There are no scandalous examples of the White House using the Patriot Act powers for political purposes or of individual agents using them for personal gain. The Justice IG report released Thursday, for example, examined some 50,000 National Security Letters issued in 2006 to see whether the FBI misused that specialized kind of warrantless subpoena. The IG found some continuing abuse of the power, but blamed it for the most part on sloppiness and bad management, not nefarious intent.
[From Do Americans Care About Big Brother? - TIME]
See? Just a little sloppy, is all.
"Pity America's poor civil libertarians," says TIME, reporting the good news.
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