"Dear President Cheney" - DOJ Recognizes The Truth

[kpete]

Dear President Cheney: Your Numbers Are Nicely Fudged
By: looseheadprop Wednesday May 7, 2008 6:30 pm

The Honorable Richard B. Cheney
President
United States Senate
Washington, D.C. 20510

Dear Mr. President:

The above is a direct quote from a letter

http://epic.org/privacy/terrorism/2007fisa-ltr.pdf sent on Department of Justice Stationary and signed by Brian A. Benczkoski, Principal Assistant Deputy Attorney General.



Yeah, I did a double take. Then a triple take. Then I read that third line in the address more slowly--and after a brief interlude to defibrillate my heart--went on to read the rest of the letter.

It's a report of how many FISA warrants and National Security letters were applied for and issued. You can read the numbers of yourself. What is noteworthy about the letter (aside from the heartstopping effect of reading the address too quickly) is this:

In March 2007, the Inspector General of the Department of Justice released a report regarding the FBI's use of NSLs. One of the Inspector General's findings was that several factors concerning the manner in which NSLs are tracked in the FBI's database have resulted in inaccuracies in numbers reported to Congress in recent reports.

--snip--

.....the statistics for 2006 should be considered approximate.

--snip--

.....the total numbers could include instances in which individual was counted more than once.


more at:
http://firedoglake.com/2008/05/07/dear-president-cheney-your-numbers-are-nicely-fudged/

[MadMaddie]

1. More crimes committed.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Not quite so fast and I am not one to defend the Chenney

but.... the VEEP serves as the President of the Senate and can be addressed that way

Just doesn't happen too often...