Feel Free to Talk About Your Drug Deals Over the Phone!

[Tuckerfan]

FBI “forgets” to pay it’s phone bills, so it’s wiretaps get cut off.

Eavesdropping operations on criminal and terrorist suspects by the Federal Bureau of Investigation have collapsed because the bureau has failed to pay its telephone bills.

A report by the US Department of Justice revealed that the unpaid costs of wiretaps came to $66,000 (£33,000) in one FBI field office alone.

An audit by Glenn Fine, the inspector general, discovered that a wiretap used in an operation conducted under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act - the government’s most sensitive covert investigations - “was halted due to untimely payment” in at least one case.

Buncha wankers. J Edgar Hoover wouldn’t put up with this kind of shit.

[Barrington]

Is it just me, or did the same thing happen in the UK a week or two ago?