topics of general interest to American policymakers. Well.....we
need to do something with our money.

Thanks Cate.

Sunday October 12, 2008, 9:50 pm
They had this ability long before the Patriot Act and the Military Commissions Act. Edgar Hoover - in a drag(net) - kept files on everyone his computers could handle.

Monday October 13, 2008, 12:46 am
Remember, boys and girls, NEVER talk to the FBI. Just slam the door in their cute little faces. Don't even verify that they have the right person. You have the right to tell them to buzz the hell off.

Anything that you say WILL be twisted and used to haul you before a grand jury if it suits their purposes-----and that can mean being locked up for many months while the kangaroo court (the technical term for "grand jury") tries to figure out how to keep you there permanently.

Monday October 13, 2008, 12:47 am
(It's also really fun to slam the door in their faces....)

Monday October 13, 2008, 1:18 am
Yee Gadzooks they must all be terrified! They've realized that the whole criminal fiasco that has hoodwinked the people, has slipped and the blinders are off. So their shorts are in a twist wondering what the people "might" do in retaliation! Hence bring out the Big Guns, sheesh what a bunch of cowards. Get their fingers stuck in the cookie jar and now they are blaming the people who have been kind enough to pay their wages. You know what folks, if you pay freakin' taxes in 2009 I give up on you. What can they take from you now??? They already have everything. Start Community Barter systems, go back to what the pioneers did. Scratch each other's backs instead of the "establishment, because this time the establishment HAS gone too far.

Monday October 13, 2008, 1:24 am
Thanks Cate for the interesting topics, now I can go to sleep and dream about my turkey day at Swiss Chalet, ya it's Canadian Thanksgiving and our dollar is back down to about .85 cents to the Us$1.00. Hey if you can spare the fuel, jump in the car and come over the border and do some shopping, good turkeys to hold you over til next month.

Monday October 13, 2008, 1:27 am
I recently recieved this in my email box after I sent a letter to Chief Hawthorne about an animal abuse case...THIS EMAIL HAS BEEN FLAGGED AS SENT FROM A MEMBER OF A GROUP IDENTIFIED BY THE FBI AS A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION. IT HAS BEEN DELETED WITHOUT BEING READ....(Big Brother is watching!) And so it begins...

Monday October 13, 2008, 2:06 am
ORWELL WOULD TURN OVER IN HIS GRAVE HIS 1984 IS NOT AS BAD AS IT REALLY IS I TOLD YOU ALL THE FBI FORCES ALL INTERNET CO'S TO PROVIDE A PORT ESP FOR THEM TO BUG ALL A COMPANYS SERVERS AND DO YOU ALL THINK WE HAVE A DICTATOR YET ?? i DONT KNOW WHAT YOU CALL THIS MEESS BUT IT IS FASCISM NOW SOON TO BE REPLACED WITH WHAT? THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTHLESS TO US NOW THEY DONT FOLLOW IT AND THEY HAVE ALREADY STARTED PURGING PPL OFF THE VOTING ROLES JUST FOR AN ADDRESS CHANGE USE TO BE IF YOU SHOWED UP WITH ID YOU VOTED I CANT WAIT TO SEE WHAT ITS LIKE THIS TIME I AM VOTING FOR NADER I DONT KNOW HOW WE WRITE IN PPL ON THESE MACHINES IN TEXAS WE SOLD TO A BUNCH OF STATES ONE OF BUSHES FRIENDS COMPANY MAKES THEM. I THINK THEY WENT TO THE MACHINES TO KEEP PPL OFF THE ROLLS TO BE ABLE TO VOTE FOR THEM CHRIS

Monday October 13, 2008, 5:00 am
I cannot say that I am shocked and surprised. Disgusted, yes, but not shocked. Just cannot wait to see what they pull out of their butts next.... Should be interesting to say the least. Insert explicatives as you feel the applicable.lol.

Monday October 13, 2008, 6:20 am
Actually, considering all of the rabid home grown terrorists that McCain is pulling out of the woodwork, this may not be a bad idea; although if overdone, may be a cause to deconstruct the dirty little Bush machine.

Monday October 13, 2008, 6:44 am
I am not suprised . . . They had to catch up to the CIAs long standing reputation.

Monday October 13, 2008, 6:48 am
Its not a particulary new for goverment to play/ abuse the law but this lot. If the law is an Ass, bu$h would give it fangs and claws - A good example of why a police state attitude is a danger to society, not a help is the autrocity of the De Menezes case, but what to do ????

Monday October 13, 2008, 6:53 am
A number of years ago I called the FBI because my phone was being tapped by my drug dealing neighbors. The response was "what makes you think its illegal?"

That was in New Mexico. I just moved from there because of the corruption.

Monday October 13, 2008, 8:00 am
Thanks Cate....a tad bit tough and stringy but hey....that's what... meat tenderizer ...is for, ney? heh heh heh

You know, Cate, I get waaaaaaaay to much...amusement...out of "Snipe" hunting....(EG)

Monday October 13, 2008, 11:04 am
This used to be a consiracy theory??? LOL

Right in your face now.. hmmm.

Monday October 13, 2008, 12:12 pm
Bush Wacks Facist America! I am an indie filmmaker and a Constitution person. I have of lately spoken to a family member of mine who is still with Bush. He told me the ACLU were anti-American and since he is a minister that if we vote democratic and same sex marriages are okay that he will be put in prison for preaching against homosexuality. I responded back to him with articles, videos, etc. He responded back to me that He was scared of Obama. I was in awe of his response. The laws that have been passed by the Bush Wack regime are the ones that will put people in prison. This is unconstitutional and the laws have to be repealed. This is not the same country that I was raised in. Sad!

Monday October 13, 2008, 1:47 pm
---and we were called paranoid lol!

Monday October 13, 2008, 4:51 pm
Well they HAD to expand their "guidelines" - mainly because only a few thousand have actual Links to the Bu$h/Cheney Administration! Real Terrorists Outside the Bu$h-League are pretty hard to find...;)

Monday October 13, 2008, 7:13 pm
..ruffa..snuffa...gggrrr...(mubbling under my breath..again)...of all the ..your tax dollars at work...it as itelligent as all the other excuses to invade your privacy, self respect and common decency..might as well just put a sign back on my door that I haven't used in a few years when we lived in the city..."No Solicitation..And if Your Selling God...She Isn't for Sale...." except I'll just be even more creative again...*S*..."No Solicitation..And if Your Selling Me the Government ....Take to China...They'll by if Cheap"....ruffa..snuffa...gggrrr...

Monday October 13, 2008, 9:43 pm
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Monday October 13, 2008, 9:49 pm
Well, I'll be dipped. Maybe they've been listening to me for a while. Can't get my CNN2JunkieNews, at best sporadic, can't get the idiots at another site, that won't be mentioned here, Mary N., to give me another password, because they can't make up thier minds whether my email addr. is valid.
Boy, I hope they keep listening, maybe we can GET SOMETHING DONE AROUND HERE!!! Do ya'll suppose Duh bya gets to listen too, SURE HOPE SO
Plse. note all caps are shouting!!!!! Just in case they didn't here me.

Monday October 13, 2008, 9:59 pm
and so it goes...

Monday October 13, 2008, 11:13 pm
Once again may I suggest everybody join the ACLU.
http://www.aclu.org/

Monday October 13, 2008, 11:34 pm
Get your free "I'm a Constitution Voter" today:
http://action.aclu.org/bumper_sticker

Tuesday October 14, 2008, 8:32 am
I think they should investagate Bu$h/Cheney!! That would certinly keep them busy for a few minute. Besides they are the real terror network....

Tuesday October 14, 2008, 9:36 am
Please sign we need just 46 more signatures!
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/approve-vision-first-

Tuesday October 14, 2008, 1:34 pm
MAN I HOPE THEY DON'T WATER BOARD ME AND MAKE ME TALK. NOTED WITH DISGUST FOR THE LAWS WE ARE FORCED TO OBEY.

Tuesday October 14, 2008, 7:12 pm
What a bunch of BS...F-------- Government.

Gorilly

Tuesday October 14, 2008, 7:21 pm
OH!GOrilly Girl I think I'll stuff a big bunch of Nannaanrs at you.You are right thought.

Wednesday October 15, 2008, 12:43 pm
Noted...we should all watch what we say on here now....we could all be monitered for the sake of a secure America!!!! It's patriotic to be spyed on! *sarcasm* Someone shoot me. *not sarcasm*

Thursday October 16, 2008, 11:32 am
Work with the ACLU to resolve this new threat.