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WaPo: FBI Repeatedly Broke Law In Phone Record Searches

Justin Elliott | January 19, 2010, 9:27AM

Robert S. Mueller III

In a preview of what will apparently be a scorching Inspector General report, the Washington Post today details how the FBI illegally collected more than 2,000 U.S. phone records over several years during the Bush Administration.

The crux of the lawbreaking was the FBI's use of so-called "exigent circumstances letters" to get phone records. That's was a post-9/11 tool created to allow quick searches of phone records in case of emergency.

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