Chris Djiongouros – Thoughts on Politics & Law

Is the US a police state?

FBI agents seeking phone records used ’startling’ methods

FBI agents seeking telephone records demanded information from phone companies in a variety of “startling” and illicit methods, including e-mail and post-it notes, in an “egregious breakdown” of safeguards and oversight, the Justice Department’s inspector general reported Wednesday. The long-awaited investigative report describes numerous lapses by FBI agents seeking material through more than 700 emergency letters [...]

Iraq outraged by Blackwater case dismissal

Iraq has criticized the US court’s dismissal of all charges against five Blackwater security guards accused of killing seventeen Iraqi civilians in 2007. The country’s government has vowed to pursue the case itself. Blackwater contractors – a US private military company – was sent to Iraq to assist the US army in 2003. In 2007, 17 Iraqi [...]