Rattle wrote:
] Decius wrote:
] ] UPDATE: There are some very interesting posts flying
] ] around about this guy being an ebay scam artist:

Sorry I forgot to turn off my bold there. You might want to fix that in your post...

] The Patriot Act being used is very disturbing. We were told
] that would not be used in domestic criminal matters. That at
] the very least implies that they could have gotten his ISP
] finical records another way, and they were just doing their
] records harvesting in the easiest way available (which I don't
] like). I would like more details on this.

Well, they did nothing wrong. There are certain provisions in the Patriot act that have to do with terrorism. Others don't. The provision in question doesn't. Whats important is that politically the Patriot act was sold as an anti-terrorism tool, and yet we see it here being used in a context that has nothing at all to do with it's purported justification. Politically there is room to be angry about this. Technically its not illegal, but its the sort of thing you ask Senators about. Why did they allow this law to be used in this context?

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