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...their homes have been sold in foreclosure. Clearly, lots of people got put into bad mortgages by sleazeball operators. But didn't ordinary homeowners get greedy too? That's a completely a diversionary tactic- how greedy can you get that you'd want a roof over you head? The FBI has said that 80% of mortgage fraud has been instituted by banks, not the people, not the home buyer; that's an FBI's statistic. The No. 1 cause of bankruptcies is medical bills. The mass media has done a pretty good job of placing blame on lower income people...
...would also leave in place the ability of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to compel document disclosure, but would limit that power to the records of people connected to terrorism or espionage. It would make numerous other changes, such as limiting use of National Security Letters - a power the FBI has misused in the past, according to the Inspector General of the Justice Department - to force document disclosure and lifting telecommunication companies' immunity from civil claims arising from the Bush Administration's warrantless wiretaps. (Read about the Bush Administration and the Patriot...
...FBI • extreme displeasure of with New York City detectives who blew the cover on a major counterterrorism investigation...
...Sept. 12 near a small family cemetery in a remote patch of the Daniel Boone National Forest in Clay County, about 18 miles south of the county seat of Manchester. According to published reports, Sparkman died of asphyxiation. Kentucky state police, who are in charge of the investigation, with FBI assistance, have not determined whether the death was a homicide, suicide or accident, but an assistant director at the Census Bureau's southern office says the police have told them it is an apparent homicide. (See pictures of this summer's tea-party protests...
Hatfield says he's waiting to see where the FBI investigation leads before drawing any conclusions, but he notes that circumstantial evidence suggests Sparkman may have been killed because of his tangential association with the Federal Government. "It doesn't matter if you're a lowly postal worker or a law-enforcement official or a prosecutor or judge," he said. "History shows us people exact revenge wherever they can get it when they're angry...