Officials said they could not be sure of the scope of the violations but suggested they could be more widespread, though not deliberate. In nearly a quarter of the case files Inspector General Glenn A. Fine reviewed, he found previously unreported potential violations.

I'm trying to remember how I said they'd use the PATRIOT act... let's see... Oh, here I am in June of 2005,

Why am I opposed to things like TSA and PATRIOT? Because they've demonstrated time and again they don't pay any attention to minor niceties like what's legal. Add to that the fact that they are notoriously bad at safeguarding that sort of information and you have a recipe for being a bigger threat than the one they are trying to stop.

Adding sugar to urine doesn't make it stop being urine. They took this, and managed to abuse even its incredibly open-ended ability. That's not easy. It needs to go.

Frequent Errors In FBI's Secret Records Requests - washingtonpost.com