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Judge Orders FBI to Turn Over Thousands of Patriot Act Abuse Documents

Ryan Singel writes on Threat Level:

Just one day after news that an internal audit found that FBI agents abused a Patriot Act power more than 1000 times, a federal judge ordered the agency Friday to begin turning over thousands of pages of documents related to the agency's use of a powerful, but extremely secretive investigative tool that can pry into telephone and internet records.

The order for monthly document releases commencing July 5 came in response to a government sunshine request by a civil liberties group, which sued in April over the FBI's foot-dragging on its broad request.

posted by Fergie @ 6/15/2007 04:44:00 PM