Via Billy
Recently unsealed records
reveal a much more extensive secret relationship than previously known
between the FBI and Best Buy's Geek Squad, including evidence the agency
trained company technicians on law-enforcement operational tactics,
shared lists of targeted citizens and, to covertly increase surveillance
of the public, encouraged searches of computers even when unrelated to a
customer's request for repairs.
To
sidestep the U.S. Constitution's prohibition against warrantless
invasions of private property, federal prosecutors and FBI officials
have argued that Geek Squad employees accidentally find and report, for
example, potential child pornography on customers' computers without any
prodding by the government. Assistant United States Attorney M. Anthony
Brown last year labeled allegations of a hidden partnership as "wild
speculation." But more than a dozen summaries of FBI memoranda filed
inside Orange County's Ronald Reagan Federal Courthouse this month in
USA v. Mark Rettenmaier contradict the official line.
None of the government overreach will end until US attorneys and US judges start going to jail for folding, spindling, and mutilating the law. indyjonesouthere
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