The FBI Used Post-Its To Break The Law

You Just Can't Make This Kind Of Stuff Up!

FBI Director Robert S. Mueller ("Like Romy, Robert" ..."like, yea, Michelle")

Apparently "Romy and Michele" aren't the only ones that lied about Post-Its. Based on a report released today, the FBI didn't even bother to use "Exigent Letters" in some cases when breaking the law, in obtaining Americans' phone records they weren't entitled to view. They used Post-Its.

Like, the FBI loves Post-Its, for sure!

It's amazing that violating the privacy of many meant as little to them as a Post-It. This is something you'd expect from a small government agency with no computer printer.

The movie "Romy and Michele's High School Reunion"

Post-Its? (shakes head). Well, it shouldn't be a surprise, I guess, since the head of the FBI, Robert S. Mueller, has the intelligence level of Romy and Michelle.

FBI Replaced Legal Process with Post-It Notes to Obtain Phone Records

January 20th, 2010 - Today, the DOJ's Office of the Inspector General issued a long awaited report on the FBI's use of 'exigent letters' to obtain phone records. While the report has many interesting and shocking revelations, three issues jumped out at us: Post-it note process; a secret new legal theory; and the need for accountability for the telecoms.

Post-it notes. Seriously.

While we had known since 2007 that the FBI improperly sought phone records by falsely asserting emergency circumstances, the report shows the situation inside the FBI's Communications Analysis Unit (CAU) degenerated even further, sometimes replacing legal process with sticky notes...

We urge Congress to investigate both the FBI and telecoms, including asking the hard questions to AT&T and Verizon about their complicity in an illegal program to obtain phone records with post-it notes.

http://www.eff.org