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DOJ Watchdog Investigating The Abuse Of Muslim Federal Inmates

Ryan J. Reilly | February 8, 2011, 11:40AM

The Justice Department's Inspector General is investigating two incidents involving Bureau of Prisons employees who allegedly abused federal prisoners who were Muslim in the second half of 2010 due to their choice of religion -- and has referred 16 other incidents to BOP for further investigation.

Between July 1 and Dec. 31 of last year, the Inspector General processed 1,293 new civil rights or civil liberties complaints and found 1,072 of them did not fall within the OIG's jurisdiction or did not warrant further investigation. Most of the incidents they did examine in the report revolve around the alleged abuse of Muslim prisoners.

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FBI

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.