The Justice Department’s inspector general told a committee of angry House members yesterday that the FBI may have violated the law or government policies as many as 3,000 times since 2003 as agents secretly collected the telephone, bank and credit card records of U.S. citizens and foreign nationals residing here.
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March 22, 2007
Felony convictions have also resulted in 18-month prison sentences for two employees of the Cuyahoga BOE as a result of what the county prosecutor in the case calls the “rigging” of the outcome in the recount following the 2004 presidential election.
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March 22, 2007
An Australian man pleaded guilty to breaking into eBay and a local bank to steal AU$42,000 (about $34,000), in a case that demonstrates the problem of account takeovers on the auction site.
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March 22, 2007
Without the buyers and sellers who make up the ebay community, there simply wouldn’t be an ebay. So if the current nonchalant attitude prevails then we could be witnessing the beginning of the end for the e-Monolith. It’s end would of course be fine as long as we have an alternative that isn’t out to shaft us at every turn.
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March 22, 2007