{"id":101,"date":"2008-01-10T17:18:02","date_gmt":"2008-01-10T22:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ngc2632.com\/blog\/?p=101"},"modified":"2008-01-10T17:19:07","modified_gmt":"2008-01-10T22:19:07","slug":"your-tax-dollars-not-at-work-for-once","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/everything\/your-tax-dollars-not-at-work-for-once\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Tax Dollars NOT At Work, for once."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ap.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5jgPRrAOa7_9-xd_LD8Ogt3ZXZ8JgD8U34BGG1\"><strong>FBI Wiretaps Dropped Due to Unpaid Bills<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>By LARA JAKES JORDAN<\/em><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Telephone companies cut off FBI wiretaps used to eavesdrop on suspected criminals because of the bureau&#8217;s repeated failures to pay phone bills on time, according to a Justice Department audit released Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>And at least once, a wiretap used in a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act investigation \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the highly secretive and sensitive cases that allow eavesdropping on suspected terrorists or spies \u00e2\u20ac\u201d &#8220;was halted due to untimely payment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We also found that late payments have resulted in telecommunications carriers actually disconnecting phone lines established to deliver surveillance results to the FBI, resulting in lost evidence,&#8221; according to the audit by Inspector General Glenn A. Fine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Awesome.<\/p>\n<p>They won&#8217;t cut off wiretaps because it&#8217;s <em>illegal<\/em> or <em>unconstitutional<\/em>, but they&#8217;ll sure as hell cut &#8217;em off for nonpayment of bills.<\/p>\n<p>If your client is willing to use your services to participate in a criminal act, what makes you think they&#8217;ll actually pay you for the privilege?<\/p>\n<p>[*]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FBI Wiretaps Dropped Due to Unpaid Bills By LARA JAKES JORDAN WASHINGTON (AP) \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Telephone companies cut off FBI wiretaps used to eavesdrop on suspected criminals because of the bureau&#8217;s repeated failures to pay phone bills on time, according to a Justice Department audit released Thursday. [&#8230;] And at least once, a wiretap used in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rL5j-1D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}